Amid Fundraising Surge for Sanders, Are Clinton 'Panic Attacks' Backfiring?

[eridani]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/14/amid-fundraising-surge-sanders-are-clinton-panic-attacks-backfiring

CBS News reported Thursday that the Sanders campaign is seizing this momentum by outspending Clinton on TV advertising "just as voters are beginning to pay attention to the race."

According to CBS:

In the past three weeks, Sanders' campaign has spent about $4.7 million on ads to Clinton's $3.7 million, an investment that so far has meant 1,000 more Sanders commercials than Clinton ads on broadcast TV, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media's CMAG.

The Sanders ad burst is coinciding with his rise in preference polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states where voters will weigh in on the 2016 election. The Democratic contest appears to be tightening.

In fact, CBS wrote: "The turnabout in ad spending—with Sanders topping Clinton in each of the past three weeks—prompted the Clinton campaign last week to send an email to supporters with the subject line "nervous."

"I'm not trying to be dramatic about this (I swear! I'm really not!), but there's a situation developing in Iowa and New Hampshire that could change the course of this election," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook wrote in the fundraising appeal. Later in the same email: "I just found out that he's outspending us on TV advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire."

[Cassiopeia]

1. Clinton spent the last 6 months flying around on a private jet.

Bernie flew coach (with a few exceptions) and put OUR money in the bank instead.

Now it's going to pay off.

I trust this man to make every effort to help us spend our resources wisely as POTUS.

[pugetres]

4. That's a good contrast to bring up.

For a person like me, anyways.

Sen. Sanders is more responsible with my donations than Sec. Clinton would be. Simplistic. Appealing. And, in the end, our donated dollars are going towards getting a message out rather than going towards early boarding, free alchohol, and complimentary check-in luggage on airlines that charge for that (I'm a Southwest flyer-can you tell?)

[Cassiopeia]

5. Yeah, I think Clinton's flights are far

more accommodating than you could even dream of.

She might have packed her toiletries herself, but I'm betting everything else was handled by someone else. I doubt she even dresses herself without a personal assistant.

Meanwhile Bernie has a net worth of somewhere around $500k.

http://moneynation.com/bernie-sanders-net-worth/

Granted, that's probably still a lot more than either you or I have, but.....

Bernie's still flying in a seat right next to you. Because he cares and it's not new. 40 years in government, 4 decades of chances to take the money and run....... and he's decided to stay with us, fighting for us.

Hillary claimed they were flat broke when leaving the WH. I'm betting they were a lot better off that day than Bernie is today.

[Kalidurga]

7. I believe her when she says they were broke

They might have been in debt. The Clinton's spend 50,000 a week to rent a house in the Hampton's. It doesn't take long to run out of money when you spend it like that.

[Cassiopeia]

8. People with the wealth in the 1% range never go broke

like we do. Sure, there's some anecdotal evidence otherwise, but it's rare.

The Clinton's have NEVER worried about their next meal. They've never worried if that tank full of gas would last until pay day. They've never had to tell their daughter she couldn't go on the school field trip because they just didn't have a $10 spot to spare.

The Clinton's have never been broke, I don't care how they spin it.

Did they need to put off a $250,000 vacation? Meh, cry me a river. I'll hardly call that any kind of hardship, much less broke.

[Cassiopeia]

2. Will the Millennials show up?

From the article:

The Register reports:

[J. Ann] Selzer, the pollster, noted that Sanders scores well with the types of voters who put Barack Obama over the top in Iowa in 2008. Sanders is supported by 62 percent of political independents who plan to attend the Democratic caucuses, compared with 21 percent for Clinton. He also leads 59 percent to 27 percent among those younger than 45 and by 52 percent to 34 percent among people who plan to attend their first caucuses.

Bloomberg adds:

A caveat for Sanders is that his support appears to be concentrated in three Iowa counties—Black Hawk, Johnson, and Story—that are home to state universities. Those counties, where Sanders leads Clinton, 52 percent to 30 percent, account for 27 percent of his vote but just 21 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers, underscoring the extent to which Sanders is relying on younger voters, a notoriously difficult group to turn out.

Still, Sanders appears to have one built-in advantage and he seeks mobilize his fans into voters: His supporters are more active than Clinton's on social media. Asked about their social media habits, 49 percent of Sanders backers surveyed say they follow candidates on social media, while that was true for 30 percent of Clinton supporters. Meanwhile, 34 percent of Sanders supporters say they've already posted positive comments about candidates compared with 19 percent of Clinton supporters; 17 percent of Sanders backers and 6 percent of Clinton backers have posted negative comments about candidates.

Rubber meets road etc....

[Wilms]

3. If I may, eridani, I'd like to fix that headline.

Amid Clinton's Backfiring 'Panic Attacks', Fundraising Surges for Sanders

That better?

[eridani]

6. Just using the source title n/t