Art Golab
Want to know which of your neighbors is putting their money behind Bush or Kerry?
Just go to www.fundrace.org, type in your address, and you'll get a list of your neighbors who've given money to federal candidates. The Web site uses special mapping technology to tell you which donors are closest to your address.
The data come from the Federal Election Commission, which requires all federal campaigns to list the name, address, occupation and amount of every donation more than $200 for all contributors. The FEC Web site, www.fec.gov, also makes the data available, but it's a lot clunkier than fundrace and doesn't have the mapping technology.
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