PoliticalBase.com has a great new site that maps Federal political contributions onto google maps. You can search by race type, candidate, party, ZIP, and a bunch of other stuff and then embed the maps or tables in a blog post. For example, here's all the 2008 Presidential donations for ZIP Code 61820:
Person |
Party | Contributed To | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharon Aday 502 W Hill St #105 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Not Employed @ Not Employed |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jul 5, 2007 | $25 |
| Sharon Aday 502 W Hill St #105 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Not Employed @ Not Employed |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Aug 5, 2007 | $25 |
| Sharon Aday 502 W Hill St #105 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Not Employed @ Not Employed |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Sep 5, 2007 | $25 |
| Ms. Dorothy A Baker 6 Litchfield Ln Champaign, Illinois 61820 Retired @ Not Employed |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Mar 1, 2007 | $1,000 |
| Melina Barona 211 W Beardsley Ave Champaign, Illinois 61820 Academic Professional @ Uiuc |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jul 27, 2007 | $200 |
| Mr. David W. Barr 1710 S. Neil Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Barr Real Estate |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Aug 31, 2007 | $500 |
| Mr. Leslie Barr 1710 S. Neil Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Information Requested Per Best Effo @ Information Requested Per Best Effo |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Sep 26, 2007 | $1,800 |
| Elizabeth Barstead 602 Haines Blvd Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Hendrick Dorms Inc. |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Apr 5, 2007 | $1,000 |
| Elizabeth Barstead 602 Haines Blvd Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Hendrick Dorms Inc. |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jun 28, 2007 | $2,000 |
| Elizabeth Barstead 602 Haines Blvd Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Hendrick Dorms Inc. |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jun 28, 2007 | $700 |
| Elizabeth Barstead 602 Haines Blvd Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Hendrick Dorms Inc. |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jun 28, 2007 | $-700 |
| Mr. David C. Eades 5 Lyndhurst Place Champaign, Illinois 61820 Retired |
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Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008 |
Jun 11, 2007 | $1,000 |
| Mr. Jeffrey Hartman 505 S. 5th Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Apt. Owner/Investor @ Self-Employed |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Sep 13, 2007 | $2,300 |
| Stanley O Ikenberry 1310 S 6th St # 347 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Regent Professor @ Univ.111@Urbaaa-Champaign |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Aug 10, 2007 | $1,000 |
| Gina A Jackson 907 N 5th St Champaign, Illinois 61820 Retired @ Not Employed |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Aug 10, 2007 | $1,000 |
| Pauline Kayes 712 S Prairie St Champaign, Illinois 61820 College Professor @ Parkland College |
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Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 |
Jan 22, 2007 | $250 |
| Pauline Kayes 712 S Prairie St Champaign, Illinois 61820 College Professor @ Parkland College |
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Hillary Clinton for President in 2008 |
Sep 7, 2007 | $300 |
| Don Kleinmuntz 2001 S 1st St Ste 200 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Executive Vice President @ Strata Decision Technology |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Feb 21, 2007 | $250 |
| Mr. James J. Liautaud 2212 Fox Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820 Chairman & C.E.O. @ Jimmy John'S |
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Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008 |
Aug 29, 2007 | $2,300 |
| Mr. Xi Lin 401 E Chalmers Apt 320 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Teaching Assistant @ University Of Illinois At Urbana-Ch |
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Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008 |
Apr 18, 2007 | $250 |
| Ms. Jeanette Mccollum 409 W Hill St Champaign, Illinois 61820 Professor @ University Of Il |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Sep 21, 2007 | $50 |
| Mr. Carlos A. Nieto 6 Taylor Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Owner @ Self-Employed |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Sep 12, 2007 | $2,200 |
| Michael Richards 409 W Columbia Ave Apt 2 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Information Requested @ Michael Richards Consulting |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Jun 8, 2007 | $2,300 |
| Yvette Scheven 107 N Elm St Apt 202 Champaign, Illinois 61820 Information Requested @ Information Requested |
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Barack Obama for President in 2008 |
Aug 10, 2007 | $250 |
| Mr. Rodrick L. Schmidt 1605 S. Statesuite 112 Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Royal Properties |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Aug 31, 2007 | $2,300 |
| Mr. Jeffrey B. Wampler 627 E. Greenp.O. Box 1098 Champaign, Illinois 61820 President @ Sterling Management |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Sep 18, 2007 | $2,300 |
| Mr. Joseph D. Wampler 701 Devonshire Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820 Information Requested Per Best Effo @ Information Requested Per Best Effo |
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Mitt Romney for President in 2008 |
Sep 26, 2007 | $500 |
This is cool stuff - as voters and citizens and bloggers, we need more tools like this and less crappy, heavy-handed unconstitutional regulations like McCain-Feingold.
Am I the only one surprised by the large number amount of Romney donations?
--gamera (out of town and on a strange computer)
Romney just did a fundraiser here in Champaign.
I think he's the only candidate to have actually been here so far.
I just checked it out. It's cool, but the site has a lot of errors, too. It had my profession wrong, for example, and it has my sister listed at an address she hasn't lived at in ten years. It also has no clue what she does for a living, although she owns a company here in town. Does anyone know where this information comes from?
"It also has no clue what she does for a living, although she owns a company here in town. Does anyone know where this information comes from?"
It comes from the disclosures filed by the campaigns themselves - so if they listed an occupation/employer, that data will be included, but if the campaigns don't include something, or have something wrong, those errors get passed through.
Pres. White gave $1,000 to Obama. Just look at 61801, almost all professors... all to the dems. so diverse. It's fun counting how few professors give to Republicans and how many give to Democrats. I guess they vote Dem because they are very lerned and open minded.
Or perhaps they vote Dem because they feel that the Democratic candidates that they are giving their money to represent them better than the Republican candidates do? Just a guess.
Kem
Accurate guess, the left does a great job supporting each other, be interesting to see the media moguls contributions to finish off the trilogy.
A few persons contributed to both a Democratic and Republican
Examples:
Prof. William M. Calder, Iii
609 W. Delaware Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
University Professor @ U. I. U. C. $450 to Obama and $250 to Romney
Mr. Peter B. Fox
1118 W. Armory Street
Champaign, Illinois 61821
Owner/C.E.O. @ Fox Development $1000 Edwards; $2300 Romney
Mr. Robert Laursen
2405 N Nottinghtmsa Ct
Champaign, Illinois 61821
Retired $200 Edwards; $300 McCain
Michael Fuerst
Pres. White may understand that just about everyone in Illinois that is a democrat is supporting Obama and wants to show support so the U of I gets support from the democrats that run the state, or he just likes him.
Very interesting. I'm no longer so sure that my mom would want me to eat at Jimmy John's.
And it's nice to have one more reason to stay the heck out of those Carlosbars downtown.
I'm opposed to any database that allows searches based on race. Are you kidding me? What's next, a database with a religion field?
I don't think he means race as in race but race as in type of race - president, senator, representative.......
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