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The following piece was produced by the Huffington Post's OffTheBus.
Tim Frasca and Denise Wheeler contributed additional reporting to this story.
In the closing days of the third quarter, the leading GOP candidates raised money from some of the richest and whitest zipcodes in America, reveals an analysis of just released federal campaign disclosures by Huffington Post's OffTheBus. They collected this cash the same week that the four major candidates said they were too hindered to participate in the debate aimed at American minority voters.
During the last week of September, former Gov. Mitt Romney vacuumed up more than $73,000 from a ritzy Florida retirement community known as "The Villages," described as a "Republican bastion," by the Miami Herald. While Romney couldn't find time to go attend the Baltimore debate, he managed to visit The Villages at least twice this year. He kicked off his Florida campaign there in February and stumped there again in September.
In the waning days of September, collectively, residents of 10021 and 10022 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, among the wealthiest in the United States, contributed more than $79,000 to the four GOPers. The average income in 10021 is great majority of the people living there are non-Hispanic white.
While most of cash pulled in from these two zips was for native son and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), who got more than $28,000 of the take, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Romney, and former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) also got some contributions from these zip codes. Compare that to the zip code 10035, just a few miles away in Harlem. The four GOPers got nada from this zip code, where African Americans are the majority and the average income is $26,000.
Indeed, going down the lists of top contributing zip codes that week for the four candidates is like taking a trip through some of the nation's most exclusive neighborhoods. There is 06830 in Greenwich, Connecticut, , where a middling house costs more than a million bucks. There's also 22314 in Alexandria, Virginia, near the nation's capital, home to lobbyists and politicos.
Then there is 75205 in Dallas, Texas. All four of the GOPers who shunned the Baltimore debate got contributions there in late September. This zip code is home to the Dallas Country Club, a "staple of Highland Park's most exclusive social circuit for more than a century," according to the Dallas News. The club made the news earlier this year when the application of Kneeland Youngblood, a prominent African American businessman, who was up to be the club's first black member, was delayed for the sixth year, reportedly over questions about his involvement with the Rev. Jess Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition. File that in the category if the things that make you go, "hmm."
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No surprises here.
Interesting how the Condi Rice thread got pulled so fast. There was some pretty nasty racism and misogny displayed by the huffkids, and they were just getting ramped up. This was pulled even quicker than the one with the huffkids obscenely defending sex with 11 year olds as just a natural part of life.
I disagree with your title "Top GOP Candidates' Q3 Money Pours In From Wealthiest, Whitest Areas" because you are leaving Ron Paul out as a top GOP candidate. Dr Paul is a top candidate and he has money pouring in although not from the wealthy elites.
The way it should be.
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Nov 5th could be the biggest donation day in history for Ron Paul. It will be so big even the corporate owned media will not be able to ignore it.
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"Top GOP Candidates' Q3 Money Pours In From Wealthiest, Whitest Areas"
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And yet it still isn't enough to matter!
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Republicans: The White Stuff!
According to the left, it's a crime to be white. Hillary is goin' to have a lot of 'splainin to do in short order. Her Chinese connections are pretty shady. Rudy wins in '08.
The Villages is not ritzy, it's middle class.
and Obama having the billionaire Black Oprah and Hillary has the Asian billions..
Hey Nancy, how about doing a column on the busboys, dishwashers, and other minimum wage earners in Chinatown giving Clinton thousands of dollars each? I guess it's normal for some politically active people to give an entire month's worth of their take home pay to Democrats.
Actually, there's something rather noble about that. It means they're definitely invested in finding a less tyrannical leader.
Is it any surprise that the most and biggest donations came from the "whitest and wealthiest" zip codes, while Harlem gave Republicans nothing? Have we studied the same of Democratic givers? I guarantee they're in the same or similar zip codes. I'm thinking some guy that makes $26k a year in Harlem has better things to do than give to the Thompson campaign..
Everything you write is about the media backed Demo and GOP candidates hitting the wealthy zip codes is true. There is no difference between the GOP candidates mentioned in the articule and Hillary and Obama.
Not so for Ron Paul.
He gets his millions from zip codes of all economic levels because he inspires people from all income groups, not just the rich.
Which is more than anyone can say about the mentioned media approved neocon candidates.
Smell the coffee.
Do not fall for labels.
It is not GOP vs Demo.
Its not left vs right.
Its right vs wrong.
Do not vote for anyone who is associated with
NAFTA, Torture, Wars, open borders, loss of our Constitutional Rights and the CFR.
Peace
Just contributions for the folks not getting into the kingdom of heaven.
Oh my what a surprise! I wonder if there all going to let their hired help vote?
Illegals can't vote (legally).
but they can donate to hillbilly
No but Republicans get to vote twice in Florida if they didn't get the vote they wanted.
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