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Walt Hickey, FiveThirtyEight
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 5:35am

Significant Digits For Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2016

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the telling numbers tucked inside the news. Today is Super Tuesday, so buckle up for a lot of FiveThirtyEight links in this one.$2.00Per-capita campaign contributions from Vermont, the highest level in the country outside of the District of Columbia. (Vermont knows how to back a hometown candidate.) Among the big states, New York had the highest per-capita contribution, about $1.39 per person.

 

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