Among individuals it was Bachmann gaining $189,000 against Tinklenberg's $163,000 (besting Tinklenberg's total by 116%).
Among special interest donations, Bachmann totaled $193,000 while Tinklenberg, (depite all his unions that in the first quarter substantially out spent individuals giving to Tinklenberg by a large margin), managed $109,000 from special interests (i.e., Bachmann's special interest haul was 177% greater than Tinklenberg's special interest number).
Numerically, she cleaned his clock across the board and has $1.3 million cash on hand at present to his low six-figure war chest. She is standing tall, for a tiny person. They are not even close as to funds on hand, which trnaslates into ad buying power.
As to a split between individuals/interests; Tinklenberg showed individuals gave 60% of his second quarter donations, leading Bachmann's 49.5% from individuals. That she got almost half her money this quarter that way is surprising, and Tinklenberg's higher percentage this quarter is a drastic departure from his first quarter split, where the Union PACs carried him for that period, and what little individual money he got then was almost exclusively out-of-district. Briefly looking at his FEC reporting, he appears better placed among Minnesota donors than out of state this quarter, compared to the first quarter, but it would be hard to not improve that way, given the substantial out of state (and out of district) funding he attained first quarter.
And to understand politics:
from the musical: Cabaret
Money makes the world go around,
the world go around, the world go around,
Money makes the world go around,
it makes the world go round.
A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound,
a buck or a pound, a buck or a pound,
Is all that makes the world go around,
that clinking clanking sound,
Can make the world go round.
I did not do breaks or percentages, in state vs out, in district vs. out, for either candidate. That would require a detailed look at FEC report pages, whereas I relied upon a trusted and unimpeachably reliable blog source.
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NOTE: numbers were taken from Blue Man's post, here, without FEC site verification (and rounded off to the nearest thousand dollars).
photo from here, lyrics, here
