Who raised the most money from regular folks like you and me?

[mdmc]

I would love to see some political scientist or economist look over the first quarter fundraising data.
I would like to know who raised the most money from people that earn less then $100,000.00 per year.
I would like to know which candidate raised the most money from regular people. When you take away corporation donations aka bribes, and you take away the donations of the wealthiest Americans (those households earning over $100,000.00 per year), who stands at the top?

I bet less then one million dollars was raised by regular people. Does anyone know?:shrug:

[stewert]

1. Obama..........

Obama had 100,000 donations of $100 or less in the 1st quarter of 2007, Hillary had 50,000 donations of $100 or less.

So clearly the people who are not so rich are donating more to Obama.

[mdmc]

2. Those are just small donations

I am looking for donations from people with small incomes. A billionaire could donate $50.00 .

You are on the right track - small donations are the key to finding who the grassroots supports. Dean raised mad cash in tiny donations...

In the two examples that you give, Obama and Hillary, they got under 100,000 from small donations, yet raised millions from somewhere else. That is so sad, imho.

peace and low stress to you, and thank you for your reply...:kick:

[KoKo]

5. I'd think Kucinich would have alot of small donations. He did when he ran last time

but I don't know how to check his current contributions.

[hfojvt]

6. Presumably that is 100,000 people not $100,000

but Obama's site says 'over 100,000 donors.' It does not say how many were under $100. Edwards said he had 40,000 donors and 80% of them were $100 or less. Trouble is, that he raised $14 million. 32,000 times $100 means at most $3.2 million came from small donors. The other $10.8 million came from the 8,000 people who donated more than $100. That's an average of $1,350 per donor. In my view, you have to be pretty flush to freely donate $1,350 to a candidate, especially for a primary.

[Old and In the Way]

3. It would certainly be interesting and I'm sure the candidates would love to know this as well.

When you donate, though, there's no really honest way to get that data. Not like you submit your tax returns with your contribution. Even if they asked for this data in general bracketed terms...there's no way to assure its reliability.

The closest I think you can come to answering your question is to evaluate the donations by funding off the internet. I think that's where the regular people are apt to have contributed. In that case, Obama clearly kicked this quarter.

[vireo]

4. Edwards also did well online

Since last Thursday, Edwards has collected about $540,000 online, according to a tally by ActBlue.com, which counts all the donations made through the Edwards Web site. It initially took Edwards two months to reach his early online fundraising goal of $1 million, and the campaign had languished just above that mark in the weeks before the cancer announcement.

By comparison, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton easily raised $1 million over the Internet in one week after her husband, former President Clinton, challenged donors at the end of February to help her campaign reach that goal.

Overall, Edwards has raised about $1.7 million online since launching his bid for the Democratic nomination at the end of December.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070328/D8O5E7Q02.html

[Old and In the Way]

7. I contributed 1/10,000th of that online total this past week.

plan to kick some more in the upcoming months...

[mdmc]

8. Is there a way separate corporate donors from citizens?

:kick:
Thanks for the clarification - I don't know how we would determine the income of donors...:kick: