Back in July, our sister site RealtyHop took a look at the presidential candidates\u2019 filed fundraising numbers for the second quarter. We then stated, by looking at the numbers (and numbers don\u2019t lie), that based on the fundraising numbers only five of the Democratic presidential candidates truly had a shot. As the campaign finance data for the third quarter has now been released, we can take another close look to see if the trend has changed.<\/p>\n
The previous study analyzed individual donations in the 30 most populous U.S. cities. This time around we took a deeper look at the individual donations on a state, county, and zip code level, including Massachusetts. We chose specifically to rank zip codes by unique donor counts instead of dollar amounts, as we feel this better represents how many people support each candidate.<\/p>\n
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The interactive map and graph below show the share of unique donors each of the top 10 candidates has in zip codes across Massachusetts. More detailed, the map shows where each zip code stands, politically, and which presidential candidate is the front-runner in each zip code. In terms of the color shades, purple areas are whether neither the 19 Democratic candidates combined nor Trump has more than 55% of the donors. Light blue and light red represent zip codes where the party has 55% to 70% of the donors, and blue or red represents a majority of 70% and more.<\/p>\n