Friday, July 28, 2006

Some interesting numbers- blows the theory of "rich" republicans out of the water

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has broken down the donations for Mark Green and Jim Doyle. Here are some interesting numbers-

- Jim Doyle has received 22% of his donations from out of state

- Depending on how you break down the numbers- Mark Green has gotten 4% of out of state donations. If you include the money Mark Green tranferred from his congressional campaign account, Mark Green has received 15% from out of state donations

-Jim Doyle has received 9,183 individual donations

- Mark Green has received 16,149 individual donations

- Mark Green has received 60 donations of $5000 or more, totally 19% of his donations this year.

- Jim Doyle donations of $5000 or more, makes up 44% of his donations this year.(Again, Where are all those "rich" Republicans?)

- The average Mark Green donation is $176 and Jim Doyle's average donation is $440 (Again, Where are all those "rich" Republicans?)

- Jim Doyle has $5.2 million cash on hand

- Mark Green has$3.2 million cash on hand

Just by analyzing these numbers, you can clearly see that the idea that Republicans are a bunch of fat cat rich people and the Democrats stand for the little people- has been completely blown out of the water.

6 comments:

Kate said...

Curious. Do they add up the small donations made by individuals, one at a time? Or do they count them as an each time donation? Not wording that too well, am I.

K. Carpenter said...

First of all, My name is Kathy. Secondly, I have done a case study of my very own. I am a Republican and I am not rich. I have alot of Republican friends, not one of them is rich.

So the little game by the Dems of calling the republicans the "rich" party is a bogus. You know it is bogus and it has always been bogus.

K. Carpenter said...

Always makes outlandish claims. You just said yourself that you know some Republicans that are filthy rich.

In my world, this is not an outlandish claim. Republicans are not rich. I don't really know any. However, I do know a few rich Democrats.

There is a perception out there, that Republicans are rich. From these numbers alone, you can see that it is not true.

What is outlandish is the claim that Republicans are the party for the rich. That is the perception, and the reality is that it is just no so.

Anonymous said...

Filthy rich? Funny, whenever I see someone who is filthy any time other than when working an inherently dirty job, as I have done, that person is poor as a result of his own behavior.

The Republicans are the party of wealth creation. That is why I have voted Republican since the time I was struggling to make ends meet. It was the Gingrich-era "tax cuts for the rich" which enabled me to enter the middle class.

K. Carpenter said...

DJ- this is they type of stereotype that I am talking about-

Howard Dean, the head of the Democratic Party stated-

"Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives," Mr. Dean said. "But for ordinary working people, who have to work eight hours a day, they have kids, they got to get home to those kids, the idea of making them stand for eight hours to cast their ballot for democracy is wrong."

Then to see that the average donation from Mark Green supporters are not the super rich- but the working class- just like me.

K. Carpenter said...

You made my point for me DJ. There are rich republicans and rich democrats. The idea perpetuated by the left that the GOP is a party for the rich white Americans only, is a pure farce. This idea is pumped out into mainstream America every single day.

This very argument is being made today by the left wing in Wisconsin. Have you heard the "big oil" commercials being run by the left wing in Wisconsin?

Just by looking at the numbers alone, one can clearly see that the "rich" Republicans are not the ones throwing the big dollars around in the governor's race. Yes, there are some rich Republicans that are throwing money at Mark Green. However, there are some poor republicans doing the same.

As far as not believing that numbers released by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, you have to take that up with them.

I posted my source and linked to where I got the numbers from. If they believe they are wrong, talk to the source. However, I have not seen any evidence to date that shows the MJS is incorrect in there data.