The Presidential Fundraising Race

The New York Times has a great "Compare the Candidates" tool for the 2012 presidential race. Due to our own fiduciary responsibilities to our clients, I can't show all our sexy presidential fundraising data but I am pleased the NY Times has taken the donor data ball and run with it.One of the interesting political fundraising tidbits is how this cycle compares to the same time last cycle. One thing that I saw a lot of last cycle was that donors were making max-out gifts (the largest donation you can make as designated by the FEC) to numerous campaigns. This cycle, the economy must have put the squeeze on many donors and they are only backing a single candidate... and only after that candidate demonstrates that they are viable.Its always fun with economics and politics collide. I think we'll see allot of eco-politics (or is it poli-nomics?) this year.