Cash Crunch Complicates Bernie Sanders’ California Comeback Dreams

[pdsimdars]

Bernie Sanders is banking on a California miracle to propel him to the Democratic nomination, which is why his decline in fundraising could not have come at a worse time.

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In no state is money more crucial for a candidate than in California. Its sheer size, in both geography and population, makes running here a ridiculously expensive endeavor. Its media markets are some of the most costly in the world, and candidates who try to sidestep big ad buys typically fail to convey their message to key segments of the electorate.

So now is a poor time for a precipitous drop in cash flow for Sanders. Amid a string of big losses to front-runner Hillary Clinton in April, Sanders’ fundraising for the month fell to $25.8 million — which would seem a significant amount, except that in both February and March, he raised nearly $20 million more.

At the same time, he has been burning through his cash far more quickly than Clinton, outspending her in many of the big states he lost. Sanders has not yet reported his spending for April, but he likely spent well more than he raised based on the amount of airtime purchased, the size of his campaign’s payroll, and the other expenses the campaign has in a typical month.


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http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/05/cash-crunch-complicates-bernie-sanders-california-comeback-dreams.html

[Gothmog]

1. Sanders has no path to the nomination

Sanders is wasting his donors' money right now. He will not be the nominee and this is really an exercise in his own vanity

[Eleanors38]

3. Nah, my $ to Sanders is for building a post-election movement to ream the Democratic Party.

[Hortensis]

6. Stupid, stupid, stupid way to want to act.

A post-election movement was a fine and inspiring thought. For half a second, I thought, "Okay!"

But imagining that "reaming" a membership that outnumbers you by at least 10:1 is going to result in anything but failure is stupid, stupid, stupid.

You've already lost my support. And so quickly and easily.

Go make your own party. One warning: People who see "reaming" others as a means of influencing them have a way of ending up reaming each other and falling out, and apart. Just so you know.

[passiveporcupine]

9. stupid stupid response

[Eleanors38]

17. Must be an echo in here. nt

[Eleanors38]

16. "Just so YOU know:" My reaming will include those who are center-right corporatists...

Do you feel threatened?



There are millions -- beyind either you are me -- who want a party which will put up a clear agenda against the Far Right with candidates who support that agenda. And you are hearing from them right now in this campaign. And I WILL donate more money in that cause.

You know, now?

[Hortensis]

22. Nope. Not because I'm not that but because that

attitude is doomed to failure. Go fix yourself, E38.

First item is your profound deficit in respect for the rights, beliefs and wishes of others. Replace the contempt and no doubt gratifying but mistaken sense of superiority with an understanding of common beliefs and goals and the need for respectful cooperation to achieve them.

Otherwise, the only ones who are going to get "reamed" are those who imagine their great virtue gives them a right to push others around. And, btw, that always happens -- those whose righteousness is never appreciated by others always end up self-marginalized while the others go on about their, and the nation's, business.

That is also the main reason why the wanna-be reamers have never been able to build a successful party of their own, much less elbow aside the liberals and take over the Democratic Party. They don't respect each other either, they regard cooperation as a dirty word, and they end up fighting internally over minutiae and falling apart.

Take a lesson.

[Eleanors38]

25. Lotta gobble-d-gook there, Hortensis. Ain't "fixin" a thing. Vote Canova!

[Hortensis]

27. I would have bet my checkbook on it, E38.

I write these things for others reading these posts so they understand some of the differences between liberals and radicals and why this forum is so exceptionally contentious.

[Eleanors38]

28. Write your stuff for whoever. Radical? Bernie is LBJ with a 4-barrel carburetor.

If some here are so rad, what do you think of FDR? Is he a little too hot for you?

[Hortensis]

30. Policy on its own isn't what defines radicals.

It's extreme attitudes and behaviors in pursuit of changes/policies, which may or may not themselves be genuinely extreme rather than just out beyond the mainstream (like Bernie's). Some liberals actually support policies to the left of Bernie's, are greens and various types of socialists for instance, but the means they would use to achieve their goals, where they would draw lines, and their attitudes toward those of other ideologies is tremendously different. Notably they lack the potential for the absolutist and authoritarian behaviors seen in most extremists. They are the anti-authoritarians.

You mentioned FDR -- great example. Both liberal and conservative progressives worked with a very establishment FDR to create the New Deal. Left wing radical progressives quarreled with him and the rest of them (because they wanted far more comprehensive change than the much larger majorities would agree too, couldn't compromise, and became hostile and troublesome) and ended up mostly marginalized and out of it. They did form their own party and run their own candidate in an attempt to derail FDR and the New Deal, but as is too typical their party fell apart from internal disagreements (due to that intrinsic intolerance of other opinions, they don't do factions well) before long.

