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> 56% of political contributions directly to candidates from private donors who gave over $100,000, went to Democrats.

> NPR is an ally of the preferred political party of the rich.

In order to infer the second statement from the first, first you have to demonstrate that >50% of political donors (not donations) of greater than $100,000 were from Democrats. Perhaps Democract-leaning donors were merely motivated to make a bunch of donations over $100k, while Republican-leaning donors made fewer donations per donor.

It would be even better if you demonstrated that >50% of political donors above a certain wealth threshold gave to Democrats over Republicans



The website I linked bins per-donor, not per-donation. Of donations from donors who gave over $100,000 total, more went to Democrats than to Republicans.


> Of donors giving more than $100,000 to a candidate or party, 19.09% favored Democrats and 15.02% gave to Republicans.

The really interesting thing in that website is that big spenders favor PACs over either party.

And Democrats win out with donations over Republicans in all monetary categories, not just the $100k+.





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