The Huffington Post has put together a really cool tool that slices campaign donation database for the 2008 Presidential election.

You can search by a person’s name to find out where he or she is donating money. You can search by occupation.

You can also search by city.

That’s where it gets fun for those of us who follow Erie.

The link I just gave you lists all of the contributions by those who list Erie on their disclosure forms. According to the data, 183 people from Erie gave about $123,000 to Republican candidates. another 190 Erieites gave close to $116,000 to Democrats.

That’s a pretty even split — and it also shows that Erie folks are far from big-ticket donors when it comes to the Presidential race.