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 Area Total 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 Area Total 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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