Scott Galindez: Bernie Raises Almost as Much Money as Hillary

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If the Clinton campaign wants to find Bernie Sanders, all they have to do is look in the left lane at the Million Person March passing them by. They don’t have a super-PAC, and they aren’t pouring money into television ads that people fast-forward through with their DVRs – they’re doing it the old fashioned way, with a grassroots campaign. They are using new technology but with people power.

Bernie Sanders is now up double digits in New Hampshire and Iowa and raising nearly as much money from more donors than Hillary Clinton. The Sanders campaign announced that they have reached 1 million donations. Bernie is now outpacing Obama’s online fundraising from 2008, and it appears he has as much cash on hand as Hillary Clinton, who is outspending Sanders by more than 2 to 1.

Sanders has a more vibrant social media presence that includes more followers who are more engaged than the followers of the former secretary of state, who many claim is buying Facebook friends. Whether or not Clinton is paying for Facebook followers, her pages do not have the activity that the Sanders social media has.

In a stunning development just prior to the midnight deadline on September 30th, the Sanders campaign announced that they had reached 1 million donors and had raised 26 million dollars in the third quarter. The Clinton campaign, which has been pushing hard for one-dollar donors, had raised only $2 million more during the same quarter, but Clinton does not have as many donors. Of course, with her super-PACs Clinton has more money, but the fact that the campaign barely out-raised Sanders in the past few months has to be a big concern.