VPAP: Obama Outpaces Romney in Woodbridge Large Donors
Both candidates raise nearly $2 million from donations greater than $200, but Romney has $100,000 lead
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President Barack Obama and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney have each raised nearly $2 million from Virginia residents who have given at least $200, but the former Massachusetts governor has a $100,000 edge, according to a new report by a nonpartisan group tracking campaign funds.
More than half of the funds raised by each candidate between January and May have come from Northern Virginia according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
Romney has raised $1.9 million from those who have given at least $200 — 78 percent of it from Northern Virginia, according to VPAP. Obama has raised $1.8 million, 70 percent of which is from Northern Virginia, according to VPAP.
Romney has raised a total of $3.8 million from large and small donors in Virginia. Obama has raised a total of $3.6 million from Virginia donors large and small, according to the latest report from Open Secrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions.
The VPAP analysis of donations from large contributors comes as both campaigns are deploying their campaign workers across Virginia, which experts predict will be one of this election's most important battleground states.
According to the U.S. Census, the median household income for all of Prince William County is $91,098.
| Obama | Romney | |
| Total Virginia: | $1.8 million | $1.9 million |
| Eastern Prince William County: | $31,583 | $15,520 |
| ZIP code 22192: | $13,424 | $7,770 |
| ZIP code 22191: | $9,600 | $3,250 |
| ZIP code 22193: | $8,559 | $4,500 |
| Fund Raising by Region | Obama | Romney |
| Capital Region | $164,665 | $106,624 |
| Coalfields/Southwest | $7,200 | $37,750 |
| I-95 Corridor | $20,850 | $16,554 |
| Inside the Beltway | $736,318 | $820,158 |
| Northern Virginia | $604,321 | $743,778 |
| Peninsula | $30,176 | $38,082 |
| Piedmont | $145,521 | $39,150 |
| Roanoke/New River | $39,385 | $47,200 |
| Shenandoah Valley | $22,994 | $32,525 |
| South Hampton Roads | $54,070 | $57,315 |
| Southside | $2,300 | $7,525 |
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Blue Skies
8:58 am on Monday, July 16, 2012
Your headline for this article is totally bogus. Nowhere in the article does it say that Obama has out raised Romney, in fact, just the opposite. Why is this publication in the tank for Obama???
Lauren Jost
9:02 am on Monday, July 16, 2012
Blue Skies,
The headline states that Obama has outpaced Romney in Woodbridge. In the Woodbridge area ZIP codes (22192, 22191 and 22193) Obama has culled more funds than Romney ($31,583) and ($15,520). Across Virginia, Romney is in the lead. That's supported by the article text and fundraising numbers.
RME KRNL
9:01 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012
To Lauren Jost:
"The headline states that Obama has outpaced Romney in Woodbridge. ... Across Virginia, Romney is in the lead."
Then, isn't the latter point the more relevant one and what the article, and its title, should be about? I agree, the title is misleading about most of the article's content.
Lolly Marie
12:07 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012
Conservatives are so used to "confirmation bias" style reporting that anything factual and truly neutral alarms them.
Alex E. Cahn
3:02 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012
The figures used are extremely misleading. That's because a very large number of Obama's support is going directly to his campaign, while very large and often secret donations from millionaires and billionaires are going to PAC that aren't OFFICIALLY linked to Romney's campaign. The "biggest of the big money" supports the GOP because they want to keep their major tax breaks, loopholes and other advantages over average taxpayers.
Also, I'm amazed that things are so close in the presidential race. Romney signed forms saying he was CEO and chair of Bain capital for several years after he now claims he had left. And if he really did leave, then why was the corporation still paying him $100,000 per year??? He has also only released one tax return (and one estimate) while both Obama and Biden released ten or more years of returns long ago. What is he hiding? Oh, and to top it off, Rmoney and his wife took a $77,000 tax deduction for their DANCING HORSE! Seriously. Anyone else here ever take a write-off for a dancing horse? Do we want as president someone who claims he wasn't working at a company that was still paying him $100K per year while closing factories and sending jobs to other countries???
In addition, Obama offered the GOP several compromises to reach a deal to cut the deficit, including offering $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in taxes on the richest of the rich. The GOP said no while attacking Obama and claiming he was the one refusing to compromise!!!