Bernie Sanders Now Has More Donors At This Point Than ANY Other Candidate In History

[99th_Monkey]

Bernie Sanders Now Has More Donors At This Point Than ANY Other Candidate In History
by Jason Easley * Thursday, November 5th, 2015 * Politicus

During an interview on NPR, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced that he now has more individual donors than any other candidate in history. (audio available at link below)

Sanders said, “When we began this campaign six months ago, I’d say that 80 percent of the American people did not know who Bernie Sanders was, what I stood for. First polls that I saw had us at three percent or five percent. We have come a very, very long way. We have hundreds of thousands of volunteers in fifty states in this country. We have received more individual contributions, 750,000, than any candidate in American history at this point in the campaign.”

The number of donors is impressive by any standard, but Sen. Sanders also addressed the question that will make or break his campaign. Sanders discussed how he planned to attract the support of African-American Democrats.

Sanders said, “If the elections were held today, just among the African-American vote, we would lose. But I think we have a real path to winning the support of the African-American community for two reasons. Number one, I’m just not well known in the African-American community… That’s just simply the truth. We have to do a lot better job in discussing my record which in the United States Congress is the strongest records of any member in terms of civil rights. Number two, I think even more importantly… the African-American community and the Latino community are struggling in a nation in which our middle class is struggling… the issues that we are focusing on, rebuilding the economy and in the process creating UP TO 13 million decent paying jobs, many of those jobs will be for minority communities. Making public colleges and universities tuition free will benefit everyone in America, but even more so, the African-American community.” ~snip~

To understand why it is important that Sanders has inspired over 750,000 people to donate to his campaign, one must view the Sanders campaign as a political movement. The Bernie Sanders movement isn’t going to end if he does not win the Democratic nomination. Even if he loses the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders will return to Washington as one of the most powerful leaders in the country.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/05/bernie-sanders-donors-point-candidate-history.html

[JackInGreen]

1. Didn't you hear?

Hillary already won!

[Catherina]

2. Anyone who thinks 750,000 people have nothing else to do with their money

and don't plan to vote is too deluded to pay any attention to.

[UglyGreed]

3. They are just a bunch of

loud mouth BernieBros who have extra money because they live in their mother's basement

[restorefreedom]

4. but its in the bag-----

oh, yeah, silly me..we have to vote first.

go bernie!!!

[moondust]

5. Do they count if they're not billionaires?

Or at the very least multi-millionaires?

[arcane1]

6. Hence the fear and desperation we see, even here, to dismiss him.

I'm proud to be one of those 750,000!!

[zentrum]

7. Just sent him

….some more from our family this morning.

[TekGryphon]

8. I'm one of them, but I'm still scared.

I saw how Ron Paul hooked first time conservative voters in 2007. Tons of donations, tons of online support. Yet when Ron Paul started fading, those voters (thankfully) packed their things and stayed home on election day. We got Obama instead of McCain as a result.

I support Bernie and I'll continue financially supporting him, but watching many of his supports makes me extremely uneasy. Their wild vitriol is out of hand. There's times I can't see an inch of difference between their messaging and what comes out of the extreme right-wing. Same conspiracy theories and everything.

I'm worried these voters will, if Bernie doesn't get the nomination, choose to stay home instead of voting for a qualified, experienced, highly intelligent progressive.

And that scares me.

[Ned_Devine]

10. Seriously?

"There's times I can't see an inch of difference between their messaging and what comes out of the extreme right-wing. Same conspiracy theories and everything.

I'm worried these voters will, if Bernie doesn't get the nomination, choose to stay home instead of voting for a qualified, experienced, highly intelligent progressive."

I haven't seen this "vitriol" you speak of. That's not our style.

[fbc]

12. That's a valid fear.

I don't support your rhetoric. The idea that the "messaging" of Bernie supporters is similar to the extreme right wing is laughable.

Also, the comparison to Ron Paul is not realistic. Paul was always a candidate whose core views are abhorrent to the majority of the population. Bernie is the opposite. His "radical" views are supported by the vast majority of Americans.

But sure, if the DNC thinks they can just throw up a republican-lite establishment candidate and all the Bernie Sanders supporters that are actually excited about a candidate for the first time in their lives will accept that as a valid subsitute for real change, then they should have their heads examined. It doesn't work like that.

