Election Overview ... who give contributions large enough to be itemized (over  $200) is even smaller. ... of federal contributions by the top 1 percent of 1 percent  of the population in the ... Pct of US female adult population giving $200+, 0.41%  ... has raised a higher percentage of her campaign funds from women than any ...
Nov 2, 2018 ... Congressional midterm election spending will likely hit a record $5 billion. But the  spending masks the main problem with US campaign financing: ... Barely one- half of 1 percent of the adult population has given $200 or more in ... Yet  collectively they have accounted for more than 66 percent of campaign ...
Dec 8, 2016 ... The Distorting Influence of the Political Donor Class in Our Big-Money Elections  ... Only 3 percent of the U.S. population possesses more than $1,000,000 in  wealth. ... The pool of donors who give more than $1,000 has less gender ..... As  Figure 1 shows, the highest echelons of the donor pool are the least ...
Dec 13, 2011 ... In the 2010 election cycle, 26,783 individuals (or slightly less than one in ten  thousand Americans) each contributed more than $10,000 to federal political ... In  a world of increasingly expensive campaigns, The One Percent of the One ...  itemized (over $200) contributions (of those running in that election, ...
Jul 30, 2014 ... More money is being spent on US politics than ever before ... Federal lobbying  spending has also doubled in the same period. ... This infographic from Good  Magazine shows that in 2010, only 0.26 percent of the US population — about ...  of his campaign funds from donors who gave less than $200 overall, ...
Less than 1 percent of 1 percent of the American population has given an amount over $200 to a federal political campaign.