Thursday, August 21, 2008

Where The Money Is Coming From

Where The Money Is Coming From

It is always interesting to see where the money is coming from in elections. To my surprise, Walt Minnick has raised quite a bit more money than Bill Sali (more than one million dollars vs. not quite $650,000 for Sali)--and when you look at where the money is coming from, it does suggest something about who wants Sali out.

If you go to OpenSecrets.org, they give a variety of ways to breaking out the data. The breakdown of in state vs. out of state money shows that, surprisingly enough for an incumbent, the majority of Sali's contributions are coming from Idahoans: 59%. Minnick's money is even more lopsidedly the other direction: 69% is coming from out of state.

The big individual contributors to Bill Sali are business PACs and the NRA. Minnick's big contributors seem to include a lot of labor unions--no surprise there. The breakdown by zipcode is quite interesting--and may not go over well with a lot of Idahoans.

Top Metro Areas

Walter Clifford Minnick (D)

Metro AreaTotal
BOISE CITY$137,848
NEW YORK$118,073
SEATTLE-BELLEVUE-EVERETT$44,100
PORTLAND-VANCOUVER, OR-WA$30,027
SAN FRANCISCO$20,200

William T. Sali (R)

Metro AreaTotal
BOISE CITY$29,600
WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV$12,100
CHICAGO$4,500
PHILADELPHIA, PA-NJ$2,300
BOSTON, MA-NH$2,300
CINCINNATI, OH-KY-IN$2,300

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