Voters Keep Investing in Sanders' Revolution, Making Clinton Nervous

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Voters Keep Investing in Sanders' Revolution, Making Clinton Nervous

The Bernie Sanders campaign has raised 66 percent of its money from donors giving less than $200.

As Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton continue to spar over fossil fuel donations, The Hill reports Saturday that Sanders' $44 million March haul "has broken new ground for online political fundraising."

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Reporter Jonathan Swan writes: "His record-breaking sums come in spite of the fact that Sanders relies on small-dollar donors instead of well-financed millionaires and associated super-PACs and does not have a traditional finance team."

According to The Hill's analysis of FEC filings, Clinton "has raised only 18 percent of her money from donors giving less than $200, giving her a narrower fundraising base than Sanders. Sanders’s campaign has raised 66 percent of its money from donors giving less than $200."

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Clinton is more reliant on traditional fundraising than is Sanders, who's raised the bulk of his money online. Even as she prepares for New York's primary, she has scheduled fundraisers before then in Denver, Virginia, Miami and Los Angeles — at the home of actor George Clooney.

She needs to continue raising primary dollars because June contests in California and New Jersey will be expensive. Sanders faces fewer financial anxieties.

Already, The Hill reported separately on Saturday, "She’s investing more money and time in New York than she originally had expected, underscoring the importance of a victory on her home turf."

In fact, that story continued, "Clinton will spend four of the next six days in New York, signaling the state is more important to her than Wisconsin, where she is an underdog to Sanders in Tuesday’s primary."

The most recent poll has Sanders leading Clinton 49-43 percent. And a Marquette Law School survey shows Sanders ahead 57 percent to 37 percent among self-identified independents—

which the Washington Post says is "part of an alarming national trend for Clinton of being unpopular with unaffiliated voters who can help swing general elections."

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/02/voters-keep-investing-sanders-revolution-making-clinton-nervous

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1. YAY! Go Bernie Go!

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2. That IS The TRUTH! Bernie Gaining Steam ... It Ain't Over Yet!

Here We Go...

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3. K&R

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4. Wisconsin is primed for Hillary to win

Scott Walker's test run system downing on Friday was a precursor event for what is to come on Tuesday. The voter suppression there will be very high, maybe not as bad as Arizona, but probably close. Suppressed turnout leads to wins for Clinton/Republicans.

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5. Wisconsin dems have an open primary, WI also has election day voter registration.

I don't think we're going to see anything near similar to AZ.

As it is, the voter ID will likely mostly hurt non-drivers. Because WI has generally horrible public mass transit which relies on buses and service is limited to inside cities, most people in WI have drivers licenses and most families have at least one car.

Obviously that isn't everyone. But there has been a lot of community effort to deal with voter registration.

The impact of the ID laws here are mostly going to be on people who live for one reason or another on the margins without institutional assistance. Voter registration efforts reaching out to people living in institutions has had some measure of success.

The suppression that will happen here is likely to be of the more traditional type... such as the under assignment of voting stations in impoverished wards that create very long lines, making it hard for people who work multiple jobs and multiple shifts to participate in person.

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6. Thanks. I am encouraged by the open primary

Independents will always swing it for Bernie.

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7. link to a Nation article - potential 300,000 could be blocked

http://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-could-block-300000-registered-voters-from-the-polls/

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8. That would be 1/4 of dem primary voters in 2008. 300k suppressed in this primary ain't gonna happen

I think that number comes from one of the lawsuits about the voter ID law and isn't about primary elections (known here as partisan elections).

The numbers in the lawsuits were pushed up as high as possible to make the issue of harm from the ID law as large as possible.

As a test of reality...In Feb we had run-off elections for state supreme court and county officers, there really weren't significant problems reported. Turnout for those elections is smaller than primaries and usually involves more committed voters, so there -should- have been fewer problems. But things went surprisingly smoothly, unexpectedly smoothly according to election officials.