2016 Postmortem
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((Hence all of the "free stuff" derision from Hillary lately? Trying to squeeze some more money out of those Romney donors? ~ JP))
Hillary Clinton Is Backed by Major Republican Donors
An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romneys campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of listed here in declining order below Clinton Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, or Jim Gilmore. Those major Romney donors also gave a little to two Democrats (other than to Hillary who, as mentioned, received a lot of donations from these Republican donors): Martin OMalley, Jim Web, and Lawrence Lessig. (Romneys donors gave nothing to Bernie Sanders, and nothing to Elizabeth Warren. They dont want either of those people to become President.)
Clinton is the only Democratic candidate who is even moderately attractive to big Republican donors.
In ascending order above Clinton, Romneys donors were donating to: John Kasich, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Jeb Bush. The top trio of Bush, Cruz, and Rubio together, received around 60% of all the money donated for the 2016 race by the people who had funded Mitt Romneys 2012 drive for the White House.
So: the Democrat Hillary Clinton scored above 14 candidates, and below 6 candidates. She was below 6 Republican candidates, and she was above 11 Republican candidates (Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, George Pataki, and Jim Gilmore). The 6 candidates she scored below were: Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, and John Kasich.
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http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/02/22/hillary-clinton-is-backed-by-major-republican-donors/