Politics

Hither's how much each presidential candidate has spent on Dunkin' Donuts

And who'due south buying Starbucks instead.

Hillary Clinton visited a Dunkin Donuts in Manchester, N.H. on Dominicus. Matt Rourke / AP

By Eric Levenson @ejleven

If America actually runs on Dunkin', and so Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush-league are in lockstep with U.S. voters.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, even so, are running on—gasp—Starbucks.

Dunkin' Donuts and its beloved year-circular iced coffee holds a place near and beloved to the heart of New England. So ahead of the New Hampshire chief election on Tuesday, we analyzed recent campaign finance reports from the Federal Election Commission to go to the bottom of a key question on voters' minds.

How much has each presidential candidate'due south campaign spent on Dunkin' Donuts?

In 2015, Clinton'south campaign spent $i,866 on Dunkin' Donuts, far and away the most of whatever candidate. Clinton's entrada spent most of that money in large chunks, including 2 $341 purchases in Des Moines, Iowa in June and ii $292 expenses in Rochester, N.H. in September.

Bernie Sanders, the lone New England-based candidate of the agglomeration, spent the tertiary-virtually on Dunkin', purchasing $106 and $132 worth of donuts and coffee in September.

Despite heavily campaigning in New Hampshire in contempo months, John Kasich did not charge whatever Dunkin' purchases to his campaign. And the only Dunks buy by Donald Trump's campaign was a paltry $10.46 at a Manchester Dunkin' Donuts on December ninth.

Simply it's not just full dollars that matters here. Nosotros also looked at the number of individual transactions at Dunkin' Donuts.

The 2 Floridians are big buyers here. Jeb Bush's campaign hit upwardly Dunkin' xv times from October to December, more often than not in small increments. In one pit end on December 3rd, his campaign spent but $2.

Marco Rubio, too, had a number of small purchases at Dunkin'. Of his entrada's xiii purchases in that location, 10 of them were for less than $x, including a $1 purchase on November 23.

Judging a candidate's New England-ness isn't just near their fondness for Dunkin'; information technology's likewise based on their distaste for its closest rival, Starbucks. So we examined how much each candidate'south campaign spent on Starbucks.

Whoa there, Marco! Rubio and his campaign seem to have a coffee addiction in general. His campaign expensed Starbucks a total of 51 times on the campaign trail for a total of $386, both of which were the almost amid candidates.

Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, has taken to mentioning Dunkin' Donutsduring his recent travels in New Hampshire. He's visited the institution before, also.

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But his expenses show the campaign is much more addicted of Starbucks, spending almost $200 there over the course of 28 pit stops, both the 2nd-most of candidates. See, for instance, Cruz holding a Starbucks loving cup with Glenn Beck in Iowa.

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Interestingly enough, neither Autonomous candidate expensed any coin at Starbucks. The Democrats run on Dunkin', apparently.

(h/t Gawker for the idea)

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