This document is an examination of the 2016 Presidential Campaign funding of the four leading candidates. Via processing data from “http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2016/M3/C00577130/B_PAYEE_C00577130.html” in the R programming language, the document displays information about one month of disbursements from the donation funds of the four campaigns.

The campaigns examined are the campaigns of Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz.

Number of Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Payees =

## 3078

Bernie Sanders Campaign Top 20 Payees:

##                                        PAYEE        SUM
## 1                        Old Towne Media Inc 19932097.7
## 2                  Revolution Messaging, LLC  3363853.3
## 3                           Air Charter Team  1659181.5
## 4                Act Blue Technical Services  1519341.4
## 5        Convergence Targeted Communications  1448075.2
## 6                 Solidarity Strategies, LLC   958188.2
## 7               Devine Mulvey Longabaugh Inc   810211.4
## 8                           Tulchin Research   767776.6
## 9                               Paychex, Inc   767556.9
## 10                   Tigereye Promotions LLC   622364.0
## 11                                   Egencia   620814.8
## 12              West Coast Audio Visual, LLC   448940.9
## 13             Production Management One LLC   376820.0
## 14                              Mammen Group   316435.9
## 15               Enterprise Rent A Car HDQTR   239257.3
## 16         Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont   216940.2
## 17                           Garner Printing   215298.4
## 18                           Amazon.com HDQT   139041.0
## 19                      Firehouse Phones.com   121965.9
## 20 National Newspaper Publishers Association   120884.0

Bernie Sanders Campaign Total Disbursements =

## $40,851,242

Graph of Bernie Sanders Campaign Top Disbursements, 2 - 11, (without the #1 payee, “Old Towne Media”):

Number of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Payees =

## 2049

Hillary Clinton Campaign Top 20 Payees:

##                                  PAYEE         SUM
## 1                                 GMMB 16604798.72
## 2                Mission Control, Inc.  2465007.41
## 3                                  ADP  1578568.33
## 4                  Executive Fliteways  1488675.62
## 5         Bully Pulpit Interactive LLC  1040000.00
## 6                               Stripe   301550.57
## 7                                Aetna   293652.97
## 8    Forest City Pierrepont Associates   220282.76
## 9  Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, Inc.   175768.00
## 10             Benenson Strategy Group   161696.00
## 11                Precision Strategies   142102.95
## 12                                 CDW   137047.58
## 13             Grunwald Communications   136127.27
## 14      Elite Productions Services LLC   135374.00
## 15        Dixon/Davis Media Group, LLC   117761.00
## 16                      Delta Airlines   110218.25
## 17                   American Airlines   109254.92
## 18          Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.    98000.00
## 19                    Power Moves Inc.    91800.00
## 20                              Amazon    88081.74

Hillary Clinton Campaign Total Disbursements =

## $31,527,930

Graph of Hillary Clinton Campaign Top Disbursements, 2 - 11, (without the #1 payee, “GMMB”):

Number of Donald Trump’s Campaign Payees =

## 387

Donald Trump Campaign Top 20 Payees:

##                                 PAYEE        SUM
## 1               RICK REED MEDIA, INC. 3458760.00
## 2                       TAG AIR, INC.  641840.00
## 3             WIZBANG SOLUTIONS, INC.  624550.92
## 4                    AMERICAN EXPRESS  540046.91
## 5                      GILES-PARSCALE  527766.26
## 6               PATRIOT SIGNAGE, INC.  404460.00
## 7                ACE SPECIALTIES, LLC  379793.54
## 8                DIRECT RESPONSE, LLC  261809.89
## 9              NATIONAL BALLOT ACCESS  203127.50
## 10  AON RISK SERVICES NORTHEAST, INC.  175441.00
## 11                          CALI-FAME  146937.94
## 12               SUNSET AVIATION, LLC  104806.12
## 13 PRODUCTION DESIGN ASSOCIATES, INC.   99405.77
## 14                          INSPERITY   81072.58
## 15      GREEN MONSTER CONSULTING, LLC   75000.00
## 16                          JONES DAY   73828.97
## 17              FAST LANE PRODUCTIONS   70420.00
## 18                             STRIPE   46330.52
## 19                     SUN DOME, INC.   45677.73
## 20          FRED RICCI TOOL CO., INC.   41610.75

Donald Trump Campaign Total Disbursements =

## $10,022,169

Graph of Donald Trump Campaign Top Disbursements, 2 - 11, (without the #1 payee, “RICK REED MEDIA”):

Number of Ted Cruz’s Campaign Payees =

## 438

Ted Cruz Campaign Top 20 Payees:

##                              PAYEE        SUM
## 1                   WESTROGERS LLC 8042208.80
## 2                 TARGETED VICTORY 2639099.14
## 3                 AXIOM STRATEGIES 1105679.14
## 4               CAMPAIGN SOLUTIONS 1023841.08
## 5               THE LUKENS COMPANY  869045.83
## 6              CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA  476910.17
## 7             WILSON PERKINS ALLEN  412331.74
## 8                       CAMPAIGNHQ  346597.19
## 9                             CMDI  234076.04
## 10            COURAGEOUS MEDIA LLC  157265.90
## 11           MAJIC PRODUCTIONS INC  148935.72
## 12          ONE STOP CAMPAIGN SHOP  143151.29
## 13                   ASE GROUP INC  119551.64
## 14          ADVANCED AVIATION TEAM  113261.85
## 15        PRIME MEDIA PARTNERS LLC  110148.64
## 16        MARRIOTT WEST DES MOINES   80279.93
## 17  HERZOG CONTRACTING CORPORATION   79855.28
## 18                       INSPERITY   60648.84
## 19 OVERWATCH SECURITY SERVICES INC   58123.77
## 20                        I360 LLC   52599.44

Ted Cruz Campaign Total Disbursements =

## $17,476,569

Graph of Ted Cruz Campaign Top Disbursements, 2 - 11, (without the #1 payee, “WESTROGERS LLC”):