Apparently, it's rather left here

[ert.livejournal.com]

From a note from fanw, I see that according to FundRace.org, everyone in 02144 who has donated money this political season has given it to Democrats. (Moreover, of 67 donors, I note that about 60% of them gave to Dean.)

This is hardly surprising, but I expected at least one Republican. Even my old neighborhood in San Francisco has Republican donors. I mean, there's a Bush bumper sticker on Wallace St., even as I type. They can't all have been driven from Davis Square.

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[fidgetmonster.livejournal.com]

maybe even the local republicans don't feel the current republican agenda is worth supporting. one can be -against- the democratic agenda, and still not -for- their own party, in the present moment. (or vice versa.) i miss dean :(

There were republicans here, or at least people that voted for bush, in the last election. I remember being curious as to how each district voted, percentage-wise. to be honest, i was a little shocked that there were people in davis who voted republican. but, celebrate diversity is our credo here, so ......

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've given both to Dean and to Kerry, and I live in 02144, and my name's not on there. What's scary, though, is that when I do a search for my last name, 9 records come up, and they all gave to Bush! Blech! I take consolation from the fact that it's almost certain that none of them are related to me.

[cos]

The records on fundrace.org are very incomplete, so it's entirely possible that there were some Republicans in this ZIP code whose donations aren't listed. I think they pretty much have every donation of $200 and up, but I'm not sure. I know they're missing an awful lot of under-$200 donations - including an awful lot of mine.

[ex-meta.livejournal.com]

Maybe Republicans prefer to give via illegal means (http://www.commoncause.org/publications/jan01/020101.htm). No, wait, that's Kerry supporters (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-kerry19feb19,1,745120.story?coll=la-home-headlines)...

[penguin42.livejournal.com]

yeah, I don't think this is a very complete list. I donated to kucinich this year, and I'm not on there.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Either we're amazingly left, or the GOP just hasn't provided any donor data. I don't see any Republicans on opensecrets.org, either.

http://www.opensecrets.org/ziplookup/display.asp?street=&zip=02144&zip4=&show_top_recips=TRUE

[hyperliminal.livejournal.com]

I think they only report donations of over $100 cumulatively to any one candidate (generally, tho I see several lower donations on the list). So maybe the Republicans in 02144 aren't as wealthy as one really ought to be to be a Republican.

In any case my $ to Kucinich didn't show up.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of Republicans listed on fundrace in other zip codes (eg my hometown, 26505, and my husband's, 08540). I think Davis Square is just amazingly left ;). ...surely this doesn't surprise anyone?