WaPo: See how your neighborhood is giving to Harris & Trump

[Susie]

Oct 24, 2024 11:40:05 GMT -5 tiki said:

Argh, they updated the article with a correction - to say they had previously left out data from Trump National Committee. And now the gift link won't open for me 

I tried to generate a new gift link, but the URL was the same as the original one so I don't think it would help.  I appreciate that WaPo is trying not to burn another gift link for the month on the same article, but IDK how to update.  This is the correction statement:

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CORRECTION

An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that more people in every state donated to Vice President Kamala Harris than to former president Donald Trump, and it misreported donor totals in the map and chart. This was an error because data from one fundraising committee, Trump National Committee, was not included. There are six states where Trump had more donors: Alabama, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wyoming. The article has been corrected.

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The map looks a lot redder, especially through the southeast.  Ugh.  

I wish they'd used light yellow or something other than pink to denote areas that are essentially even.  The light pink is hard to visually distinguish from the pale red of +10-100 Trump.

[lucybrown]

Interesting. My zip is extremely blue, so no surprises. $200K went to Harris and $20K to Trump.

[btdt]

In my DEEP RED zip code in an exurb of Atlanta, there were more Harris donors than donors for TFG. I am gobsmacked by that.

[Saudade]

Can anyone else provide a gift link? I am unable to access with this one

[mrsd2006]

My zip has almost double the number of Harris donors to Trump donors, but it's still $200K less for Harris than Trump.

[DotAndBuzz]

no surprise for my zip code:

>4500 donated $1 Million for Harrris

less than 300 donated $70k for trump

[breezy8407]

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[pinkpeony08]

This is super interesting - western and northern suburbs of Milwaukee historically have been red areas but the number of Harris donors in all those areas is higher than Trump.

[DotAndBuzz]

What I found interesting just rolling over different random rural zip codes was how close a lot of them were, in terms of number of donors.

Like in some random southeast Ohio zip code (read: poor, rural, Appalachia): 16 people gave $5k to Harris, and 18 gave 3k to trump. That's a TIGHT margin of people. And it goes back and forth all over that area, including West Virginia, with similar results. Like less than 5-10 people difference between number who donated to each candidate. That's not something I'd expect to see from somewhere so traditionally heavily red. Makes me hopeful.


Also calling it now - North Carolina's going blue this year

[tiki]

Folks in red or purple areas who posted before the WaPo correction may want to look again. The places I had posted changed significantly.

[dirtyred]

In my county there were more Harris donors, but Trump raised more money. Very interesting as I'm in a dark red county.

[heat40]

Hmmm well the loyal blue areas here in Florida are still blue, but I’m spying some other areas that are encouraging!

[estrellita]

Wut. My super red area is about equal. 34 donors for $3k (Biden/Harris) and 37 for $4k (45). I'm surprised, but I theorize people around here just aren't donating money to him. My hometown zip has like, 5x the donors and double the money for Harris, which isn't super surprising.

[Bad Dingo]

I take back my positive feeling about NC after the update/correction.

[underwaterrhymes]

Oct 24, 2024 13:18:55 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

I take back my positive feeling about NC after the update/correction.

Land doesn’t vote. 🩵 I think NC will go to Harris easily.

[scout8]

Oct 24, 2024 13:25:23 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Oct 24, 2024 13:18:55 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

I take back my positive feeling about NC after the update/correction.

Land doesn’t vote. 🩵 I think NC will go to Harris easily.

What makes you say that? I hope you are right, but I haven't seen anything to indicate this. 

[ellipses84]

I find it so disgusting and sad that so many people are still donating to that orange racist, rapist felon after 9 years of his grifting. I was watching a news segment about an old man who repeatedly donated small amounts every time he got a text thinking it was really 🍊 himself and Mike Johnson asking him and his @ adult kids didn’t realize he was starting to have dementia until he called them asking to borrow $1000 because he’d always been financially responsible and never donated to a campaign or asked to borrow money before. Of course the campaign wouldn’t refund any of the almost $40k he donated.

