The Des Moines Register has an interesting article today, looking at how the candidates did in fundraising in Iowa. Romney led the Republicans and Edwards led the Democrats. So, I thought it would be interesting to see how things look in a few other states.

In New Hampshire, Obama edged out Clinton $49,971 to $45,500. Edwards was third at $25,100. In South Carolina, Edwards far outstripped the competition $186,109 to Clinton’s $36,100 and Obama’s $31,810. Richardson and Biden did relatively well there with $22,000 and $13,000 respectively. In Nevada, it was very strongly Clinton, $317,000 to Obama’s $63,530, Edwards $45,500 and Richardson’s $32,650.

Home states when for their native sons and daughter. In New York, Clinton raised $7,034,167. In Illinois, Obama raised $3,756,756. In North Carolina, Edwards raised $1,421,149. In New Mexico, Richardson raised $2,799,017. The only other state that Richardson was the top fundraiser was Arizona where he raised $71,325. Dodd led in Connecticut with $1,006,410. Biden led in Delaware with $279,000. Those were the only two states where Dodd and Biden led.

Using a neat little Web 2.0 tool to mashup states, it was very easy to create maps showing where Obama, Clinton, and Edwards lead.

Obama:

Clinton

Edwards

I’ll leave the interpretation of these maps as an exercise for the readers.

Note about the methodology: I downloaded the files from these candidate from the FEC website. It was a fairly long and tedious process so I didn’t bother with Kucinich or Gravel. I might go back and check them later. Using the Filter Table functionality, I extracted the SA17A records for type IND, which I understand to be the individual donations. I then used a pivot table to break it down on a state by state basis showing what I understand to be the amount available for the primary. I then combined the individual pivot tables into a single table for comparison. My numbers checked out with the Des Moines Register’s numbers, so I know that at least they used a similar methodology.
(Cross posted to Greater Democracy)