320 donators made max donation to Sanders. 16,720 made max donation to Clinton.

[joshcryer]

Click on "Itemized Individual Contributions," you can sort by "amount" and then click the page numbers. I counted 16 pages of Sanders donations of 2.7k or 5.4k (joint) after sorting by amount (20 results per page). I counted 836 pages of Clinton donations of 2.7k or 5.4k (joint).

Hillary Clinton: http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=P00003392&tabIndex=1

Bernie Sanders: http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=P60007168&tabIndex=3

O'Malley: http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=P60007671&tabIndex=3

I need help though, because I find this fascinating. I don't know much about doing excel stuff. Anyone want to download the .csv's and do a proper breakdown of the candidates? I don't give a crap about adding fuel to anyone's arguments (though I'm sure this will be controversial), I'm actually interested in seeing the distribution over a ranges of donations.

What would be most fascinating is to know how many people donated $100, $200, $300, etc.

[rjsquirrel]

1. Raw numbers mean what?

I saw elsewhere that 6% of HRC donors gave the max. Sounds a little different when you put it that way.


By the way the "max" is only a couple of thousand. I'm middle class (college prof) and I maxed out to Obama in 2007-8 in both primary and general, and in 2012 in the general. So implying "giving the max" is a 1% thing ain't true.

[joshcryer]

2. It's all in how you put it. 16k donators represent $45 million.

Clinton got 84,420 total donations from individuals or joint donating families (husband and wife).

That means 50% of her donations came from 18% of her donators.

I'm not trying to "imply" anything about the max donations. I think up to $500 isn't even controversial if it's over the span of several months (these donations are by donator, not by individual donation). That's why I would like to see a bell curve breakdown of how much people are donating total.

"Total" is key here. If I donated $25 a month for a year I'd have donated $300 total. That puts me in the "big leagues," even though I'd have simply forgone a couple of coffees at Starbucks and a few meals at McDonalds.

[rjsquirrel]

3. Bundling and Superpacs

are where the real money flows.

I think the individual limit for direct contributions should be increased a lot.

Believe it or not I've given to BOTH Bernie and Hillary this year, started out supporting Bernie, got freaked out by some of his supporters, and switched horses to Clinton.

Lol at family stuff too. My wife would be happy to write a 10k check to Hillary if we could legally. I have my eye on a fast new car. Lol.

[CorporatistNation]

14. Hillary "Victory" Fund Contributions Up To $700,000 from Each Individual Contributor!!!

Keep that in mind... No matter how you slice it, Hillary IS 100% Bought and Paid for by the Corporatist Oligarchy. Regarding Hillary, it is not the # of donors... What is the Median donation? THAT will tell the tale.

The 50% of her CA$H coming from 18% of her donors kind of rings the bell that I am talking about.

[daybranch]

4. Actually I think Hillary's campaign recognizes that visibility of large donors hurt its campaign

when voters are wanting an FDR type person who tells the rich they do not need to try to buy him or her. Hillary gets plenty of free advertising through outlandish attacks by republican candidates in main stream media and her responses. This is much less visible but just as helpful to her campaign. But many are realizing it now. Go Bernie!

[Thinkingabout]

5. Probably the higher number is because Hillary has more supporters.

[Betty Karlson]

7. Only when money equals support.

No wonder she is dragging her feet on abolishing Citizens United.

[yeoman6987]

12. Dragging her feet? Lol. She is not even in office.

Bernie tomorrow could offer up a bill. It might not go anywhere but at least he could try.

[Thinkingabout]

16. Dragging her feet? Not from the information I know about, try this link

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-citizens-united-constitutional-amendment

[CorporatistNation]

15. TOTAL Fucking NONSEMSE! Corporate Oligarchy Support IS The Reason ABSOLUTELY!

[Thinkingabout]

18. Where did you find information which you draw your conclusion.

Look at the polls, she has more supporters than Sanders, it may not be on DU but it does not halt the support of Hillary.

[tecelote]

6. Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton

Registered lobbyists brought in more than $2 million in fundraising for the Clinton campaign, recent filings show.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-17/lobbyists-for-monsanto-exxon-mobile-raise-money-for-hillary-clinton

[Thinkingabout]

19. Huummm, wonder how the lobbyists work, Sanders meets with lobbyists, what happens next?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. The difference in expenditures is amazing.

[NCTraveler]

9. Go Clinton!!!! Nt

[cali]

10. Exactly, hill campaign massages numbers.

[66 dmhlt]

11. Is this nonsense, gobbledygook, meaningless “math” supposed to impress us?

But as argle-bargle, it’s perfectly fine.

[MineralMan]

13. Math is hard, or so I hear.

[MohRokTah]

17. Clearly, Clinton is in the better position to raise the necessary funds for the GE.

Sanders could never survive the GE as he simply does not have the fund raising capabilities.

[Thinkingabout]

20. Exactly, more are giving in larger amounts to Hillary.

[uponit7771]

21. There are more people who support Clinton than Sanders, this is easy