Hillary Clinton excites nobody except her core group of supporters. She isn't winning new voters to the democratic party. She's desperately trying to hold on to the mass of people who identify as democrats but are essentially generally uninterested in the political process and choose her on polls because its the only name they recognize and the media says she's the candidate.

So, if the fear is that many of the people who are willing to stand in line for hours to hear Bernie Sanders speak may not bother going to the poll for Hillary Clinton and consequently the other democrats on the ballot, I'd say you are right on the money.

[TekGryphon]

22. Exactly. I call it the "I Want My Pony" voters. Same ones that gave us Bush.

Same false equivalency voters who will do everything in their power to give us a Republican in 2016.

Just the other day I saw a member of DU, another Bernie supporter, trying to convince other people to sit out the election and not vote Democratic if Bernie didn't win the nomination.

That kind of bullshit used to get a DU member a tombstone back in the day. Today? All but one voter voted to keep it.

[jeff47]

25. I'm sure hurling more insults will totally get them to vote the way you want.

As for Bush, 200,000 registered Democrats in FL voted for Bush. 20,000 registered Democrats voted for Nader. You claim the problem is the 20,000, not that Gore run such a shitty campaign that 10 times more Democrats voted for the Republican.

That kind of bullshit used to get a DU member a tombstone back in the day. Today? All but one voter voted to keep it.

Yeah, and creating sockpuppets also used to get a DU member a tombstone back in the day. Today it's completely acceptable when it's the "right kind" of poster.

[AgingAmerican]

16. "Ron Paul" "Kucinich" "McGovern" "Nader"

"His supporters are out of hand!"

Bloobity blibitty bloog!

[DianeK]

21. MIRT alert!

[frylock]

23. Would you mind listing one or two of those conspiracy theories and everything?

[Victor_c3]

9. I've only ever donated money to a political cause one other time

and that was in 2014. I donated $25 to votevets.org.

Last week I donated $100 to Sander's campaign and I plan on doing so again at the end of this month. There has never been a candidate that I've been so excited about.

[DownriverDem]

11. Hillary Supporters

are not your enemy. Why do so many Bernie folks comment like we are? I will vote for Bernie if he gets the nomination. If Bernie supporters can't say they will vote for Hillary than they will be handing the White House to the repubs.

[fbc]

14. Sure, blame the Sanders supporters if your candidate fails.

Hillary voters should be content that they already have a scapegoat for Hillary's inevitable failure in a general election.

See, the problem is that they don't just hand you the presidential election like Hillary got her Senate seat. Debbie Wasserman Shultz doesn't get to choose the nominee in the general. Clinton would have to actually win a hard fought election, something she's never done in her life.

[litlbilly]

17. Sure could have fooled me, i keep getting banned because of hillary so-called supporters

[jeff47]

27. Because we can read.

Why do so many Bernie folks comment like we are?

Because we can read their posts.

When they call me a stupid, lazy, volvo-driving, white-supremesist, sexist moron who is utterly out-of-touch with how "the real world works" and claim I'm desperately searching for a pony, that indicates they are not my friends.

For example, you call me stupid here:

If Bernie supporters can't say they will vote for Hillary than they will be handing the White House to the repubs.

Gee...am I so stupid I can't see this, or am I actually aware the electoral college exists and that Clinton can not win my state?

If you are concerned about being treated as a friend, start acting like one.

[mmonk]

13. But are they superdelegates?

[riderinthestorm]

15. There is no downside to this. All of us should be thrilled

This level of participation has no downside for us Dems no matter who we support. HRC or O'Malley all benefit when Americans actually pay attention.



.

[Fumesucker]

18. The down side is to the established political order, the establishment for short

And they will do anything at all to keep things running in the same old ways..

[Symarip]

19. I've come out of hiding (briefly) to say this:

750,000 donors, plus 1 (as of 2 minutes ago).

Hillary fans, your girl is in trouble. Though I encourage you to keep flaming the fire and talking trash. It makes a lot of us on the sidelines chuckle from time to time.

Later, DU.

PS - some of you are batshit crazy. After the primaries (or maybe before), I would recommend seeking therapy.

[WillyT]

20. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[LWolf]

26. That's the kind of inspiration

that has coattails.