Category: Elections

Big political transactions

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The network graph below shows a portion of the major transactions between political committees for 2021-22 based on Federal Elections Commission data.

You can load an interactive version of the image here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AJCjbdB4wRfrp6QJDlPxIr9qMahDRF9zSepERrZMsyU/edit?usp=sharing

It may take a while to load, but once loaded you can move around in it (by clicking your left mouse button and holding it down as you move it), and you can scroll to make it larger or smaller. The nodes are committees (which when enlarged are labeled), and the arrows between nodes illustrate how large the transaction was by the width of the arrow. The skinniest arrows are $1 million.

Does 265 = 117,256?

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In the 2022 federal congressional elections, 265 people donated $859,860,994, while 117,256 people donated $721,920,887.

Overall, 2,228 donors gave $2,476,618,394 in single donations of $100,000 or more. All donations of $2,000 or more totaled only $4,060,112,850.

All these numbers cover the period from Jan. 1 to Dec.31, 2022 as reported by the Federal Election Commission.