fun with fundrace
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When I feel election anxiety and start seeing frantic e-mails from candidates making their final push, it’s fun to delve into Fundrace to see where the money is coming from, particularly close to home. Nationwide, of course, the Democrats are having a better time of it fundraising than the Republicans, but we are swimming in a sea of especially deep blue, with their database shows that $13,046,780 has been given by people who identified their city as “Seattle” — $1,594,184 from 1,430 people to Republicans and $11,452,596 from 11,290 people to Democrats.
Some of the seven-to-one democratic advantages are especially stark when you take a peek at how employees at some of Seattle’s biggest or most noteworthy employers are contributing.
| employer | Democrats | Republicans |
| University of Washington | $279,446 | $15,515 |
| Amazon.com | $78,603 | $6,575 |
| Starbucks Coffee | $45,363 | $7,067 |
| Microsoft | $519,640 | $111,991 |
| Real Networks | $4,791 | $0 |
| Boeing | $165,045 | $64,783 |
| Alaska Airlines | $18,420 | $2,683 |
| Nordstrom | $25,533 | $10,592 |
| Costco | $21,901 | $2,510 |
| the Stranger | $230 | $0 |
| Seattle Times | $3,550 | $1,602 |
| Seattle P-I | $205 | $0 |
These are all just off the top of my head and more careful searches would turn up more thorough results (for instance, the line for “Starbucks Coffee”, above, combines searches for “Starbucks” and “Starbucks Coffee”. I’m sure that there are many similar examples). update: the original post included “older results”; the current version omits these 2004 contributions.
Anyone finding other interesting search results?




A search on "Medina" yields unexpected results.