Interesting analysis of ActBlue numbers at 538:
1 In 5 Democratic Donors Are Giving To More Than One Presidential Candidate
Money is pouring in, way more than last time. Democratic candidates have received “more than 70 percent over the amount that individual donors gave to presidential candidates of both parties combined” at the same point four years ago.
But there’s still plenty of “headroom.” People are not tapped out, and many are giving to multiple candidates.
Where the overlap is is kind of interesting.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, for example, has more than 60,000 donors in common with Sanders and also shares 60,000 with Harris, based on a Center for Public Integrity/FiveThirtyEight analysis that looked for unique combinations of first names, last names and ZIP codes. Sanders and Harris, meanwhile, share about 19,500.
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who raised the most money from individual donors in the second quarter, shares nearly 54,000 donors with Warren. He also shares about 45,000 donors with Harris, about 25,000 with former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas and about 21,000 with Biden.
It’s not surprising that Warren and Sanders share so many donors. I am a bit surprised that Buttigieg and Warren do.
This level of interest might bode well for downticket races, too.
Amanda Litman, the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, which recruits liberal candidates for down-ballot races such as state legislatures and local offices, said the new presidential campaign donors coming into the system are theoretically good news for all the less-prominent Democratic candidates raising money — she said donors who have given before are most likely to give again.