Posted on 06/12/2007 7:31:20 AM PDT by DCJeanGrey
The Federal Election Commission introduced a new feature Tuesday on its website to track presidential campaign donations as a part of a larger effort to make campaign finance data more accessible.
The FEC now has an online map that graphically displays individual contributions to 2008 Presidential candidates, organized by zip code. Users may also look at and compare contributions to specific candidates, all candidates, or all candidates from a political party.
The new system also allows users to export campaign finance data to an Excel spreadsheet.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Very cool. I can think of a lot of uses for this. Now if only Congress would stop trying to make it hard for us to access information on pork barrel spending.
But it does not show who is giving to the candidates.
Does anybody know where I could find this feature?
Open Secrets does not have this format either.
BTTT
It seems to. I clicked on a State (Virginia), and then clicked on a candidate, and then clicked on a circle for a zip code, and it popped up the names of all the donors.
In fact, with just a few clicks, I found out that a candidate for State Senate, Jill Vogel, gave money to Mike Huckabee for President.
Pretty cool. I apparently didn’t give any money to anybody.
More interesting, some local bloggers who talk big about supporting a candidate haven’t given any money to any of the candidates either, at least not in the reporting period covered by the map.
Thanks!!!
Ping sent at the request of greyfoxx39
Excellent thread. Thanks for posting. I already saw that some of my idiot neighbors contributed to Barack Obama. At least it wasn’t to Hitlery.....
Thanks for the ping!
You’re welcome, Alamo-Girl.
Thank you for the ping. Excellent site!
You’re welcome...I hope more FReepers get to see it.
The thanks go to greyfoxx39, I just sent the ping as requested :-)
Cheers,
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