A classic example of the working difference between radicals/extremists and liberals and other more moderately behaved types.

[Eleanors38]

35. Tough overhaul of political institutions, beginning with parties, isn't radical.

Nor is it extreme. For too long the Democratic Party has drifted to the right, and dropped its support of the working class and unions; it has made peace with corporate power and thus no longer provides meaningful opposition to this overwhelming sector in our economy and culture. The GOP is an institutional arm of corporate power; the Democrats are vying for that position. Continuing to allow that drift -- some 40 years, now -- has greatly contributed to declining prosperity, poor job prospects, and educational indebtedness; it has weakened the resolve to both defend gains in our social safety net and a woman's right to choose, and worst of all removed progressives as a player in trying to resolve the severe problems of violence and incarceration in our society (it seems reactionary politics have succeeded in legitimizing, even for post-progressives, the narrow avenues of law enforcement, prohibition and culture war as the only means for social change).

This is what is infuriating many millions of Americans: one party affirmatively acts on its "authoritarianism;" the other has given up on meaningful ways of changing the way we do things, weakening itself in the eyes of its opposition. (It should be no wonder that the Party has no leverage negotiating with the GOP. This is NO LONGER the party of FDR.) I will continue to actively work for fundamental change, as I hope those other millions will. To do less is irresponsible and unreasonable. Respectfully, remember this: To persist in supporting an increasingly calcified and inert system is in itself a form of extremism.

[Hortensis]

38. No, it's not. Reaming is. We don't ream people.

It's not only extremely counterproductive, it's way beyond the pale.

[Eleanors38]

39. Reaming: It's called out-voting the opposition at all Party levels.

I think it is a measure of how brittle and self-absorbed much of the political climate has become when we rest great meaning on the thin backbone of a tool metaphor.

[Hortensis]

40. No. But if you're giving up profoundly offensive

anal degradation metaphors, that's good as far as it goes. The next step, though, is to dredge up enough empathy to understand that the opinions and wishes of those who disagree with you also matter, and usually have some validity in some way. They have to be recognized, considered and agreements on how to achieve mutual goals cooperated on, and not just because the various "other" groups outnumber yours many times over.

Those who can empathize and compromise are not true radicals or extremists by personality but probably just influenced by some who are.

If that's not possible, I'd embrace it and just try to be a good one, if it were in me. The positive aspirations of radicals, extremists, zealots, whatever they're called, need to remain much larger than their subsequent hostility toward opponents who won't fall in line and admit the superiority of their ideology. Keeping to sympathetic far-left forums would probably help.

“The radicals are really always saying the same thing. They do not change; everybody else changes. They are accused of the most incompatible crimes, of egoism and mania for power, indifference to the fate of their own cause, fanaticism, triviality, want of humor, buffoonery and irreverence. But they sound a certain note. Hence the great practical power of consistent radicals. To all appearance nobody follows them, yet everyone believes them. They hold a tuning-fork and sound A, and everybody knows it really is A, though the time-honored pitch is G flat. The community cannot get that A out of its head. Nothing can prevent an upward tendency in the popular tone so long as the real A is kept sounding.” ― John Jay Chapman

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Eleanors38]

42. "Profoundly offensive and degradation metaphors:" This seems to be your concern: Tone.

Respectfully, this is small potatoes. Reaming out means to change the direction of the Party, and that means changing the people who are in "leadership" positions. Even in the center-corporatist Democratic Party there are Elections for doing just that.

I'm sorry, but Chapman sounds more than a little extreme to me. His views certainly don't apply to me and the people I know. I'll go with MLK.

By and large, you seem to have erected a pre-packaged strawman.

[bettyellen]

8. reaming the Dems instead of helping get a majority in congress?

fuck that. SBS should be splitting his print ads with good downticket candidates, and featuring them in his rallies.
Otherwise his run in nothing more than symbolic.

[snowy owl]

11. Getting independents to the polls for Bernie best way to help down-ticket dems

Hardly rocket science

[bettyellen]

12. Clinton's voters are voting the downticket- SBS's voters not. Indeed, it is not rocket science.....

but it is also not happening, the votes for him or the votes for his few publicized proteges.

