Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Interesting What You Find At OpenSecrets.org

Who funds Democratic campaigns? Clinton's 2016 campaign had 4587 donors who gave $5400 or above, and 25,434 who gave $2700 and above. Trump received $5400+ contributions from 336 donors. Above $2700, 1288. But industry is also interesting. Clinton received $87,965,257 from workers in the securities & investment industry. Trump received $20,842,631from that same industry. The larger industry was Retired: $37,412,862. Who is giving $5400+ to a campaign? People like you (or even me)? No, Wall Street. They know which candidate will do their bidding.

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