It's really quite educational. We have never before been able to so easily and instantly see who's money is going where. They are also sorted by industry, labor and ideology categories. The San Diego dollars voting in the Presidential race are voting in the main for Bush. You can get lists of the top ten ZIPs in gross contributions.
Times are good.
Donations in all the ZIPs I randomly checked were up, up, up from even '96, the last general presidential election. What it will mean is less clear. It certainly allows you to see - clearer than ever before who's paying to fund our federal political campaign process. Every consultant in the world now has a list of everyone's higher-levels donors, and you know exactly how much they gave. The demands for funding never end and they always go up.