| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/06/29, 10:42 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Everyone knows that a relatively small number of wealthy people donate the lion’s share of money to political campaigns. But, you probably never suspected just how small that group actually is.
Thanks to the amazing Sunlight Foundation, we now know that just 31,385 people — one tenth of one percent of the overall U.S. population — are responsible for nearly 30 percent of the
$6 billion (yes, billion with a “b”) contributed to federal campaigns and committees in the 2012 election.
While the numbers are mind-boggling, one of the charts that Sunlight built to visualize them is even more telling.
It shows that the 31,385 people who qualify as the one percent of the one percent of political donors wouldn’t even come close to filling a football stadium. And, their seats would cost a minimum of
$12,950, the smallest contribution amount of any of the one-tenth-of-one-percenters.
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