codefag checking in. I'm in Warnock/Abrahams territory.
I'm sure everyone knows about O'Keefe's latest with the ActBlue donations. I discovered how to DL the CSV data for my zipcode from the FEC website so that I could take a closer look. There were over 29k records and it wasn't practical to do anything with it in excel etc. I wrote some code to ingest the data just to see if anything crazy fell out. Well I just got done doing some simple passes at the data and it does look like something weird is going on with ActBlue, the dems and UNEMPLOYED donations.
Here's an anonfile link to the results for my zipcode. https://anonfiles.com/yee5O8k3z0/schedule_a_2023_04_06T12_26_55_txt
The top results till the donations go below $10k. '*' means the unemployed donations were over 25%
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Ingesting CSV data at [schedule_a-2023-04-06T12_26_55.csv]
[29718] CSV records read
C00694323 : WINRED : [7142 donors $228,428.80]
10 unemployed donated $1,305.00 [0.57%]
C00401224 : ACTBLUE : [16924 donors $215,766.12]
* 9822 unemployed donated $116,197.44 [53.85%]
C00736876 : WARNOCK FOR GEORGIA : [635 donors $37,274.59]
* 379 unemployed donated $18,179.01 [48.77%]
C00787853 : TEAM HERSCHEL, INC : [194 donors $36,679.41]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00770941 : TRUMP SAVE AMERICA JOINT FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE : [333 donors $19,097.35]
26 unemployed donated $640.00 [3.35%]
C00776328 : GEORGIANS FOR LATHAM, INC. : [9 donors $16,000.00]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00284885 : THE HOME DEPOT INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE : [485 donors $15,534.37]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00075820 : NRCC : [278 donors $14,983.45]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00027466 : NRSC : [196 donors $14,814.65]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00762591 : SAVE AMERICA : [284 donors $14,667.11]
4 unemployed donated $108.00 [0.74%]
C00003418 : REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE : [289 donors $13,727.33]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00781922 : MALLORY STAPLES FOR CONGRESS : [6 donors $12,600.00]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00784306 : JAKE EVANS FOR CONGRESS, INC. : [16 donors $11,294.05]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
C00144774 : SOUTHERN COMPANY EMPLOYEES PAC : [22 donors $10,872.16]
0 unemployed donated $0.00 [0.00%]
… more at the anonfile link.
Can I get some eyes on this to see if I'm just imagining these numbers being so slanted?