2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders has his war chest
Rick Klein: Which is more surprising that Bernie Sanders is within financial striking distance of Hillary Clinton, or that hes within polling striking distance without spending any of that cash on ads? Whats clear is that one avenue for Clinton to beat Sanders for Sanders to beat himself by running out of cash after the first round of early states is now closed. Sanders has his war chest, and an ability to replenish it via small-dollar donors that the Clinton apparatus cant match.
Whats becoming clear is that any strategy that depends on outside money to boost a candidate is basing that strategy on hope, not history. If anything, this election cycle has shown the limits of Super PACs think Rick Perry and Scott Walker. The Clinton campaign has weapons left to deploy, including, of course, Bill Clinton. But the point is that its increasingly likely those weapons will have to come out during the primary season.
http://politicalwire.com/2015/10/02/sanders-has-his-war-chest/
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I was just posting about this on another string. Then i see this.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=640744
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Bernie will outraise Hillary for that quarter. That is, once the full debate is available on the web so the majority of voters can watch it.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)I've seen people tossing around extremely high burn rates, without any attribution.
It would be interesting to compare cash-on-hand for the Sanders and Clinton campaigns.
wilsonbooks
(972 posts)She hasn't released her figure though.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_28907392/eugene-robinson-bernie-sanders-clarion-call
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)And he doesn't need to spend it because he has an army of volunteers growing every day, doing what people do when they are enthusiastic about a candidate, making sure he gets the attention the Corp Media won't give him.
People are asking: Why couldn't the other Dem candidates refuse that money and do what Bernie is doing? It IS the #1 issue now for a majority, nearly 80%, of voters.
And they still can't figure out why Bernie is so successfully challenging someone with a war chest that they tell us, is 'what wins elections'.