| Figure 1: A map of what counties and states support Bernie Sanders relative to that of Hillary Clinton in January 2016. |
As of the end of January 2016, 88% of states have more reported contributions to the Sanders campaign than to the Clinton campaign.
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| Figure 2: A map of what counties and states support Bernie Sanders relative to that of Hillary Clinton in December 2015. |
This is a significant growth from December which only reported 75% of states backing Sanders.
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| Figure 3: A map of what counties and states support Bernie Sanders relative to that of Hillary Clinton in November 2015. |
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| Figure 4: Going back to June we can see that the vast majority of states primarily backed Hillary. Sanders was initially very poorly known outside of New England. |
From the figures we can see that Nevada is the least supportive state among western states of Sanders while Iowa has been about equally favorably disposed to Sanders as surrounding states. The South continues to be the strongest region of the country supporting Hillary Clinton while the just about everywhere else is beginning to lean increasingly towards Sanders.
We should remember when looking at these maps that using itemized contribution data underestimates the number of individual contributors and contributions as only large donations need to be logged. Bernie Sanders has many more small contributors that are not individually reported than Hillary Clinton, constituting about 74% of his contributions while Hillary Clinton only has about 16% of …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com