She thinks we're stupid.

http://www.politifact.com/nbc/statements/2016/mar/21/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-her-campaign-depends-small-do/

So just knowing the amount of money raised from small donors won't tell you how many people gave.
"A lump-sum unitemized receipt of $100,000 could be 100,000 donors, 5,000 donors, or any number in between — your guess is as good as mine," said Kenneth A. Gross, an elections and campaign-finance expert at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

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This means we're left with the federal disclosure data, which produces weaker support for Clinton's statement.
If one defines "the majority of our support" as dollars, then Clinton is wrong — small donations accounted for 17 percent of all of her individual donations, which is well short of a majority. In fact, the Campaign Finance Institute calculated that a clear majority of the funds Clinton had raised through Jan. 31 from individuals came from donors giving $2,700 — the legal maximum that anyone can give.
On the other hand, the campaign could be right if they define "the majority of our support" as the number of donors. But this calculation isn't transparent to outside analysis.
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Our ruling

Clinton said, "Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support."
The campaign's best evidence for this isn't independently verifiable. Otherwise, Clinton is wrong — small donors accounted for only 17 percent of the dollar amount her campaign has collected from individuals through Jan. 31, and 19 percent of the dollar amount collected through Feb. 29.

We rate statement Mostly False.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This post makes me uncomfortable. You can easily find this person's ID, no matter what the OP says. I've made 8 donations to Bernie and work for the government as well. Please hide.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:21 PM, and the Jury voted 1-6 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This post exposes this private person to the well documented online bullying by certain Sanders supporters. Hide.
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Explanation: It is an FEC link. It is public info. Leave it.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: 'This post makes me uncomfortable.'

You could easily find their real name.

Is this the pettiness that Bernie supporters, facing loss, are headed to?

but no one got the message. Seeing the name over and over made a difference. People read fast and I wanted them to understand the point of the post. Anything public that we do can be found by others. That's just how it is.

Here is one on me still online from 2007. Pages and pages of it just from Bellevue, NE. Some go back to 1979.

http://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-BELLEVUE-NE.html

BELLEVUE, Nebraska (NE) Political Contributions by Individuals

Steven Dawes (City Of Omaha/Semi Skilled Labor), (Zip code: 68005) $250 to JOHN EDWARDS FOR PRESIDENT on 06/28/07

One of the few donations I wish I could get back!

Sigh.

I'm in the yellow AFSCME shirt and black hat.

is completely foul and disgusting.

I think Skinner needs to deal with this before others replicate this horrendous and juvenile behavior.

It does point out the math of many small donations in a short amount of time to help Hillary's donation amount look like little people. Clearly this is not the case with this individual. Smoke and mirrors is not corruption. Bernie moved this to the left too, $27 at a time

The DU for Bernie averages $35 per donation BTW.

You don't know anything about this person.

I thought you were better than this.

So fucking sad.

This isn't helping.

It's disgusting that you're defending the smear of a completely random political donor in the OP.

Garbage.

I'm fine with that.

The jury didn't think it is a smear.

OS

"I don't see the word corrupt in the OP..."

It's difficult to perceive clear implication if doing so would interfere with our biases.

I completely agree with you.

Truly bottom of the barrel now.

This is sort of stalkerish. Very creepy.

Insulting too...

What's wrong with you?

billionaires. Didn't you know?

I first tried to leave names but no one read. By adding names, the scamming became obvious. Many have made small donations but how many on Bernie's side deliberately turn them into small packages every few days to deceive the public and give their candidate a false meme? Check out Bernie's. If people have done that, they should be exposed. And Ababa isn't the only one. That's the thing. It appears to be a planned deception.

I've given lots of money to Bernie and all of it has been in larger donations. No attempt on my part to deceive the public. And Ababa is not the only one. When should this sort of deception be outed? it is public information. I'm wondering if your support for Hillary isn't corrupting your ethics as well. Is that what politics has become?

You have absolutely no clue why the person named in the OP donated as he did, yet you imply in a cowardly manner that it is related to his work at the State Department and that he did so in some coordinated way with the campaign.

You have your minor plausibility that you were implying no such thing, but anybody who isn't a dishonest piece of shit can see right through that.

Your post is garbage.

I'll take the hide.

She has over one million people like me donating to her. Stop with your tinfoil hat bs and get over it.

I owe have student loans. I'm a real live person. We're real people who you are talking about. Yes, Sanders has more donors. Lots even and that's something to be proud of. But people also don't feel the need to donate as much when she is winning and doing so well and has other supports, thank god, because I don't have as much free money as many of the better off young college students do.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/fundraising/273598-clinton-campaign-hits-1m-contributors

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When I first donated to Hillary, I wasn't that big of a supporter, but liked her the best. I also figured she didn't need that much money because there were no real challengers in the primary. Then, as the Bernie people started to get so loud, it encouraged me to donate after every primary, win or lose. I honestly felt guilty disliking Bernie because I found his supports so closed-minded, but it gradually happened. Also, the amount raised after a primary seems to be used as a big talking point, so I tried to help with that.

However, when the generals begin, and we can donate the full $2700 again, I will probably hold off and wait for a fundraiser where I might be able to meet her.

Thanks for a reasonable post however. My Bernie donations are usually after primaries as well.

Adding out of curiosity: what evidence do you have that Bernie supporters more closed-minded than Hillary's You didn't change you mind and I haven't changed my mind. What's the difference?

but just left it because it was a small amount.

As for your other question. I just didn't feel that I was being heard when expressing my feelings about things that Bernie did not talk about (I still don't know his positions on many things, mostly foreign policy). Any slight sign of a disagreement and I was lectured at. On the Hillary forum, people where much more willing to answer questions and try to defend their candidates opinions, while respecting my differing ones. I just had the weird sense that the Bernie movement was kind of cultish...for lack of a better description. I think we all end up with the camp where we feel more comfortable.

Maybe someone else decided to do it every time they saw a post like this. Maybe they decided to break it up because it's a talking point, that doesn't make them a rich evil oligarch. If I had money I would go make a donation right now.

that's not the case. You'll have to check for yourself rather than believe me. This persons name was all in one place. Other names are scattered frequently throughout. Keep it in perspective - this isn't one or two people or even twenty.

Your post is insulting to people like me.

To act like we don't exist or don't count is stupid.

who did absolutely nothing wrong from this post.

I would have objected.

It hurt.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511196906