"Small Donors Flee House Republicans, Flock To House Democrats In First Quarter Of 2012" by Paul

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Bluementhal at the Huffinton Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/small-donors-fundraising_n_1500466.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Small Donors Flee House Republicans, Flock To House Democrats In First Quarter Of 2012

Paul Bluementhal at the Huffinton Post


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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) knows how to rile with rhetoric.

He has called the entire Congressional Progressive Caucus "members of the Communist Party," told Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) that she is "not a lady," and said that Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would "be very proud" of Democrats.

While liberals react with shock while creating lists documenting West's outrages, conservatives are opening their wallets.

In the first quarter of 2012, West raised more money from donors giving less than $200 in aggregate, than any other member of the House of Representatives. West's grassroots haul -- $857,265 out of a total $1.8 million -- came despite a big drop in small-donor giving to both House Republicans and the party's House campaign committee.

According to the first-quarter campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the House Republican candidates raised only 8 percent of their total campaign contributions from donors chipping in less than $200. That's down from 11.5 percent during the first quarter of 2010, which was the first quarter of the previous election year.

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1. So idiot West raised a lot,

but the rest of the repugs DIDN'T???

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2. The majority of the top receivers of small donations are Democratic.

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3. They have the Kochs and their ilk

So they don't need small donors.