[obamanut2012]

15. Michigan proved that isn't true

[Gothmog]

29. An ‘enormous drop-off’ hurt down-ballot Dems in Wisconsin

It was the Sanders voters who failed to vote down ballot in Wisconsin and so allowed a homophobic Scott Walker appointee to win a race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/enormous-drop-hurt-down-ballot-dems-wisconsin

So what went wrong for the left? The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel published an interesting report today on an important analysis of the election results.

Bradley won the election, a surprise to Democrats. This morning, some progressives picked a culprit: voters who cast ballots for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and left the rest of their ballots blank. According to exit polling conducted by the independent group DecisionDesk and BenchMark Politics, perhaps 15 percent of Sanders voters skipped the Bradley-Kloppenburg race; just 4 percent of Hillary Clinton voters did the same.

“There was an enormous drop-off,” said Brandon Finnigin of DecisionDesk. “There was a substantial number of voters in that voted for Sanders, then for nothing else.”

It’s important to emphasize that while Sanders has been criticized for raising money for himself, and not for other candidates, Democratic campaign committees, or state parties, he did endorse Kloppenburg over Bradley. Hillary Clinton also focused attention on the state Supreme Court fight, telling a Milwaukee audience over the weekend, “There is no place on any Supreme Court or any court in this country, no place at all for Rebecca Bradley’s decades-long track record of dangerous rhetoric against women, survivors of sexual assault and the LGBT community.”

The Sanders campaign has been solely about Sanders. Sanders does not care about down ballot candidates which is why few if any super delegates will be supporting him

[DLCWIdem]

43. Also. Both candidates were asked to say something about Feingold only Clinton did

[Gothmog]

45. Which was reflected in the votes cast or not caste

[Eleanors38]

19. Well, I'm supporting Tim Canova against the DINO DWS. How about you?

He is a Democrat, isn't he? Can we count on your support?

[bettyellen]

21. Good! I have a local candidate that I am helping. Will likely choose another out of state

campaign to help as well, Canova will make my list of possibilities- thanks! I am all about trying to get good people in seats that could be contested. It is rare we have any local action where I live, so I usually pick up a candidate here.

[msanthrope]

33. How much money do you think is going to be left? nt

[enid602]

2. sinking

Proof that berners see the ship is sinking.

[firebrand80]

4. He probably saw a spike after IN nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Kick for money bomb!

[redwitch]

7. Sending some tomorrow!

I have so loved his fundraising without the Pacs!

[passiveporcupine]

10. Just another reason to send another donation.

Need to do it today. Thanks for reminding me.

[nc4bo]

13. He'll be fine! Wonderful so many are so very, very, merrily concerned!

[pdsimdars]

14. I send at the begining and in the middle of the month.

[libdem4life]

18. I'm on auto-deduct. n/t

[PotatoChip]

20. I just sent another donation.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Orsino]

23. Lack of funding is also one of his greatest strengths.

Had he grabbed the easy money, there would have been little poiint to his running at all.

[vintx]

24. Hopefully this news spurs lots of his supporters to send in some $

[onecaliberal]

26. Just donated again.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. PoliticusUSA must have a Cash Crunch--they, like Huffington Post, don't pay for most contributions!

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Oh, but you get the privilege of having your content restricted to only your blog and theirs.

It's a "Help Wanted" cattle call, with bloggers freely contributing their works, the new model of not paying!


And people wonder why the writing industry is imploding--because sites expect to pay nothing, like so many today!

PoliticusUSA is growing fast, it’s an election season, and we have openings! PoliticusUSA is looking for bloggers, editors, and staff to join our team. If you want to reach one of the biggest liberal audiences in the United States, here is your opportunity.

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7). Media bloggers and bloggers with an interest in presidential, congressional, and state elections will be given additional consideration.

Applications without writing samples or links will not be considered.

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[magical thyme]

32. I donated the day after Indiana

and my autodeduct hit within a couple days of that.

Opposite of last month, lol, when my autodeduct hit and then I threw an extra few in within a couple days.

The must be thrilled to see their handiwork take root.

[Yavin4]

34. This is why big states like CA and NY are at the tail end of the process.

If CA were earlier, or even first, candidates would have to raise a ton of money very early on to compete there. With IA and NH, candidates can compete even without raising huge sums of cash.

[Cobalt Violet]

36. I haven't gotten an email from him in 2 days.

They are a reminder fro me.

[angrychair]

37. I'll reply with all the seriousness this OP was made in

[TBF]

41. Thanks for the reminder -

I'm nearly at the max but I can still donate a little more.

[sadoldgirl]

44. Jus gave some more. Thanks!