The People Stand With Bernie Sanders And Crush Billionaire Trump By Surpassing 750,000 Donors

[pinebox]

So this is pretty awesome.
750,000 donors. That is what a movement about "the people" is all about, nor corporations but people.

The People Stand With Bernie Sanders And Crush Billionaire Trump By Surpassing 750,000 Donors
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/30/people-stand-bernie-sanders-crush-billionaire-trump-surpassing-750000-donors.html

Donald Trump has gotten a great deal of mainstream media attention for the number of donations to his campaign, but Bernie Sanders announced that he has surpassed 750,000 donors, which means that he is at minimum more than ten times bigger than Trump.

Here is what the Sanders campaign reported at the end of September:

The campaign closed the books at the end of the Sept. 30 reporting period with almost $27.1 million in the bank after spending about $11.3 million, according to a report filed on Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.

Since his White House bid was launched last April 30, Sanders has banked a total of about $41.4 million, according to the report.

Only 270 of Sanders’ 650,000 donors gave the maximum $2,700 allowed.

To put the staggering numbers of Sen. Sanders into context, Donald Trump has taken in 73,942 contributions. Bernie Sanders has 750,000 donors.

Bernie Sanders has gained 100,000 new donors in a month. His growth is all the more impressive because Hillary Clinton has been on a roll over the last few weeks. The Clinton campaign has taken back the momentum in the Democratic primary race and now leads in three of the first four contests. Clinton also leads nationally among Democrats.

What is happening in the Democratic primary is that the two candidates are running different tracks. Hillary Clinton is running a traditional Democratic primary campaign with one eye looking towards November of 2016.

Bernie Sanders is running a grassroots outsider campaign that is focused on building a national movement that will change American politics. Sen. Sanders wants and is trying to win the Democratic nomination, but also has the bigger goal of returning ownership of the American political process back to the people.

Sen. Sanders is building a movement that will go on even if he doesn’t win the Democratic nomination. The Sanders movement will return to the Senate with him, and the battle against the corporate and billionaires interests will continue.

The Sanders message is resonating to the point where three-quarters of a million Americans have opened their wallets and said enough is enough. Bernie Sanders is steadily building a movement that could change America.

[JaneyVee]

1. Looks like the people are standing with HRC...

According to the polls.

[pinebox]

2. polls

conducted through landlines? When many folks don't even own a landline?
Meanwhile, Bernie is turning out crowds the size of New Jersey at his rallies.
I think we're seeing who the people truly side with.

[Hiraeth]

3. Where are all the HRC pix? Seems there should be one to counter each one of Bernie's.

[shenmue]

6. Jersey is bigger than that, and they are pro-Hillary.

[pinebox]

8. You honestly

took my analogy as a fact? Really?

[senz]

15. Then how come they're not at her rallies?

Shall I insert an obnoxious little laughing smilie here?

[Faux pas]

4. K N R and

[icuc]

5. Maximum donation of all 750,000 of Bernie's donors

if they could, is over 2 billion dollars. The best news: it continues to grow.

Bernie supporters are ready to compete dollar for dollar and donate again and again.

[Historic NY]

10. Well then they better get going since it estimated the General Election could reach that.

[MisterP]

16. that's the ironic thing, no? not a one of them will be ABLE to give the max

while Clinton will rake in 80% of her money in the last few weeks before NH and IA and from like 5 people

[tritsofme]

7. Trump is not actively fundraising...I don't understand why this comparison is meaningful

Comparing Sanders numbers to any of the other major candidates, as I believe I have seen in other media, would at least be something that matters in some way.

More strange but not surprising yellow journalism from PoliticsUsa

[pinebox]

9. Check it

[tritsofme]

12. I'm not trying to split hairs or spend more time discussing this man

than absolutely necessary, but he is not engaging in a traditional fundraising strategy, the money he raises is mostly coincidental. There is a link on his website, but he is not investing the amount of time fundraising as any of the other major campaigns.

It is a strange and not particularly meaningful comparison for this article to make, but typical of the yellow slant of this publication.

[pinebox]

13. Perhaps

but he still is fundraising. I think more than likely they used Trump because he's the Republican front runner.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, pinebox.

[senz]

14. I like this quote --

Bernie Sanders is running a grassroots outsider campaign that is focused on building a national movement that will change American politics. Sen. Sanders wants and is trying to win the Democratic nomination, but also has the bigger goal of returning ownership of the American political process back to the people.

That "bigger goal?" Hillary and her supporters would laugh at that.

[LWolf]

17. That IS pretty awesome. nt