Bernie Sanders Becomes the First Candidate to Reach 1 Million Individual Donations
Source: NY Mag
The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said it received its millionth individual donation on Wednesday. He becomes the first presidential candidate from either party to reach that threshold in 2015. But with an average contribution of less than $25, he's still raised far less than Hillary Clinton.
The campaign made its announcement, just hours before the end of the third quarter of fund-raising, on the Sanders for President subreddit by far the largest subreddit affiliated with any 2016 candidate, with 110,000 members. Sanders eschews super-pac fund-raising, instead depending on many small-dollar donors. Many are social-media savvy, and their steady stream of shareable memes has gifted the 74-year-old with a pervasive Facebook presence.
Reaching 1 million donations by the third quarters end had been one of the Sanders campaigns chief goals in recent days.
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Coincidentally, U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups, released a report on Wednesday showing that if the federal government provided a system of public matching funds for small donors as New York Citys government does for its municipal elections Sanderss campaign would have more cash on hand than Clintons. As it is, Sanderss army of politically enthused Redditors is no match for his rivals big spenders: Clinton raised $45 million in the second quarter, while Sanders took in just $15 million.
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/bernie-sanders-makes-a-million.html
Go Bernie Go!
Go BERNERS Go!
peacebird
(14,195 posts)appalachiablue
(41,174 posts)perfect Motown great by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, "Dancing in the Streets"!
ReactFlux
(62 posts)is ripe for CHANGE
As evident by this remarkable milestone... we're going to have work extra hard to get the word out as individuals, but as madison avenue knows, NOTHING beats word of mouth advertising
feeling the BERN
msongs
(67,443 posts)DFW
(54,443 posts)But I'm part of this one, though I gave multiples of $25. I'm far from convinced he'll get anywhere near the nomination, but as an undecided, I'm not so indifferent as to not care if his voice is heard or not. What he is saying DOES need to be heard, nominee or not, and I thought it important enough several months ago to make a contribution toward enabling that. Not alone, I see!
retrowire
(10,345 posts)"He becomes the first presidential candidate from either party to reach that threshold in 2015. But with an average contribution of less than $25, he's still raised far less than Hillary Clinton"
as if the record has happened in another year? and he's still got less than Hillary. lmao MSM just won't cut him a break will they?
feel the bern people!
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)24601
(3,963 posts)pontificate, but I get to decide for myself why I support one candidate or another. I have no obligation to accept their crap about what's a legitimate issue or not. Nobody is entitled to my money or my vote.
For me, it's the hair style - at least that's my reason Wednesday. Tomorrow it could be his accent.
Take that political elites and corporate shills! What was the phrase from the 70s - EABO.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)If your opponent has $10 and 1 vote but you have $1 and 10 votes, you WIN!
KelleyKramer
(8,983 posts)"As it is, Sanderss army of politically enthused Redditors is no match for his rivals big spenders: Clinton raised $45 million in the second quarter, while Sanders took in just $15 million."
No, that Is NOT "as it is", that is literally as it WAS. Meaning LAST Quarters report.
In the current report Clinton raised 28 mil, Bernie 25 mil
They say Bernie is 'no match for his rival..'
But in reality, Clinton went from 45mil to 28mil, and at the same time Bernie went from 15mil to 25mil.
In reality Bernie can not only keep up very well, he is literally on the verge of over-taking Clinton.
I hate bullshit slanted reporting
Good post.