One of Senator Hatch’s campaign staff asked me to select another candidate for federal office and do an analysis of their campaign donation sources so they could be compared. I thought it was a reasonable suggestions so I decided to use Representative Chaffetz as a comparator to Senator Hatch. As I did for the Senator I tried to err on the side of contributions coming from Utah when there was subjectivity involved.Below are charts & tables that summarize campaign contribution data I downloaded from MapLight (a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that seeks to show the impact of money on politics). The data contains all donations for election cycles 2006-2012. I downloaded the data June 13, 2012.
Individual donors are required to provide addresses to campaigns so it is easy to show the source of funds from a location perspective. Note, there just a few donations that had no state listed so I assigned them to Utah.
For PACs it is difficult because if a is PAC set up by a company with a national or global presence then it is hard to identify a specific location. If on the other hand it is a PAC that represents an industry or cause then donors can come from anywhere in the US. For the PACs I went through the list and identified the ones that had I determined had a significant presence in Utah (for corporations I look up where they had offices or plants) then multiplied their donations by 2 to cover anything I missed to come up with the percentage donated that are Utah related. Note, similar to Hatch donations I did not take the time to research all of them but I did look for those that I thought would have a Utah presence first. Also, I generalized the industries for the PAC contributions (e.g. Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals, Doctors, and Medical Devices are categorized as Healthcare) and added a pie chart to the sources PAC donations by Industry.
Aside from the amounts involved there is a stark difference between the mix of donors between Senator Hatch and Representative Chaffetz. Whereas 22% of the individual donor’s to the Senator come from Utah, 69% Chaffetz’s donations come from Utah. The ratio of individual donors to PACs is 55/45 for Senator Hatch and nearly the reverse, 46/54 for Representative Chaffetz. Also, while Jason’s biggest PAC category was Political (mostly conservative groups which isn’t surprising since he is a Tea Party favorite) at 24%, Senator Hatch’s was Healthcare at 30%.
The source file, Chaffetz 2006-2012 Campaign Contributions (Excel 2007), can be downloaded simply by clicking on the aforementioned filename.
Here are the charts and tables:
| Contribution Amounts | Percentage | |||||
| Source | UT | Non-UT | Total | UT | Not UT | |
| Individuals | $ 400,264 | $ 180,097 | $ 580,361 | 46% | 69% | 31% |
| PACs | $ 483,832 | $ 191,804 | $ 675,636 | 54% | 72% | 28% |
| Total | $ 884,096 | $ 371,901 | $ 1,255,997 | 100% | 70% | 30% |
| 2006-2012 | ||
| State | Contributions | % |
| UT | $ 400,264 | 68.97% |
| CA | $ 42,302 | 7.29% |
| VA | $ 23,159 | 3.99% |
| NY | $ 18,700 | 3.22% |
| FL | $ 17,010 | 2.93% |
| AZ | $ 16,750 | 2.89% |
| CO | $ 9,800 | 1.69% |
| MD | $ 9,226 | 1.59% |
| CT | $ 7,500 | 1.29% |
| DC | $ 6,650 | 1.15% |
| NV | $ 6,250 | 1.08% |
| TX | $ 5,600 | 0.96% |
| MA | $ 3,000 | 0.52% |
| SC | $ 2,500 | 0.43% |
| NM | $ 2,400 | 0.41% |
| ID | $ 2,250 | 0.39% |
| DE | $ 1,200 | 0.21% |
| GA | $ 1,000 | 0.17% |
| NJ | $ 1,000 | 0.17% |
| PA | $ 1,000 | 0.17% |
| MI | $ 1,000 | 0.17% |
| OH | $ 500 | 0.09% |
| KY | $ 500 | 0.09% |
| OK | $ 200 | 0.03% |
| MT | $ 200 | 0.03% |
| TN | $ 200 | 0.03% |
| MN | $ 200 | 0.03% |
| Grand Total | $ 580,361 |
| 2006-2012 | ||
| Industry | Contributions | |
| Political | $ 164,126 | 24.29% |
| Finance | $ 124,243 | 18.39% |
| Energy | $ 62,500 | 9.25% |
| Healthcare | $ 60,250 | 8.92% |
| Retail | $ 53,000 | 7.84% |
| Construction | $ 29,500 | 4.37% |
| Manufacturing | $ 26,000 | 3.85% |
| Defense | $ 26,000 | 3.85% |
| Transportation | $ 23,000 | 3.40% |
| IT | $ 19,707 | 2.92% |
| Entertainment | $ 17,500 | 2.59% |
| Agriculture | $ 17,500 | 2.59% |
| Insurance | $ 12,000 | 1.78% |
| Communications | $ 11,500 | 1.70% |
| Real Estate | $ 11,000 | 1.63% |
| Legal | $ 8,060 | 1.19% |
| Misc | $ 5,500 | 0.81% |
| Media | $ 4,250 | 0.63% |
| Grand Total | $ 675,636 | 100.00% |
Excellent information. Thanks again, Rod.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kristen.
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