2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I can show every Hillary supporter why they should be supporting Bernie [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and they are grouped by which donations have different amount ranges in them.
The largest percentage of the NUMBER of donations that Hillary Clinton gets are those where the donation amount is the maximum of $2700 per donation, where for Sanders only 1.2% of the NUMBER of his donations are donations giving the maximum amount of $2700 each.
Now, could there be cheating going on, where there are some donors giving to the Sanders campaigns giving many small donations instead of one large donation to his campaign to make it appear these donations represent more people than they do in actuality? Perhaps, but I suspect if that were being done to any extent, the corporate press would be sure to let us know about it. All of these donations have to have people's names documented, etc. and any kind of activity would be sure to be spotted, since lying about who's giving money would be a crime.
I think whether you allow for inflation or not, these numbers show at least a degree of equivalence in their campaigns at this point, if not having Bernie ahead. With McCutcheon decision in place, it isn't hard to see how there might be more money collectively being spent on campaigns directly to candidates for everyone. I'll give you that.
But just as important are the polls too, where Bernie now is AHEAD of where Obama was at this point in 2007 in September in terms of his numbers versus Clinton's. That's something that isn't affected by monetary inflation. Those are just polling numbers sir!