by Todd Beeton

The LA Times has an interesting piece about Southern California's disproportionate contribution to the presidential fundraising game. It has a cool interactive function where you can check out candidate contributions by zipcode.

For example, in mine, the 91201, which is in Glendale in the San Fernando Valley just northeast of Hollywood, 60% of donations went to Romney and 33% went to Obama. The total raised by candidates here was only about $3300. Throughout all of SoCal, Romney raised an impressive $1.9m, which was 9.2% of his national total and only $500k less than Obama raised here, an amount that was 7.7% of his national total.

It also shows you the top 20 zip codes from 90210 ($765,425, 40% of which went to Clinton,) down to 90405 in Santa Monica ($97,251, 39% of which went to Clinton.) Clinton had the largest SoCal haul, taking in $2,865,475 or 11% of her national total.