USA Today has the article Bernie Sanders raises $18.2 million in first quarter for 2020 presidential campaign.
- 88 percent of money came from people who have given $200 or less.
At last, a meaningful measure that I have been wanting to see. I think this measure is much harder to manipulate by the candidate than quoting the size of the average donation. The average donation can be made to appear much smaller by the candidate asking for a flood of $1 donations while still depending for most of the money raised to come from a small number of large donations. In the fudged number case, the large donors still have a much larger voice with the candidate than any one of the small donors.
This may be the one article that is the exception to my “law”.
If a news item has a number in it, then it is probably misleading.