President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry.
In comparison, GOP nominee Mitt Romney
has gotten a shade under $500,000 from us. This disparity is no surprise, of
course. San Francisco is very blue, in addition to having plenty of green to give away. But the Obama love and the wealth are not uniform across the city's 25 zip codes.
Perhaps expectedly, the "First Gay President's" top district is Castro and Noe Valley (94114), which has given him $248,048 this donating cycle. The area was not only the most generous, but the most loyal to their liberal president: Romney only garnered $10,650 from Castro and Noe Valley neighbors. The other two zip codes in the $200k range include 94118 (Inner Richmond), which gave $243,693, and 94115 (Pacific Heights, Western Addition, Japantown), which kicked in $212,982.
Contrary to what you might think, there was actually one zip code that favored Romney: the city's Financial District (94104) where the former Massachusetts Governor slid past Obama, collecting $31,500 to the president's $30,137.
Here's the all-inclusive list via OpenSecrets.org data, with Romney's totals in brackets:
94114 (Castro, Noe Valley) -- $248,048 [$10,650]
94118 (Inner Richmond) -- $243,693 [$65,650]
94115 (Pacific Heights, Western Addition, Japantown) -- $212,982 [$69,950]
94117 (Haight Ashbury, Cole Valley) -- $183,561 [$13,000]
94109 (Nob Hill, Russian Hill) -- $176,741 [$54,600]
94123 (Marina, Cow Hollow) -- $172,251 [$78,665]
94131 (Twin Peaks, Glen Park) -- $161,569 [$5,900]
94107 (Potrero Hill) -- $104,815 [$4,000]
94110 (Mission, Bernal Heights) -- $89,202 [$2,500]
94111 (Embarcadero, Barbary Coast) -- $81,395 [$53,750]
94105 (SoMa, southern Embarcadero) -- $72,965 [$28,275]
94133 (North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf) -- $69,445 [$12,200]
94127 (West Portal, St. Francis Wood) -- $65,233 [$8,450]
94121 (Outer Richmond) -- $58,596 [$17,000]
94103 (SOMA) -- $57,961 [$15,000]
94108 (Chinatown) -- $41,100 [$12,000]
94122 (Inner Sunset) -- $35,145 [$250]
94104 (Financial District) -- $30,137 [$31,500]
94116 (Outer Sunset) -- $23,107 [$3,000]
94102 (Tenderloin, Hayes Valley, North of Market) -- $22,987 [$3,500]
94132 (Lake Merced) -- $22,632 [$800]
94134 (Visitacion Valley) -- $12,662 [0]
94112 (Excelsior, Ingelside) -- $11,587 [0]
94129 (Presidio) -- $9,134 [$8,750]
94124 (Bayview-Hunter's Point) -- $2,600 [$1,000]
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