Time: Why Hillary Clinton Should Fear Bernie Sanders’ Fundraising in 2 Charts (charts at link)
Why Hillary Clinton Should Fear Bernie Sanders’ Fundraising in 2 Charts
Sam Frizell @Sam_Frizell 4:04 PM ET
Sanders is beating Obama's 2007 pace in one key category
The size of a candidate’s war chest can say a lot about the strength of his or her campaign. But there’s also something to be gleaned from the total number of contributors to a campaign: Having more contributors, even if they’re kicking in small amounts, can show more widespread support than a campaign that is raising larger amounts of money from a smaller number of donors.
Bernie Sanders‘ campaign announced an important fundraising milestone on Wednesday, bringing in more than $25 million in the last three months—nearly as much as Hillary Clinton, who remains the odds-on-favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination despite growing leads for Sanders in early-state polls. Perhaps more significant, Sanders boasts almost twice as many individual contributors to his campaign as Barack Obama did at this point in 2007 on the way to his upset win against Clinton. It’s a reflection of strong grassroots support for Sanders, the Vermont Senator.
While Clinton is far ahead in overall fundraising, her third-quarter financial advantage against Sanders is smaller than it was against Obama during the same period in 2007, as shown here.
See the charts here:
http://time.com/4058075/bernie-sanders-fundraising-hillary-clinton-barack-obama/
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