In North Dakota Forget Money. Politics Is Different.

[North Dakota] has trailed the nation in large donations per capita to the presidential candidates, an analysis of the candidates’ early contributions of $200 or more shows. While donors in New York gave more than $48 million (or more than $2.50 a person, if every person in the state gave) and California gave more than $51 million (or more than $1.40 for each person), North Dakotans offered up a grand total of $57,613. That amounts to 9 cents a person. “Well, that’s 9 cents more than I gave,” Clark D. Crawford, an undecided voter, said as he ate chili in a Bismarck coffee shop. “You can’t change an election by giving a hundred bucks or a thousand bucks. And you wouldn’t want to anyway. It’s like a bribe.”

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