Tom Abrahams has a great post up over at his blog at TheVote.abc13.com. He’s found some interesting tidbits in the campaign finance data pertaining to Texas, as well as noting that John McCain has only about one-third of the cash on hand that Barack Obama has.
Regarding Houston, he found this:
The 770– zip codes in Houston are the most generous in the state for both candidates. McCain has pulled in $1,650,521 million. Obama’s received a little more than $2 million.
What’s even more amazing about those numbers is that the 770 zip codes have given more to all presidential candidates ($9,315,056) than the states of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, West Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee Alaska, and Hawaii each have given to ALL presidential candidates this election year.
That means that more than half the states in the country (30) have given less to the process than just a handful of zip codes in Houston have doled out. Wow!
Wow indeed. And yet, we rarely see Barry or John campaigning here. Interesting.
In reviewing the links Tom provided, I found a few other interesting tidbits. For instance, if you take the four largest urban areas of Texas and compare them, Democrats raised slightly more than Republicans thanks to the large discrepancy in the Austin area.
| 3 Digit Zip Code | Democrats | Republicans | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 752 Dallas | $3,767,374 | $4,166,793 | $7,934,167 |
| 770 Houston | $4,629,346 | $4,685,708 | $9,315,054 |
| 782 San Antonio | $1,371,974 | $1,677,677 | $3,049,651 |
| 787 Austin | $3,229,501 | $1,725,890 | $4,955,391 |
| Total | $12,998,195 | $12,256,068 | $25,254,26 |
Comparing the 3 digit maps provided side by side is interesting as well:
You can see the contributions centered in the urban areas but also note that West Texas generally favors Republicans and the Valley/El Paso goes for the Democrats. No surprise there, right?
But looking at the underlying data, the total raised in the Valley and El Paso was $1.8 million, of which Hillary Clinton received $1.2 million or 68%, compared to Obama’s $182k or 10%. Again, no surprise, but interesting to look at nonetheless. And it is why McCain continues to reach out to Hispanic voters.
Go check out Tom’s entire post at Houston, We Have Some Cash.
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There may be slight differences in West and South Texas, but I don’t think they are significant.
Good stuff, BJ. It’s nice to see local media developing original reporting like this. LST, like virtually all blogs, does not have resources at their disposal that a local network affiliate would have such as Lexis/Nexis or support staff. It’s about time, but compliments to Tom Abrahams.
Not surprising Austin contributes nearly three times as much to dhimmicrats. San Antonio gives nearly as much to republicans as dhimmicrats which is a surprise. Maybe the hispanic vote is changing.
It is the 10% contributory factor that worries everyone. No wonder, Obama appears to take control of his lead; this while simultaneously Mc Cain is playing “catch up” with his own constituents. Hispanics.
Sure would like to see the 773 and 774 and outside the Dallas city limits. I’ll bet all of that goes really strong GOP.