2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So, about this meme that you have to have bazillions of dollars [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)In the primary, it's basically Party candidates against one another and a few million should be enough.
However, once the primaries are over, Citizens United becomes all-important when Democrat campaigns against Republican for the White House. Big Money will begin to unite against their single adversary.
Since Sanders is principled and is bucking the Citizens United new rules, and has neither big donors in the primaries and definitely none (no Super PACs) for the G.E., he'll be an easy target to defeat by the GOP money machine and the Libertarian billionaires who want to destroy "Big Gubmint".
In this era of Citizens United, your preferred primary candidate has decided to handicap himself just before entering the ring. Not smart. Noble? Principled? Ethical? Morally sound? Absolutely. But not a winning strategy against an opponent who is willing to bring out the big guns while Sanders holds a water pistol.