""The small donor trend for Tea Partiers is unprecedented," says Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics. Her group analyzed the most recent campaign donation numbers available from the Federal Elections Commission.
Those small donors are helping candidates pay for anti-establishment ads like the one likening political insiders in Washington to dinosaurs.
- Typically, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, Senate candidates get no more than 20 percent of their funds from small donors. But the latest numbers available from the Federal Elections Commission for some Tea Party favorites show much higher stats.
As of the second quarter, small donors filled about one-third of the campaign chests of Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey (30 percent, $3 million) and Florida's Marco Rubio (36 percent, $4.6 million). They accounted for nearly half of the funds for Delaware's Christine O'Donnell (45 percent, $119,000) and Kentucky's Rand Paul (46 percent, $1.6 million). And they made up more than half of the early donations given to Alaska's Joe Miller (51 percent, $144,000) and Nevada's Sharron Angle (58 percent $2.05 million).
The Tea Partiers are getting a fair share from big donors, too. Their top supporter is the fiscally
The Club for Growth has been around eleven years and supported Republicans long before there was a Tea Party.
This year, its top three beneficiaries are Tea Party-backed Republicans running for Senate. That includes nearly $700,000 for Pat Toomey. Until last year, he happened to be president of the "Club for Growth."
(Top three Senate candidate recipients for Club for Growth as of the second quarter: Toomey $697,155, Rubio: $321,550, Angle: $237,900)."...
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via Hot Air
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