{"id":371,"date":"2009-08-27T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2009-08-27T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T20:50:26","slug":"party-of-rich-and-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/371\/party-of-rich-and-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Party of the Rich and Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/almanac\/2010\/\" target=\"_blank\">Almanac of American Politics<\/a> arrived at our offices today, and with it, a handy little chart on page 1699.<\/p>\n<p>The typical refrain is that the GOP is the party of big-money country club types and Democrats are the party of the little-guy.\u00a0 As stereotpyical as these labels might be, numbers from the 2008 election tell a strange story.<\/p>\n<p>The Almanac broke down the zip codes in the U.S. by total amount of political contributions.\u00a0 For example, zip code 10021, which resides in the upper-east side in New York City, contributed over $21 million during the 2007-08 cycle.\u00a0 Of that amount, over 72% went to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>This was a typical refrain from the chart.\u00a0 The six most prolific donor zip codes during the last cycle were all from New York City and all gave big money to Democrats, a total of over $44 million.\u00a0 That&#8217;s $44 million from literally a few square miles on Manhattan Island.\u00a0 Of the 25 most prolific zip codes, only 3 favored Republicans over Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>More proof of the drastic change in certain demographic groups toward the Democratic Party is evidenced in recent election data.\u00a0 According to the Almanac, President Obama won 52% of the vote for those reporting income over $200,000 in 2008, even though the President promised to raise income taxes for anyone making over $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>To put that figure in perspective, John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee, received only 35% of the vote for individuals reporting over $200,000 in income.\u00a0 This\u00a0 18% jump in high-earners and a massive amount of cash from New York City and California helped propel President Obama to the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Almanac of American Politics arrived at our offices today, and with it, a handy little chart on page 1699. The typical refrain is that the GOP is the party of big-money country club types and Democrats are the party of the little-guy.\u00a0 As stereotpyical as these labels might be, numbers from the 2008 election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,24],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-almanac-of-american-politics","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}