wealthy support Kerry more than Dean

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Fat-Cats
Who gets large contributions from the wealthy

1 George W Bush
2 Joseph I Lieberman
3 John F Kerry
4 John Edwards
5 Wesley Clark
6 Howard Dean
7 Alfred C Sharpton
8 Dennis J Kucinich

FatCats Index: avg income of donors + avg contribution size
MAX(avg income of donors) MAX(avg contribution size)


How do we calculate such figures as average income and average % income donated you ask? Cross-referencing (by zip code) each donor with census data about the area in which they live, we are able to estimate their income and thus these measures.

[FreeperSlayer]

1. And?

Are the implications a Kucinich/Sharpton ticket?

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

7. Kucinich/Sharpton?

I WISH!!! We'd win in a landslide.

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2. This makes sense

And it makes sense that the lower-income group would probably be helped more by the people they support than not.

Unfortunately - it also makes sense that the ones with more money from big contributors are more likely to win unless something really radical happens.

[slinkerwink]

3. exactly

:puke:

[bigtree]

4. Not in the last contest

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61946-2004Jan29.html

No, Kerry was not brought back by any establishment. He was brought back by rank-and-file Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.

And what's striking is that while Kerry had across-the-board support in Tuesday's primary here, his constituency was decidedly non-elitist compared with Dean's.

Dean and Kerry, according to the network exit polls, split the ballots of those who said they had postgraduate degrees.

But Kerry beat Dean by 2 to 1 among voters without college degrees.

Kerry won easily over Dean among union members and also among gun owners.

Dean carried well-to-do college towns such as Hanover and Keene.

But Kerry beat Dean decisively in the blue-collar bastions of Berlin and Manchester. In Berlin, for example, it was Kerry, 1,149, and Dean, 394.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. We'll take the support of everyone

It doesn't exclude anyone from participating in Kerry's campaign just because he has a lot of wealthy donors. Rich and poor are welcome. You may draw your own conclusions as to the meaning behind the ratios.
FYI 2 of our wealthiest Senators have endorsed Kerry- Kennedy and Corzine.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. and the point is...what?

That Kerry might manage to raise large sums of money to fight Bush?

HOW DARE HE!

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8. let's not get too far out of the Beltway

C'mon... people from all walks of life are Democrats. The dollars of the well-to-do who choose to give something back by helping to defeat Bush are MORE than welcome. Hillary made $8 million on her book deal alone; surely none of us reject the responsible use of money to further a good cause.

I'm not rich (as in Teresa Heinz Kerry's 800 million dollars rich) but I wouldn't mind being better off them I am now. So I'm not one to knock anyone solely because they have earned lots of money.