As of 9 p.m. Pacific Time, there are 3,817 separate donations totaling $17,359.220.38 at this site. Of those, 1,701 (31%) have been identified as either positively LDS, possibly LDS or definitely not LDS.
Donors who are definitely not LDS make up less than one percent of the donors identified (54 positively non-LDS donors) and represent $5,372,187.26 (31% of total donations).
Donors who are definitely LDS make up about 43% of the donors (1,630 positively LDS) and represent $6,440,633.01 (37% of the total).
There are an additional 17 donors who are probably LDS and represent $73,006.42 (less than 1% of the total).
We have a ways to go to identify the other 3800 donors who may or may not be Mormon. Check out the spreadsheet to see if you recognize which donors fit into which religious category.
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Do you have any data on the religious preference of prop 22 voters?
It would be interesting to see what members of different churches have “changed their minds” from 8 years ago.
I guess if there’s a decline in support it must be due to the fact that people were either unenlightened before or they have easily malleable morals.
Most of their churches haven’t changed their positions between then and now.
There are two links to some of the Prop 22 donations in the blogroll. Anyone with the time and energy is welcome to compare the donation lists and/or add religious membership information to the Prop 22 donors. It would be an interesting comparison.
There are about 9,450 donations in the two lists linked to, and their contributions totaled just more than $5.8 million. Of those donations, only 50 were equal to or greater than $10,000. Granted, this information is incomplete, as there was a bit more than $8.4 million spent supporting Prop 22 in 2000.
However, Prop 8 spending has dwarfed Prop 22 spending already, both in donation totals (currently nearly $17.5 million) and in numbers of donors giving large sums of money (more than 200 at last count), and it’s still more than one month away from the election, not to mention that we haven’t even begun to look at donors who’ve only spent between $100 and $999.99.
In 2000, the smaller donors (which haven’t been reported on here yet) made up about half of the total donations.
It’s probably safe to say that the churches which have not changed their positions have changed their abilities to get congregants to donate time and money to the cause.
It will be interesting to see how many of the Prop 8 donors who’ve invested $10,000 or more end up being LDS donors.