Small dollar donations are defined according to United States campaign finance law as contributions to a candidate's political campaign or a political action committee which are between $1 and $200.
In US primary elections, the quantity of small dollar donations made to a candidate's political campaign has been used as a metric to measure popular support. (Higher individual donations (up to $3,300 for the 2023-2024 cycle) or corporate contributions were more common in past decades.) Small dollar donations are also used by the dominant US parties—the Republican Party and the Democratic Party—as a benchmark (along with an overall polling support minimum) to qualify primary candidates for televised debate events.
See also
References
- Open Secrets. "Large Versus Small Individual Donations". OpenSecrets. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- "Biden re-elect a new test for record-breaking small-dollar operation". NBC News. April 27, 2023.
- OpenSecrets. "Contribution Limits". OpenSecrets. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- "Battle for small donors forces 2020 Democrats to get creative with merchandise". CBS News. November 5, 2019.
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