Election 2012: Follow the Money Given to Obama and Romney in Your Town
Patch has a new interactive campaign contribution database that lets you see who's donating each candidate and how much.
Patch has created an interactive database so you can see how much your neighbors are donating to the presidential campaign — and to which candidate they’re writing their checks. We’ve included communities across Illinois, so if you want to see what the campaign contributions in nearby towns are like, go right ahead.
The information in the database was downloaded from the Federal Election Commission’s website. The data is based on quarterly reports and is current through July. The data will be updated in mid-October.
KJK
10:54 am on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Isn't it ironic that we can see the donation amount, & employer of our neighbors, but corporations, who were declared "people" by the Citizens United case, can anonymously donate money to Super PACs...
Guido McGinty
1:16 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Why is that ironic?
Old H.P.
6:33 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
No one says Corporations are people but the law says they are and shall be considered an entity. Business 101.
McCloud
3:39 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Corporations were declare people by the mindless left, and were meant to fill the heads of their empty headed followers. Nowhere in the court decision is this nonsense present. Try getting your information from other sources.
mij
4:12 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Type in Obama
Procrustes' Foil
5:30 am on Saturday, October 6, 2012
McCloud, corporations were declared people by a right-wing Supreme Court led by Roberts, Scalia, Alitto, Thomas and Kennedy. The Progressives, Bryer, Bader-Ginsberg, Sotomayor and Kagan, voted against this abomination.
Guido McGinty
9:47 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012
"corporations were declared people by a right-wing Supreme Court led by Roberts, Scalia, Alitto, Thomas and Kennedy."
So groups of people are not people? Do you think about what you write?
Stevie Janowski
4:02 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Didnt work
mij
4:14 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Lets see I typed in my neighbors last name and 50 people with same last name came up
Stevie Janowski
4:19 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
The smiths?
Jennifer Fisher
4:27 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
It might help if you know your neighbor's first name, too.
mij
9:42 am on Saturday, October 6, 2012
Jennifer
My first and last name are on you list and I didn't give.
So Patch is causing harrassment problems
mij
6:30 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2012
Patch needs to go back to the drawing board
Craig Apelbaum
6:47 am on Friday, October 5, 2012
Romney only.
brian blanchard
1:05 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
SKRILLEX IS A GIRL
brian blanchard
1:05 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Yo dog Obama dun beter get elected n sheet
Mr Tibbs
3:54 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
interesting, but unscientific observations... for Glenview, there are about 30 pages of Obama contributions and about 7 for Romney. Though the individual contribution amounts for Romney seem to be higher.
D'skidoc
5:46 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
No surprise. Obama relies on lots of small donors. Romney relies on fewer, richer ones.
RationalTht
8:23 am on Saturday, October 6, 2012
Obama also relies on unions which tend to get a pass - they should be treated no differently than corporations.
mij
9:39 am on Saturday, October 6, 2012
Not many small donors of either party goto $40,000 a plate dinners
Deadcatbounce
3:22 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012
President Obama's reelection campaign, rattled by his Wednesday night debate performance, could be in for even worse news. According to knowledgeable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.
Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.
According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas. That might be a violation of federal election laws.
The Obama campaign has received hundreds of millions in small dollar donations, many via credit card donations through their website. On Thursday, the campaign announced a record September donor haul of $150 million.
At the end of the 2008 presidential campaign, the Obama-Biden effort was hit with a similar scandal. At the time, the Washington Post reported that the Obama campaign let donors use "largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity."
D'skidoc
5:48 pm on Friday, October 5, 2012
Also, if I want to know who my neighbor is voting for, I can check out the yard sign or just ask. What I really want to know is what 50K buys you other than dinner and some comedic insults of the 99% or 47% or 30% or whatever?
McCloud
5:37 am on Saturday, October 6, 2012
Wrong, read the ruling. When your source of information is fed to you like a baby bird, one tends to have throw up in their mouth.
nan anderson
9:27 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
List is incomplete