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I was pursuing the local (zips starting 447) list of contributions to the Presidential campaigns (follow that link and you can find out for your area, or candidate or donor), and there seem to be a fair number of illegally large contributions.
Each individual is allowed $2300 per candidate per election, with the primary and general election counting as two elections, and you can contribute all $4600 during the primary election, so that if the candidate doesn’t win the primary, they turn the $2300 remaining of your contribution to the general election fund for whomever does win. Perhaps those who made the overly large contributions thought it was $4600 per donation, who knows… I would guess after next quarter results are posted, we’ll see some corrections to that as there are lots of reattribution requests.
Oddly almost all the illegally large local contributions were made to John Edwards. I also see some contributions to John Edwards that I would think would be legal as they total $4600, but it says reattribution requested… unless reattribution requests means it comes from the person and they want to reattribute the donation to somebody else… and then I am not sure if that means they want to say the money came from somebody else or want the money to go to somebody else….
So no question on John Edwards winning the local contributions, at least as of last quarter, we’ll see how things are after the reattributions go through and the results come in from this current quarter.
Meanwhile let’s see how the Republican’s are doing locally as of last quarter (this current quarter ends in a few days, and I have no idea how long until they update the information):
Romney: $0
Giuliani: $250
McCain: $1250
Brownback: $400
Paul: $750
Tancredo: $50
Huckabee: $0
Hunter: $0
Thompson: $0 (to be fair, I don’t think he could have had any last quarter)
Cox: $0
Gilmore: $0
No mention of Keys on that list.
I won’t list all the Democrats, however, John Edwards currently has a huge lead locally. Kucinich, our dear CFR free Democrat and the only candidate beyond Paul who will end the war quickly has $0 locally. Anyhow, it would appear from the Republican stand point it was McCain then Paul, both with only two contributions.

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