2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMen Dominate in Political Giving; Hillary Clinton’s Donors Are an Exception
More women vote than men, and it has been true for decades. But women lag way behind men in another measure of political participation. Only about 30 percent of big donors to campaigns are women, which, in an election thats forecast to feed on billions of dollars of donations, is a gender gap in political influence.From Our Advertisers
The estimated gap in overall fund-raising is even larger, because the average contribution from a man is much larger than the average for a woman. For every dollar flowing from big donors into the campaigns of sitting members of Congress, about 76 cents has come from a man and 24 cents from a woman.
These findings are based on an Upshot analysis of data from Crowdpac, a Silicon Valley start-up that tracks donations and rates candidates on an ideological scale. The donors gender was determined by their first names. (Less than two percent of donors cant be reliably mapped to gender.) The data includes only contributions of more than $200, because the names of smaller contributors arent disclosed under campaign finance law.
Presidential Candidates
Hillary Clinton 52.6%
Bernie Sanders 37.6%
Carly Fiorina 33.3%
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/upshot/the-gender-gap-in-political-giving.html?_r=0
There are some statistics and such here and a bunch of philosophical analysis. What I got from this is that even the pundits aren't 100% in agreement as to Why. I think the answer is quite clear; Hillary Clinton is running a fantastic campaign.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Beacool
(30,249 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)postatomic
(1,771 posts)Since most of Bernie donors are shadow donors.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)Anyways using the percentages above, Hillary has 52.6% * not quite 400k donors = less than 211k female donors. Bernie has 37.6% * 650,000 = 244k female donors.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Didn't you know Clinton leads with ALL donors? The big ones, the small ones, the green ones, the Wall Street ones....
artislife
(9,497 posts)Maybe I am coming out of the shadows!
cui bono
(19,926 posts)SMH at the tactics used to "promote" Hillary.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)jfern
(5,204 posts)Odds are most of her money was from men.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)I did not know this - thanks for the post.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I think most of her money, by far, comes from male-dominated corporate sources. Whose interests matter when the chips are down? I'm betting on the interests of her mega-donors.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)Cha
(297,274 posts)more experience and it shows.
mahalo postatomic~
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I just got an unsolicited mail from your buddy who likes to harass people on DU via private messages:
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cui bono
(19,926 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)Even if I was the ONLY woman not giving her money. What a piss-poor reason, IMO, to support a candidate. Gender. It is not as if she is equal with the other candidates on the issues I care about.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)did in 2008. So he can continue to tap donors while Clinton maxes them out.
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