This is a very cool website

IntelToad · Post by **IntelToad** » October 6th, 2004, 12:24 pm

Heard about it in The Economist:

www.fundrace.org

The website lets you search campaign dontations by zip codes, has some really cool maps showing dontation patterns etc.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » October 6th, 2004, 12:52 pm

Damned, that seems pretty invasive to me. Not that it's a bad thing, but I can see that some would use a tool such as this in perhaps deciding who they won't want to do business with in the future.

TRLewis · Post by **TRLewis** » October 7th, 2004, 12:26 am

I could have sworn you could only contribute only $2000. I found this one guy who donated $25k and 2 other people with the same address donated $25k each.

Earthpig · Post by **Earthpig** » October 7th, 2004, 12:34 am

When you live in a small town, like I do, that info is published in the daily newspaper.....by your name! It will list your name, the amount donated, and what party it went to. But hey.....we have a Super Walmart!

RLTW
EP

Ranger2 · Post by **Ranger2** » October 7th, 2004, 1:00 am

That's pretty interesting. I found quite a few people I know on it. I am going to go egg the Kerry's supporters houses. You can only contribute so much directly to a a single person you can contribute as much as you want to a party or group.

It is only through July 31st though.

Ranger2

Slowpoke · Post by **Slowpoke** » October 7th, 2004, 2:29 am

It turns out that the little town I live in is pretty conservative.....I was pretty sure it was. A little side note.....one man, who sent $200 to Kerry, listed his occupation as "Hairdresser".

RachelG · Post by **RachelG** » October 7th, 2004, 2:36 am

Here are two more that also cover congressional elections and pacs.

http://www.tray.com/

http://www.opensecrets.org/

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » October 7th, 2004, 2:47 am

Slowpoke wrote:It turns out that the little town I live in is pretty conservative.....I was pretty sure it was. A little side note.....one man, who sent $200 to Kerry, listed his occupation as "Hairdresser".

I saw a few that donated to Kerry who were listed as unemployed.

That figures.

smokn38 · Post by **smokn38** » October 7th, 2004, 3:15 am

Slowpoke wrote:It turns out that the little town I live in is pretty conservative.....I was pretty sure it was. A little side note.....one man, who sent $200 to Kerry, listed his occupation as "Hairdresser".

Male hairdresser=Homo=Democrat. Nice Ranger Slowpoke.

IntelToad · Post by **IntelToad** » October 7th, 2004, 3:32 am

The reason that some of the donations are more than $ 2,000 is that they are made to the respective parties, not the individual candidates. The maximum for candidates is $ 2,000 although you can see how to get around that because you'll see multiple people from the same address making the $ 2,000 maximum contribution- dad, mom, aunts, uncles and the family dog.