[Saudade]

Not surprised about my current location
Harris: 639 donors at 90k
Trump: 133 donors at 20k

My hometown was slightly more surprising.
Harris: 112 donors at 10k
Trump: 31 donors at 5k

I expected a lot more donors for Trump in my hometown.

[wawa]

My very itsy bitsy little zip code (we can all walk to the post office!) is 47 Harris supporters to 7 trump.  $3k to $800.  

eta: oh, just refreshed with the correction!  it's now 17 trump, $2k total.  I'm honestly shocked there are 17 entire trump supporters, but not shocked at all by the HUGE disparity in amounts per donor. 
We have a core of housing stock on the "main street" area that is all SFH's with a much older average owner age that's way more white and affluent than the average over the zip, and then two garden apartment complexes that skew lower income and much more black and brown.  You can imagine in which area the small handful of trump flags fly.... 

[aurora]

My area has donated 40x more to Harris by about 25x as many people. I knew I lived in a very blue area so not shocking, but definitely good to see.

[EvieEthelGarland]

Oct 24, 2024 12:56:44 GMT -5 tiki said:

Folks in red or purple areas who posted before the WaPo correction may want to look again. The places I had posted changed significantly.

I was shocked by Coeur d'Alene Idaho before the correction.  It was red before, but all the WA/CA MAGA types have moved there since COVID so seeing it blue had me confused. 

[abs]

Never mind. After the update there were more Trump donations than Harris. 1300 donators/300k for Trump, 1083/100k for Harris. Number of donators is close-ish. Amount raised isn’t at all. Depressing but not surprising.

[ellipses84]

My zip code is
Harris 750 - $90k, 🍊 222 - $40k.
We are a blue city/state but have off base military housing and lots of retirees in our zip code.

My old zip code is
Harris 910 - $100k, 🍊 249 - $40k
A blue city in a red state (slim chance the state goes blue although it might for Senate 😉). In comparison it’s a more affluent neighborhood with less density / less people in the zip code compared to my current zip code.

[cville]

Updated, now it's 100 45 donations, $40k.

Still outnumbered by quite a bit. Especially because it's 2900 Harris donors, not 2100. I got that wrong.

[wanderingback]

Oct 24, 2024 11:33:35 GMT -5 zaneyzoo said:

Thank you for sharing - I'm super fascinated by this. However, it does make my stomach turn a little seeing how much money is being pumped into political campaigns and could be put to good use in local communities.

I am shocked that my little severely red zip is tied on $$ give to both candidates but the number of Harris donors exceeds Trumps

Exactly. It really is maddening.

[havarti]

I’m shocked. A rural zip code considered to be extremely red in my area is evenly split in both number of donors and amount of donations.

[lilac05]

Look how much blue there is in Iowa! I’m not giving up on us yet! The map is reassuring.

My very small, ver red rural hometown is 57/52 Harris with Harris getting a couple thousand more than Trump. The map has it as pink, but 5 votes more with about 100 donors feels significant.

I want off of this rollercoaster, please.

[sju]

Oct 24, 2024 10:19:09 GMT -5 Bad Dingo said:

Check out The Villages (32162)

Can’t see the article without adding an email. How does it look like after the correction? Still red I’m sure, but anything positive for the democrats?

[ellipses84]

Oct 24, 2024 14:27:51 GMT -5 lilac05 said:

Look how much blue there is in Iowa!

I don’t understand why everyone counted Iowa out so quickly after they voted for Obama. I know they flipped drastically but I feel like with GenZ they could just as easily flip back. It seemed like everyone wrote them off and nobody campaigned there.

[underwaterrhymes]

Oct 24, 2024 13:29:17 GMT -5 scout8 said:

Oct 24, 2024 13:25:23 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Land doesn’t vote. 🩵 I think NC will go to Harris easily.

What makes you say that? I hope you are right, but I haven't seen anything to indicate this. 

Early voting numbers are very encouraging with women and young people showing up in droves. And I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think the media is driving the narrative that this is a closer race than it really is.

I cannot let myself consider the alternative at this point, so I’m basically allowing myself to lean into the actual numbers rather than the polls.