2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary has 40 lobbyists fundraising for her presidential bid - (Mother Jones July 2015)
Her campaign filings reveal that 40 lobbyists are fundraising for her presidential bid.
By Russ Choma | Wed Jul. 15, 2015 9:29 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton hauled in $47.5 million in the first three months of her campaign, besting both Republican Jeb Bush, who raised $11.4 million, and her surprising Democratic challenger, Bernie Sanders, who racked up $15.2 million. According to her campaign, she had more than 250,000 donors, of whom 61 percent were female, an unprecedented number of female donors. But what Clinton did not highlight was that she had relied on wealthy donors and lobbyists to pull together most of her money.
Clinton reported raising $8 millionor 16.8 percent of her totalfrom small donors who gave $200 or less. Many politicians raise far less from small donors. Jeb Bush, for example, raised just 3 percent of his campaign cash from small donors. But Sanders blew Clinton out of the water when it came to grassroots fundraising, taking in $10.4 million (or 68 percent) of his warchest from $200-or-less donors.
The bulk of Clinton's campaign funds came from an elite, wealthy class of donorsthose who can afford to give the maximum donation. In 2014, roughly 0.04 percent of Americans made the maximum donation for a primary campaign of $2,600 (adjusted to $2,700 in this election cycle). Bush's campaign raised more than 80 percent of its cash from this upper-crust of donors, and Clinton raised 64 percent. Clinton may well have had 250,000 donorsbut just 11,400 of them accounted for almost two-thirds of her total fundraising.
Clinton also got a big boost from her bundlerssupporters who tap their personal and professional networks to amass donations for the campaign. Candidates are only required to list the names of registered lobbyists who have bundled for them, and Clinton did go above and beyond that by releasing on her website the names of 122 people who had raised $100,000 or more for her campaign. With much less fanfare, she also disclosed to the Federal Election Commission the names of 40 registered lobbyists who bundled just over $2 million for her campaign....
Full article:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/hillary-clinton-fundraising-bundlers-lobbyists
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)So tired of hearing how she cares about the middle class and poor (now one in the same).
according to the FEC, 73% of campaign contributions to Brenie's campaign is from donations of less than $200
More than any canidiate, D or R, in this election!
I am a progressive, ask me why.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Its called winning.....would you prefer a Republican? Because they WILL pull out all the stops....
Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Yes winning...whatever it takes to prevenr that...
Keep your high moral stanards...
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)some democrats make me wonder why I'm in the party.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)It SHOULD scare you too...
Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)For the next President...Hillary Clinton
Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Cause no one is perfect....not even Sanders....butcat l3ast she can win
Avalux
(35,015 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Bet on the winner..
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Right now I'm going to vote for the person I think best represents what I believe, and has the most feasible plan for our country. In the primary.
If Hillary ends up being the Democratic nominee, I will vote for her in the general. Will it be because I don't want the Republican to win? Yes.
So - it's hypocritical of me to criticize you for voting for Hillary in the primary for that very reason. I may end up doing the same about a year from now. We'll be on the same team then, but I can't go there yet. I hope you understand, and again, sorry.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)by the rich. I want someone who stands on the side of the people. Her husband sold out the unions,the middle class, and especially the poor. He changed like a chameleon once he took office. Hillary's flip flops make us believe she will do the same. Furthermore her strategy of separating women from other voters is turning most people off, when they notice it. I do not believe you should continually act out of fear of a republican because if you do, you end up with the candidate most like a republican. You have to stand for something sometime and not give up before the fight starts.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Your meme "Hillary is owned" bullshit we are all sick of it now...
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)A Dollar Store campaign is not going to win....
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Im not targeting HRC here specifically.
Its ugly and wrong for any candidate.
We really need bi-partisan campaign finance reform. Unfortunately the only candidate that was pushing this extensively, Larry Lessig, has been shut out.
think
(11,641 posts)decided it's OK as well.
Bernie is not for sale. And he represents the concerns of the American people over the corporations that have rigged the game.
It is a shame Lessig was shut out but not surprising. Corporations run both parties as well as the media. Guess we'll see if the people are ready to end this nonsense and bring back some stability to the American economy and it's citizens.
olddots
(10,237 posts)......the worst way .
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)BootinUp
(47,156 posts)It will definitely be needed.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)to Bernie to use in the general election? It's what a good Democrat would do, isn't it?
BootinUp
(47,156 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Armstead
(47,803 posts)Those who aren't Billionaires will be left on the sidelines after the election
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)She'll need every penny in the General. Maybe she'll get a chance to appoint a couple of Supreme Court justices and we can undo Citizens united but until then she will have to work within the system as it is.
think
(11,641 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)Now, the campaign is kicking ass in the polls but the "critics" say she should slow it down.
Hey, it's called "a winning effort". The stakes being what the are, I want my candidate to do whatever it takes to beat the GOP.
think
(11,641 posts)oasis
(49,388 posts)95% of Democrats would tell you "that's a good thing".
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)interesting...
oasis
(49,388 posts)Somewhere along the line, a giant leap in the polls is bound to happen.
No rocket science involved here.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)postatomic
(1,771 posts)And someone who donates $2,700 isn't part of the elite-wealthy class. I could ask you why there is no transparency with the Sanders Campaign given that 70% of his donors are 'shadow' donors. I'd love to know just to see how many Republicans have donated to Sanders just because they want to get Hillary.