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This Land is Our Land: The Interstate Highways of Individual Political Donors

Combining data from 2 major houses, the report featured in this article gives us a glimpse into the trend of individual political donating with a more national scope, akin to PACs.

Donors may go out of state to:
1) support an issue in a state where it typically does not get a lot of coverage, 2) strike up support on a divisive issue in a state that is considered a weather vane for the nation, 3) influence presidential election swing states.

Manipulation, or passionate support of big causes?