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Guardian fundraising analysis reveals wealthy areas’ fondness for moderate Democrats
The town of Atherton, California has only 7,000 residents, but it’s home to enough titans of the tech industry to field a polo team: Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt, Meg Whitman, Tim Draper and Marc Andreessen are just some of the Silicon Valley suburb’s rich and famous. When the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg decamped from British public life to Facebook public relations, he traded a townhouse in Putney for a $9m estate in the exclusive enclave.
The richest zip code in the United States, Atherton is home to those who know how to bet on the right horse. And yet the presidential candidate of choice in this sanctuary for the 1% is one who has yet to come close to the top of the polls: the New Jersey senator Cory Booker. Continue reading...