Bernie Crushing it - "Bernie Sanders' Small Donor Fundraising Continues To Set Records"

[Nanjeanne]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-fundraising_us_56ae4f7ee4b0010e80ea7bdb

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign raised $33.6 million in the last three months of 2015 and another $20 million in January alone, the campaign announced Sunday. The campaign further stated that 1.3 million people have made 3.25 million donations to Sanders' run -- a record number of donors at this stage in a presidential campaign.

“The numbers we’ve seen since Jan. 1 put our campaign on pace to beat Secretary Clinton’s goal of $50 million in the first quarter of 2016,” Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, said in a statement. “Working Americans chipping in a few dollars each month are not only challenging but beating the greatest fundraising machine ever assembled.”

The vast majority of Sanders' money has come from donors giving under $200. This contrasts with Hillary Clinton's campaign, which has raised the majority of its funds from donors giving maximum contributions of $2,700. Clinton’s campaign has also raised substantial sums from small donors, but Sanders’ ability to remain competitive with Clinton’s fundraising by relying solely on small contributions is unprecedented.

The Sanders camp said that the fourth quarter total will show 70 percent of the campaign's donations came from small donors. Further, the $20 million it reports to have raised in January came almost exclusively from online donations averaging $27 a piece.

Overall, Sanders raised $75 million in 2015 compared to an anticipated $114 million for Clinton.

*bolding mine

[Jarqui]

1. The nerve of this man

He announces his campaign at the end of April about 55 pts behind not belonging to a party until then. He has almost no organization or people behind him and no media or corporate people behind him. He raises $75 mil and he's right in the thick of it with tens if not hundreds of thousands of supporters and record setting donors.

It's pretty amazing

[cali]

42. He has millions of supporters.

[Ino]

2. He answered our call to run...

We have his back, and he hasn't let us down!

[Live and Learn]

3. And we have answered his call for support in return.

We are there for him and will be for the long haul.

[Live and Learn]

4. One almost has to feel sorry for the Hillary supporters.

They have no idea how great it feels to be part of such a great movement. Fell the Bern!!!

[Punkingal]

5. "Almost"

[azmom]

6. Almost

#UnidosConBernie

[R B Garr]

7. After watching how the online polling was spammed

and manipulated during the first debate, anything from the BS camp involving numbers is not credible, especially the "new" donors digits. There are too many obvious ways to artificially inflate that.

[Live and Learn]

8. Did you have a point? Are you accusing Bernie of lying now?

What a despicable accusation.

[R B Garr]

10. Drama! Get back to me when you show respect for ALL

the Democratic candidates. Who are you to accuse, LOL.

[Live and Learn]

11. Exactly what have I ever falsely accused Hillary of? Nothing.

Making things up doesn't make them true!

[R B Garr]

12. Your phony drama is noted.

[Live and Learn]

13. As are your untruths. nt

[R B Garr]

15. Ha, I can have an opinion about something I observed

Too bad you don't approve.

[Live and Learn]

16. Your opinions are based on manufactured lies. nt

[R B Garr]

17. Oh, your drama! LOL

I saw the spamming on Facebook. That's what I observed. I'm allowed to have an opinion about something I observe.

Quit harassing me. If I said you were manufacturing lies, you would you would try to get my post hidden.

[Live and Learn]

18. Gotta have the last word? nt

[R B Garr]

19. I noticed that about you!

You've added nothing but personal attacks.

[Live and Learn]

20. Quite Rovian of you. nt

[R B Garr]

22. Lame and boring

Just move on.

[Live and Learn]

23. Yes, your posts are. On that we agree. nt

[R B Garr]

24. This is obviously very meaningful to you.

How flattering.

[Live and Learn]

25. I can hardly wait till the primaries are over and your posts disappear from my view forever. nt

[R B Garr]

26. LOL. More drama.

You can put me on ignore and quit posting to me. Easy.

[Live and Learn]

28. Not sure I can actually wait that long but giving it an effort.

[R B Garr]

30. Thank goodness!

[Live and Learn]

32. Don't go. Want to kick it some more?

It is a great OP.

[R B Garr]

33. How flattering.

Thank you.

[Live and Learn]

38. You are most welcome.

[bkkyosemite]

29. BS and that does not stand for Bernie Sanders. I have given

monthly and other times. I have not much money but like a million others we are giving..Just can't believe it huh?

[R B Garr]

31. I observed the spamming on Facebook

I wouldn't believe any numbers after that. I'm allowed to have an opinion on something I observe. Too bad you don't like it.

[cali]

43. Lol. Manufacturered outrage built on made up nonsense

Have fun.

[R B Garr]

45. LMAO! Yet you post multiple threads with your

every little observation and made-up conspiracies. What does that say about your "manufactured" outrage?

I take it you didn't watch the debate on Facebook...Total spam. Unbelievable.

[saltpoint]

34. Do you think Elvis is dead? Because

he might not be. Of course he could be, but what if he isn't?

[R B Garr]

35. I saw the spamming on Facebook in the first debate.

Phoney baloney all the way. I also get campaign email. Lots of phoniness. Unbelievable.

[saltpoint]

37. He could be hiding IN DISGUISE!!

I'm not kidding. I've heard people do that all the time.

Like, maybe, different clothes. Because if he wore all his sparkly Las Vegas duds around and that hairdo, well, people would say, "Hey, it's Elvis! But isn't he supposed to be dead?"

But wait. What if he's alive? He's smart enough to go around in a disguise so people wouldn't recognize him.

Unless he was like, you know, waiting at the grocery store line and started singing "In the Ghetto." The people around him would say, "Damn, that guy sounds like Elvis Presley." Even though they KNOW HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!!

They would go home. And it would just haunt them.

[R B Garr]

39. You have Elvis on your mind! Your commitment

is admirable.

Bravo!

[saltpoint]

40. I hope I run into him. My favorite

tune by Elvis is "Kentucky Rain."

Eddie Rabbit wrote the song and wanted to record it. But Elvis wanted to record it, too. It occurred to Rabbit that Elvis might take his composition higher up the charts than he could.

So he deferred to The King.

[AtomicKitten]

9. He has inspired everyone to kick in what they can.

I'm poor as a church mouse but was so inspired by people in my shoes kicking in what they could with an automatic monthly donation that I did the same. His candidacy is truly inspiring.

[saltpoint]

36. Hells Bells, AtomicKitten, but I do

like your comment.

I like it a hell of a lot.

More power to ya and more power to this Sanders guy.

[AtomicKitten]

41. I have been so impressed with effort by supporters.

Reddit is organizing phone banks and volunteers. People are organizing and opening field offices ahead of the campaign. Bernie is raising an inordinate amount of cash. I am imbibing tonight, otherwise I'd jump out of my skin. I'm hugging my friends and one goes out to you. Cheers.

[saltpoint]

46. Warm thanks -- and all good vibes down to

Iowa for Bernie Sanders and his (increasingly) large band of supporters.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Nanjeanne.

[TIME TO PANIC]

21. $20 million just this month!

[saltpoint]

27. Sanders has raised over 20 million bucks in January

while Scott Walker's failed campaign is in debt.

We're better off that Walker is no longer in contention and that Bernie Sanders' coffers have filled, overwhelmingly with small donors' contributions. Walker looked as if he might be formidable very early last spring. Didn't pan out.

Not everything goes better with Koch.

[Ichingcarpenter]

44. So? , Soros and two other billionaire friends of Hillary

gave that much just last week. Plus Chelsea's hedge fund lackeys fund raisers can easily make up the difference.........



Go Bernie.