FlowingData - Where Campaign Spending is Going to

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Contents: Where Campaign Spending is Going to Where Campaign Spending is Going to Mar 28, 2012 12:39 am  •  Permalink Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York Times Campaign Finance API, ProPublica takes a closer look at where campaign contribution is going. Many have been detailing the vast sums being raised by the presidential candidates and the super PACs supporting them. But where are all those millions being spent? Among other things, the answers can provide hints on potential improper coordination between campaigns and super PACs. Here are the 200 biggest recipients of spending by the major campaigns and most of the major super PACs. It's a sankey diagram with campaigns and Super PACs on one side and payees on the other. (I rotated the image above clockwise.) Select a campaign to see what they've spent their money on, or select a payee to see who's paying them. As I browsed through payees, my next question was what these companies, organizations, and people do since $377,222 from Obama for America to a company called PDR II DBA Share Share doesn't mean much to me. I haven't looked at FEC data in a while, but I vaguely remember a way to categorize spending. Find more information on the making of this graphic here. Sponsored by: More to read: Perpetual Ocean What News Sites People are Reading, by State Custom Woodcut Maps Inception Explained in Animated Infographic How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries  follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2012 FlowingData, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on FlowingData. Our mailing address is: FlowingData PO Box 3381 Livermore, CA 94550 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences