Matt
sits middle of the pack
- Score
- −0.10
- More liberal than
- 36% of names
- Measured from
- 10,054 contributors
That ranking compares Matt with other names. The typical name scores −0.22, because people who donate to campaigns lean left as a group, so a name can sit left of zero and still be middle of the pack. The party splits below use a different yardstick again: each one is measured against an even fifty-fifty.
DIME contributor ideal points, 1979-2014. Negative is liberal, positive conservative.
Matt versus Matthew
People who go by Matt rather than Matthew sit 0.11 to the right of the full name. It is the same name. The difference is what people choose to be called.
How does Matt compare with someone else's name?
Party, by population
Different groups of people, measured in different ways. They do not always agree, and the disagreement is usually the interesting part.
Federal contributions, 2016 to 2026. Donors skew older and wealthier than the country.
Party registration again, in a state with a very different mix of people. Florida and North Carolina agree on which way a name leans 88% of the time.
Ohio has no party registration, so this is the last primary ballot each voter chose to pull.
Another set of donor records points the same way. Among donors to 527 organisations, Matt is 91% Democratic where that pool averages 71%, across 1,349 people. Worth a flag: among Washington state and local donors, Matt tilts the other way. It is 46% Democratic there, but that pool averages 55% overall, so Matt sits right of its centre while the federal records put it left of theirs.
Related spellings
Where Matt leans differently
| State | Democratic share of donors | Against that state’s own donors |
|---|---|---|
| CA | 75% | +0.47 |
| TX | 44% | +0.26 |
| NY | 81% | +0.54 |
| IL | 68% | +0.32 |
| WA | 77% | +0.59 |
| FL | 34% | −0.16 |
| CO | 61% | +0.12 |
| VA | 59% | +0.18 |
The right column compares Matt with other donors in the same state, so it is not just telling you which states are Democratic.