Leading Dem Candidates Double Leading GOPers in # of Donors
by Jonathan Singer, Tue Jul 03, 2007 at 04:06:47 PM EDT
Well, this has been a day in which there has been quite a bit of trumpeting of Democratic successes on this site -- so maybe one more post on the subject will do.
According to the Associated Press, Republicans waited until perhaps the quietest news day of the summer -- the day before the Fourth of July -- to allow their embarrassing fundraising numbers to trickle out. And not only are the overall numbers unremarkable, particularly in comparison with the Democrats, the total number of donors to this point in the campaign for the Republicans pales in comparison with that of the Democrats.
For the year, according to the aforementioned AP report, Mitt Romney -- who without $9 million in personal loans to the campaign would be in as dire a financial status as the effectively broke John McCain -- leads the way with 80,000 donors, followed by John McCain at 72,000 donors and Rudy Giuliani with 56,000 donors. There is almost undoubtedly at least some overlap between the three campaigns' donors, but for the sake of generosity, let's say that 208,000 or so people donated to the top three Republicans' campaigns. For comparison's sake, about 258,000 people, or about 25 percent more, have donated to the campaign of Barack Obama alone. John Edwards has reportedly seen roughly 100,000 people donate to his campaign, so his donor base is larger than that of any of the Republican presidential candidates, and though Hillary Clinton has yet to release her second quarter numbers, her campaign reportedly had in the ballpark of 50,000 donors, which would put her nearly even with Giuliani in half of the time.
Going one step further to do a final comparison of numbers of donors for the top three candidates (in terms of fundraising, at the least) for the two parties' presidential nominations, let's assume, for the sake of argument (and I know it's incorrect to make this assumption, but bear with me), that there was no overlap in either the Democrats' donor list or that of the Republicans. Let's also assume (and I also know that this assumption is wrong, but bear with me here, too) that Hillary Clinton did not get a single new donor this quarter. Not a one. These Democrats would have roughly 408,000 donors for the first half of the year while these Republicans would have just 208,000 donors, or just over half as many. That's right: the three leading Democratic candidates for President conceivably have more than twice as many donors as do the three leading Republican candidates. If that's not a shocking comparison, I don't know what is.
Tags: Democrats, Fundraising, Q2, Republicans (all tags)
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