Election 2012 » Money in Politics http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012 KQED News & The California Report Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:23:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Map: Money Flowing to California Propositions by State http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/10/29/follow-the-money-visually/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=follow-the-money-visually http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/10/29/follow-the-money-visually/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:23:09 +0000 Lisa Aliferis http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/?p=4858 Continue reading →]]> In a post-Citizens United world, keeping track of money in politics is more critical than ever. Now the great people at Peninsula Press have crunched data from the California Secretary of State — donations to any campaign for-or-against any of the 11 propositions on the November ballot.

Peninsula Press then joined that money data with U.S. zip codes so anyone can look, interactively, at how much money is flowing to proposition campaigns, from California and from across the country. Pick your prop and take a look. How much is the rest of the country donating heavily to props here at home?

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