Bernie Sanders' campaign says it's reached 4 million donations

[Donkees]

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Nov 19, 2019

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign says that it has received contributions from 4 million donors.

In Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, he didn’t reach that number of contributors until after winning the New Hampshire primary.

Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir says, “This is what momentum looks like.”

Last week, the Sanders campaign said it had made more than 7.75 million calls and sent more than 63 million text messages, mostly to voters in early states.

https://www.wral.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-says-it-s-reached-4-million-donors/18777480/

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[still_one]

1. I wonder how many of those donations came from those who voted for Jill Stein in the GE

[NurseJackie]

2. ...

[still_one]

3. LOL

[LeftTurn3623]

5. so what?

Do those voters not count?

[still_one]

7. They helped elect who we have in the WH today.

[George II]

11. That's an odd conclusion. Without knowing who they all are we don't even know that they're voters.

[George II]

4. As of the end of the third quarter he reported details of only about 100,000* contributors....

Who are these additional 3.9 million people? Where do they live, what are their occupations and employers? How many times and how much have they given?

*correction: only 50,000

Lots of open questions to be answered.

[brooklynite]

6. The data is all available on the FEC database

[George II]

8. I have downloaded all of the reports from the major candidates. Sanders' reports only include....

....detailed information from about 50,000 contributors (I overestimated this at 100,000 above) The rest are "unitemized".

In fact, his Treasurer has reported $61.4M individual contributions, only $18.6M (30%) are itemized:

$61,456,335.38 Total individual contributions
$18,660,347.00 Itemized individual contributions
$42,795,988.00 Unitemized individual contributions

[billpolonsky]

9. the story has been updated

"This story has been corrected to show Sanders had more than 4 million contributions, not contributions from 4 million donors."

Still alot.

Go Bernie!

[Donkees]

12. Thanks

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[George II]

14. Those numbers are true, but not representative. There's one woman who, until she maxed out....

...at $2,800, gave an average of TEN contributions a day.

What's the difference between a person who gives $2,800 in one contribution or one who gives $2,800 in 800 contributions? Which is "worse"?

Finally, without revealing the actual details of those 4 million, we don't know how accurate those numbers really are.

[George II]

13. That's a HUGE update, especially since his contributors are known to have made more than 800....

....individual contributions. If that were the case for all his contributors (which isn't the case), that would bring that 4,000,000 down significantly.

Getting contributors to give multiple small contributions enables them to boast of XXXX number of contributions, which isn't representative of what really happened.

[billpolonsky]

15. Well...

Bernie gets a lot of small donations from regular folk.
You dance with who brought you...

[George II]

16. Historically his campaign(s) have had to return hundreds of thousands of contributions...

....worth $millions due to them being impermissible for one reason or another.

[TidalWave46]

10. Interesting to see the influence of money in politics at work.

Sanders is at a pretty solid third right now. Lets see if money can bring him to the top. No doubt he is the Benjamin leader.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Donkees.