Cillizza: Bernie Sanders’s $26 million cash haul is a major problem for Hillary Clinton

[portlander23]

Cillizza: Bernie Sanders’s $26 million cash haul is a major problem for Hillary Clinton

Clinton held 58 fundraising events to raise her total; Sanders held seven. As of the end of September, Sanders had brought in 1.3 million total donations from 650,000 individuals since he began running. Clinton's campaign did not release how many total donors she has. And Sanders ended September with $25 million in the bank; Clinton did not release how much money her campaign had on hand.

Read between the lines, and you get this: Sanders is drawing huge amounts of small-dollar donations via the Web. That means two important things: (1) Sanders has been able to concentrate on meeting and greeting potential voters rather than spending his time courting donors, and (2) He has been able to conserve money because he isn't spending cash on lavish events for donors.

Money is, of course, a sign of broader trends in the race as well. Sanders is the grass-roots candidate who is appealing to the heart of the party base; Clinton is the lead candidate, accruing donations — at least in part — out of a sense that, in the end, she will be the nominee.

That story line is — as you might have guessed — not a good one for Clinton. It reinforces everything that people already believe about the dynamics of the contest — that Sanders is the energy candidate who is speaking the language of the base and that Clinton continues to struggle to inspire that sort of devotion and passion.

Sanders, who began this campaign as an oddity, now has every vestige of a serious candidate — from crowds to organization to money. And he has the one thing that Clinton badly wants/needs: energy.

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. A right wing hack whose task is to take Clinton down.

I think DU can do better. Sleeping with the enemy gets you fleas and bedbugs.

[djean111]

4. Well, David Brock is a right wing/now centrist wing hack whose job is to take Bernie down.

He gets quoted here all time.
Neither one can "take a candidate down".

[djean111]

19. He is left wing and anti-Bernie?

Neither Brock not Hillary are actually left wing. Correct the Record his Brock's super PAC devoted to doing whatever it takes to get the nomination for Hillary, including trying to slime Bernie.
And, in Hillary's own words -

"You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center," Clinton told the audience at a Women for Hillary event in Ohio. "I plead guilty."

Didn't you get the memo? The Democratic Party merely has a left wing contingent; they are called outliers and not very welcome except when their votes are wanted.

[DURHAM D]

10. Cleezy is not very good at but he keeps trying. nt

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. He sure does keep trying to carry the water for the RW

I just read did a quick google search and there is an article about him posting 50 Clinton headlines on the e-mail BS.

And still she stands.

[DURHAM D]

18. Yes. And Still She Stands.

Cleezy is Andrea Mitchell's most frequent guest on MSNBC, has been for years. What does that tell you?

[Fumesucker]

2. No, Bernie has one thing Hillary can never have, credibility

That's where the energy is coming from, credibility.

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. He had never been scrutinized. Never.

I venture to guess that very few people could hold up under such scrutiny. No one is perfect. No one says everything perfectly correct every time.

Every statement, thought, action of Clinton is reviewed with the most negative lens and then given the most negative connotation to justify the bizarre constant frenzied attacks.

[Javaman]

26. so what exactly is hillary's camp waiting for?

keeping their powder dry and all that?

[roguevalley]

28. something they can say that doesn't like petty and minute, javaman. Sincerely, I am

trying not to laugh at the pettiness of some of the commentary here.

[BlueWaveDem]

3. Yeah okay.

Another ridiculous article from a notorious anti-Hillary hack. Hillary has broad appeal across every demographic of the Democratic party and is the first choice of Dem voters by a huge margin. She broke fundraising records as well.

[djean111]

5. But ridiculous articles from notorious Bernie-hater David Brock are okay?

Articles directly from a Hillary Super PAC head are to be believed? bwahahaha!

[BlueWaveDem]

6. I posted no such articles.

[djean111]

9. Articles by Brock are posted here at DU. By Hillary supporters.

Do you read the pro-Hillary stuff, or just make comments in pro-Bernie OPs?
We can thank Brock, however, for releasing such an egregiously stupid email trying to tie Bernie to Hugo Chavez that Bernie raised over a million dollars in one day. There's that.

[BlueWaveDem]

11. And I'm sure you denounce anti-Bernie articles without

Also denouncing anti-Hillary articles. Difference is I'm not asking you to denounce any of them the way you are doing to me.

[roguevalley]

29. ah, you want your cake and eat it too. Brock is your right wing hack. Hillary

even has him over to the house.

[dsc]

25. when did David Brock call Sanders

a Hebe or the equivalent and get fired for doing so. That is what Cilliza did to Clinton he called her a bitch and then got fired from a gig for having done so.

[Javaman]

27. even if the 90% of the article is BS...

you can't get past this...

"Clinton held 58 fundraising events to raise her total; Sanders held seven. As of the end of September, Sanders had brought in 1.3 million total donations from 650,000 individuals since he began running. Clinton's campaign did not release how many total donors she has. And Sanders ended September with $25 million in the bank; Clinton did not release how much money her campaign had on hand."

58 events against 7 events.

she had 27 mill. he had 25 mill.

doesn't take a genius to figure out whose more popular.

[WillyT]

7. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[ibegurpard]

13. new goalposts incoming

And Bernie will overshoot them as well.

[aidbo]

16. Except this article wasn't about emails.

[frylock]

20. Correct the Matters.

[Metric System]

17. Was he drinking a tall glass of Mad Bitch Beer while writing this? Sorry, but his bias is known and

his opinions are hopelessly compromised.

[SoapBox]

21. Poor Hill...she has had such a rough time...

Flying all across the country, in her private loaner jet, to all those $2700 per plate private get togethers with Billionaires and Banksters...flying high above all those little people that are gathering by the hundreds of thousands in homes, restaurants, parks and rallies for Bernie.

Poor Hill...she's so very busy shoveling up all that dirty money.

[Gore1FL]

23. It probably means the sources are of questionable bethical value.

Why, in the context given, did you go with illegal?