Biden Trails In Donors from Obama-Trump Swing Counties

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Biden Trails In Donors from Obama-Trump Swing Counties

August 27, 2019 at 9:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 155 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/27/biden-trails-in-donors-from-obama-trump-swing-counties/

"SNIP.....

In the 206 counties that voted for Barack Obama twice before backing Donald Trump in 2016, Joe Biden has fewer donors than three primary opponents, the Daily Beast reports.

According to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data, 12,040 donors from those Obama-Trump counties made 19,885 donations to Biden during the first six months of 2019. By contrast, Elizabeth Warren had 13,674 donors make 26,298 donations from those counties and Pete Buttigieg had 14,294 donors make 23,320 donations from those counties.

All three of them trail Bernie Sanders when it comes to donors from Obama-Trump counties. Sanders had 33,185 donors make 81,841 donations in those areas, “a haul that his team was eager to tout.”

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[George II]

1. Nothing in that article says anything about the amounts of those donations, so....

....the headline "Biden trails" is a misnomer.

Also, not mentioned in the article is the fact that most of these 206 counties are in states that Clinton won anyway - Maine (split), New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington.

However, they do point out that Biden gave the early candidates a two month head start. Sanders began accepting contributions on February 19, Biden on April 18.

The bottom line is that candidates don't spend "donors" or "donations" on media buys, they spend dollars.

In real dollars, Biden received $22.0 million in 73 days, an average of $301,000 per day. Sanders received $36.2 million in 132 days, an average of $274,000 per day.

[Autumn]

2. It seems off that the front runner trails the other top three primary opponents.

of course Biden didn't announce until April. But still, you would think as the "front runner" he would catch up easily. Buttigieg officially launched in April also.

[George II]

3. This analysis is looking at only a few counties (206), not the entire states in which they are....

....less than 7% of all the counties and parishes in the United States. Also, most of those counties are in states that trump lost anyway.

[applegrove]

4. These are only the districts that swung from obama to Trump.