A diary on the recommended list right now quotes the average Obama contribution accurately at $96. It then proceeds to argue that this stands in contrast to Clinton donors, who are regular folks giving less money but voluteering time.
Um, what?
I'd always read that Obama was relying more on small donors. Unfortunately, given the fact that Sen. Clinton has not released her contribution total yet for March, I can only provide partial numbers.
The first number is for Pennsylvania, where Sen. Clinton's average contribution is $486, compared to the "relatively small" average of $279 for Sen. Obama (quoting the article).
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5 money.6335296mar30,0,4042657,full.story
Sen. Clinton's average donation in February nationwide was $100, and that was down from previous months as the campaign adopted a "smaller but more" strategy as opposed to the "pay attention to the big givers" strategy.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tra ilmix/feb08/hillaryclintonscampaign.htm
This fact can also be seen in the breakdown of donors by amount they gave, as seen at opensecrets.
http://opensecrets.org/pres08/donordems. asp?filter=A&sortby=S
Here is the basic breakdown by percentage of dollars raised:
From donations of less than $200:
Obama- 40% of total raised
Clinton 23% of total raised
$2300 to $4600
Obama- 32% of total raised
Clinton- 51% of total raised
$4600
Obama- 6% of total raised
Clinton- 24% of total raised
In summary, 75% of the money Clinton has raised has come from donations of $2300 or more. Obama, by contrast, has only raised 40% of money that way. 40% of his fundraising has come from donations of less than $200, compared to only 23% of Clinton's fundraising.
I'm not sure what else to add, except that I don't think anyone here is surprised by this information. In the future, I hope that any diary discussing an issue doesn't just do research on one candidate and then say "and my candidate doesn't do that."
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