This Is The Most Eye-Popping Stat In Bernie Sanders' Latest Fundraising Report

[roguevalley]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-maxed-out-donors_56203715e4b06462a13b8414

.039 percent of Sanders' donors have given the maximum amount allowed.

As Bernie Sanders gears up for a Democratic primary more protracted than anyone initially expected, he has a unique advantage over the rest of the field. Almost every single person who has given to his campaign can give again. Since Sanders announced his White House run back in April, he has raised nearly $41.5 million, his campaign said on Thursday. But the most amazing stat is this: only .039 percent of the donors are prohibited from giving again.

According to data provided by the campaign, just 270 of Sanders' 680,959 campaign donors gave the maximum $2,700 they're allowed to give during the primary. (The campaign initially said they had 650,000 donors, but they gave a more precise figure to The Huffington Post). And that actually overstates the number by one. The campaign has already returned the $2,700 donation it received from Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, who infamously hiked the price of a drug often used to help AIDS patients. But because the return came late in this fundraising quarter, it couldn't be reflected in the campaign filing.

The amazing number of small donors means that Sanders' fundraising will more than likely maintain its pace. The senator raised more than $27 million in the third quarter. According to the campaign, the average donation was $30. His campaign hit 1 million individual donations in September, becoming the first 2016 campaign to reach that milestone.

Meanwhile, Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton raised $28 million in the third quarter, and 93 percent of her donations were $100 or less. Her campaign did not disclose how many of her donors have given the legal maximum.

HIP-HIP-HOORAY! Apparently, they know the value of money.

[Stardust]

1. K&R

[liberal_at_heart]

2. I will be donating many more times before the primary is over. That is for sure.

[JDPriestly]

4. We will too.

Bought my Bernie gear this week too.

From Bernie's website of course.


But I might also get a Feel the Bern tee-shirt.

The Feel the Bern website is awesome.

[Live and Learn]

6. It really is. Great flyers to print out there also. nt

[Kalidurga]

3. Bernie is more than half way to his goal.

I think he will surpass his goal before the primaries and caucuses are over.

[Live and Learn]

5. Yep, and I know I for one will hit the limit eventually.

If they could count all the extras I have volunteered (labor and materials), I'd already be over. Bernie supporters are giving lots more than money.

[WillyT]

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

[sabrina 1]

8. Excellent point. However regarding Hillary, she can get untold amounts of money, with no limits

and no requirement to identify either the donors or the amounts, by USING what she says she opposes, the Citizens United ruling that makes it possible for Candidates to USE Super Pacs for that purpose.

We saw that when Brock tried, but failed, to smear Sanders, something Clinton has not condemned

So she can spend as wildly as she pleases, she appears to be doing, knowing that obscene amounts of money will flow into her campaign through the CU backdoor anyhow.