For WP’s Department of Data, Kati Perry and Adrián Blanco examine campaign spending through the lens of restaurant and cuisine preferences between political parties:
[W]e wanted to wrap our arms around a bigger question: where the campaigns spend the most money. We limited our analysis to places that racked up at least $5,000 in campaign spending, coming up with a list of roughly 500 popular restaurants and food purveyors, involving more than 21,000 receipts worth a collective $13 million.
See also the Department of Data’s previous party split analysis on names. They should do the thing where with each analysis, they go more and more ridiculous so that by election day they’re counting letter usage in rally speeches.
