Like the Republican Party, the Democratic Party gets their funding through public means like the government. One source of income of funding that the DNC receives comes from the Federal government. State Democratic parties gets funding from the DNC, the state, and the government. The county Democratic parties gets their funding from the State Democratic parties and the state government. It’s basically a branching effect with federal branching out to states whom in turn branch out to the counties. That’s how public funding tends to work.

There are other ways of obtaining the neccessary funding as well. Nowadays, non-profits have to act like businesses in certain aspects in order to stay afloat on the water. If they don’t, non-profits have no way of functioning at all. The Democratic National Committee is pretty much a non-profit entity.

One of the most obvious forms of funding are through donations. I should know due to a brief experience with working on the John Kerry campaign a few weeks before ’04 Election Night. The donations come from everyday people like you and me. The more wealthy donors tend to favor the Republicans more than the Democrats due to differences in representation. The Republicans at this moment tend to favor the more well-off people. It shows that donations is one way that the Democratic Party can get its funding. There was a small box in the front office where people could donate between $5-500 each. There’s a limit on how much each person can donate.

A good number of donations come from notable actors, actresses, and musical artists. I remember there was this one site where it listed the names of celebrities that donated. Actors such as Ed Asner, Ted Danson, and Alan Alda each donated to the Democratic Party or Democratic Candidate. Most of the people listed donated to the Democratic side while only a few donated to the Republican side. Basically, it seems that Hollywood is on the Democrats’ side.

But there are other ways of getting funding. Each county and state Democratic Party and most definitely the DNC will have their websites. As the website is your business, the website is your organization. All the information on the organization will be on the website. Those types of websites will get hundreds of thousands to millions of hits in a day. The websites can pretty much affiliate with other websites. The people go to their websites through the DNC’s website, they get money. It costs nothing to affiliate. The residual revenue stream that comes from affiliations and ads contribute to the DNC’s funding.

It’s free to affiliate and can generate a good source of funding. It would be ridiculous not to take advantage of it. Websites are the biggest revenue drivers for any business or organization. The Democratic Party is by means no acception to this current fact. With websites, there are online stores. One can easily secure a vendor. The items are very inexpensive to make such as t-shirts, caps, and coffee cups and can be sold at a higher price. Even religious organizations whom are listed as non-profit entities do the same thing. Plus there’s new stuff being sold through the online stores which means more funding.

Basically, these are the different ways on who funds the Democratic Party and how it’s funded. Like many other things, funding is no exception to how things have to evolve in order to survive. Funding tactics have to evolve.