Thursday, February 4, 2016

Follow the Money

That's what Deep Throat said to Bob Woodward in All the President's Men. Good advice. I'm certainly not a specialist on campaign contributions, but Hillary Clinton said regarding Wall Street that "They’re not giving me very much money now, I can tell you that much" after the exchange with Anderson Cooper (video available here), and I decided to check it out. This website provides some comparative data on Hillary and Bernie's donors [I'm assuming the data is accurate and the info I provide is based on that assumption].

Hilary gets 80% of her funds from large donors, compared to 26% from Large Individual contributors for Bernie. At the top of her list the Soros Fund, with more than 7 million, while for Bernie it's Alphabet Inc., with less than 100,000. Not sure how she claimed to receive 90% from small donors.

If we take "Wall Street" to mean the sum of Securities & Investment, Real Estate and Misc. Finance, then she received about 21.5 million from them in this electoral cycle, or about 16% of the funds raised. Number one industry for Bernie is "Retired" (if that can be called an industry) and second is Education, with 1 and half a million respectively. Real Estate and Misc. Finance contribute slightly more than 200,000 of his funds.

 Hilary does receive 50% of her contributions from women, while for Bernie it's about 36%.

You decide who, if anybody, is the Wall Street candidate.

PS: For comparison Jeb Bush gets 93% from big donors, and about 38% from "Wall Street," defined as above. If you add Insurance, then he gets about 46% from "Wall Street." Ted Cruz is also at around 45% of his contributions.

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