{"id":2561,"date":"2010-02-02T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2010-02-02T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:03:00","slug":"the-200-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"The $200 Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2009 fundraising numbers are out. The good news for the Liberals is that they’ve closed the fundraising gap. The bad news? It’s still an 8 million dollar gap, which grows to about 11 million when you consider the per-vote subsidies.<\/p>\n

Via Pundits’ Guide<\/a>, here’s a look at the year-over-year numbers, since Harper cut the donation cap:
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Pundits Guide also has the dollar breakdown<\/a> – it’s not perfect since this still includes “double dip” donations, but it clearly shows the Tory advantage remains on the small donation front. The Liberals actually out-raised the Conservatives slightly on donations over $200, but the Tories hold a commanding $12 million to $3 million lead when it comes to the small cheques.<\/p>\n

So, despite some incredible progress in 2009, there’s still a lot of work to be done.<\/p>\n

(And, you know, if you’re so inclined to help close the gap, just <\/em>click through here<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2009 fundraising numbers are out. The good news for the Liberals is that they’ve closed the fundraising gap. The bad news? It’s still an 8 million dollar gap, which grows to about 11 million when you consider the per-vote subsidies. Via Pundits’ Guide, here’s a look at the year-over-year numbers, since Harper cut the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}