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Sanders’ People-Powered Campaign Smashes Record Number of Donations, Revolutionizes American Politics

JANUARY 2, 2016

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign raised more than $33 million in the final three months of last year in a way that rewrote the record books for White House campaigns. The tally for the year-end quarter pushed his total raised last year to $73 million from more than 1 million individuals who made a record 2.5 million donations.

“This people-powered campaign is revolutionizing American politics,” said Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager. “What we are showing is that we can run a strong, national campaign without a super PAC and without depending on millionaires and billionaires for their support. We are making history and we are proud of it.”

The 2,513,665 donations to Sanders’ campaign broke the record set four years ago by President Barack Obama’s re-election committee. Through Dec. 31, 2011, Obama had chalked up 2,209,636 donations.

The more than 1 million donors to Sanders also is a milestone unmatched by any first-time White House candidate. Obama’s millionth donor in his 2008 campaign came on Feb. 27 of that election year. (In the next election cycle, the incumbent president’s re-election campaign hit the 1-million- donors mark on Oct. 17, 2011.)

Unlike other campaigns, small contributions made up the vast majority of all the money Sanders’ campaign raised. The average donation to Sanders during the past three months was $27.16.

Unlike other presidential campaigns, 99.9 percent of Sanders’ supporters may give again because they have not reached the legal limit on donations to traditional campaign committees. Only a few hundred of the more than 1 million Sanders donors have given the maximum $2,700.

Unlike candidates who have coordinated with so-called super PACs, Sanders has refused to work with the fund-raising behemoths that have corrupted American politics.

All told, Sanders supporters gave $33,281,952 during the Federal Election Commission reporting period that ended at midnight on New Year’s Eve. Secretary Clinton’s campaign announced on Friday that she raised $37 million in the last quarter for use in the Democratic primary. The total for Sanders far surpassed donations in either of the previous two quarters of his eight-month long campaign and brought the fundraising total for 2015 to $72.8 million. Sanders ended the year with $28.4 million cash on hand.

The record number of donations to Sanders is one way to measure the grassroots enthusiasm for his campaign. Another sign of his success has been big turnouts at rallies and town meetings in Iowa and New Hampshire and other states. In Iowa alone, more than 35,000 have come to Sanders-sponsored campaign events.

“Bernie is the only candidate generating the kind of broad-based enthusiasm and excitement that Democrats must have in order to raise funds for a general election campaign and keep the White House and make gains in Congress,” Weaver said.

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[sarge43]

1. That is a lot of people feeling the Bern

No wonder Camp Weathervane is going to DefCon 4.

[libdem4life]

2. Yeah...rock on!

[zazen]

3. Can't BELIEVE the wall-to-wall network coverage of this groundbreaking accomplishment! oh, wait . .

Mr. Zazen and I were just discussing how, in all of our political lives, we have perhaps never been so unsettled as now, with the almost 100% BLACKOUT of Sanders' campaign.

It's clear this is beyond just plain ignorance on the part of the ever-mediocre "analysts" in the mainstream news.

Of course, so many past "protest movements" have been preemptively silenced or quickly squashed, and we just didn't know it before social media, because as a populace in the age of mass media we've had little way to circumventing the corporate-controlled powers that be.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. Not that I fully agreed with his politics, but Howard Dean was probably a victim of media quashing a

viable candidate's run.

[Duval]

11. He definitely was, Ed. The "Dean Scream" was politicized by the media.

And I well remember the darn "Swift Boating" of Kerry. We so need to break up the media monopolies.

[napi21]

13. Howard was the victim of media dirty tricks.

The thing that squashed his rise in the polls was the media coverage of what they called "the Dean Scream!" The media deliberately blocked out the ambient crowd noise in the room, and enhanced the sound from Dean's mike, making it sound like he was screaming. He was only joining in with the excitement of the crowd. I've NEVER forgiven them for that trick!

Bernie needs to be on constant alert, looking for whatever trick they might think up between now and voting days!

[polichick]

14. And third-way "Dems" were part of the con that took Dean out...

Sad that he has sold his soul to work for m$nbc.

[napi21]

19. What's wrong with MSNBC?

It's a whole lot better than FOX, CNN etc. I LOVE listening to Rachel and The Last Word. They have quite a few interesting guests on too.

[polichick]

20. You haven't noticed that anyone who covered the TPP is now gone?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

23. I remember when James Carville said:

"Stick a fork in him, he's done," and being all too proud about it.

[polichick]

24. Too true - I had forgotten that.

[zeemike]

15. The Dean screm was not the only dirty trick

I watched the Iowa caucuses and the Dean supporters were told to wear funny red hats...whoever thought that one up was a dirty trickster because it set up the crazy narrative used against him.

[Cowpunk]

17. The Dean Scream was just the final nail in the coffin.

For months before that, it seemed like every article I read about him described his as "Angry Howard Dean". There was a constant stream of negative stuff being fed to the press about Dean by the Wesley Clark campaign. Howard's rant after the Iowa caucus(to be truthful, he was a bit unhinged in that moment) confirmed once and for all the wild man narrative that had been carefully constructed about Dean, and the press went nuts with it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. Sweet success

Bernie - a campaign by the people for the people.

[haikugal]

5. K&R!!

[retrowire]

6. KnR

I'm betting most of those donators will be votes.

[Live and Learn]

8. K&R nt

[cascadiance]

9. Notice how Hillary always talks about the *amount* certain groups give to her campaign...

... and not the numbers of people giving to her campaign. That was the way she stated it in the last debate too if you noted that.

Emphasizing the NUMBER of donors (and better yet NUMBER of *voters* since so many today don't have money either) is more a testament to reflecting the democratic choice of a nation.

[sorechasm]

21. Which makes me wonder why Bernie was even accused of stealing Hillary's voter rolls?

I doubt her list of donors was of any value to the Sanders campaign. A list of 1%'ers aren't ever going to be donating to the Sanders campaign. OTH: Bernie's 1 million donor list would be invaluable to other campaigns.

The entire lawsuit seems to be a guard dog: 'We've got our eyes wide open if anyone tries anything nefarious.'

[nenagh]

10. K&R

[Duval]

12. K&R Thanks!

[leftcoastmountains]

16. K&R

[TBF]

18. K&R nt

[Pastiche423]

22. Sweet n/t