Hillary Clinton
In reply to the discussion: Democratic voters deserve answers. [View all]jmowreader
(53,201 posts)A lot of Bernie's donors are people who rush to their computers and fire off another $10 or $20 donation every time Hillary touches up her lipstick, so he's getting millions of very small donations from quite a few people. But you are very right: there's no way the amount of money he is claiming to have is coming from $10 donations.
I think the Sanders campaign is somewhat like Romney 2012 - his advisors are doing a lot more things than they're telling him about. Bernie may have absolutely no idea of the specifics of his money. He knows he got...oh, $50 million this reporting quarter and his average donation is $27...but he DOESN'T know 85 percent of that came in $20 or less per donation and the rest is extralegal-sized/illegal foreign contributions. Sanders' isolation from the inner workings of his campaign also explains how Bernie "didn't see" Uretsky's stolen data but he sure was able to capitalize on it: his team just didn't tell him.
This is in opposition to Hillary's camp; over here, our candidate is tuned in enough that NOTHING escapes her eye.