More 2005 FEC Stats

2005 Stats	RNC	DNC
Number of itemized donations*	35400	16200
Total itemized donations (All '05)	$45,631,940	$17,473,568
Total unitemized donations (All '05)	$55,037,836	$32,158,148
Total receipts (All '05)	$105,382,510	$56,052,473
Total disbursements (All '05)	$86,078,568	$56,242,404
Total disbursements (Dec '05)	$8,162,819	$4,522,836
Cash on hand (close of '05)	$33,971,253	$5,861,879

*An itemized donation is a donation over $200

Couple of notes:

• It looks like there is some truth to the Deaniac $20 donors. Democrats nearly doubled the amount of itemized donations with donations under $200. In fact, that number seems very high. Just as a comparison, the DNC raised approx. $14,000,000 in unitemized donations in 2004. The number still pales in comparison to the RNC but the ratio of itemized to unitemized is very high.
  
• By comparison, most strategists expect a significant drop in unitemized donations, especially after a presidential election year. For example, the RNC raked in over $100,000,000 in unitemized donations in 2004. That was nearly cut in half in 2005 donations (as expected).
  
• Unitemized donations seems to be the only thing the DNC excels in. As indicated before, "Cash on Hand" is very low. By comparison, at the end of the 2004 the DNC had $6,000,000 left which was to be expected considering they spent over $365,000,000 in 2004. To come out of an non-election year with less money is not a happy position.
  
• One more note. While the Deniacs may be alive and well, by deduction we could reason that the GOP has a larger donation base. I can't prove it but the ratio of total donations to number of donators leads me to think so.

More to come

UPDATE: I'm told by a reliable source that the GOP had 1,000,000 individual donors in 2004.