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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders’s Success in Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of ‘Super PACs’
Article is well worth reading in it's entirety IMO.Bernie Sanderss Success in Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of Super PACs
By ERIC LICHTBLAUAUG. 25, 2015
WASHINGTON Donna Mae Litowitz, a Miami Beach retiree, likes Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont so much that three months ago she sent his presidential campaign $10,000. His campaign sent back all but $2,700 because it was more than he was allowed to take under federal election law, but she wishes he had kept it all.
I like what Sanders stands for, and he says what needs to be said, said Ms. Litowitz, who gave money in 2008 to Senator Barack Obamas presidential campaign. And I dont like Hillary Clinton.
In an election dominated by million-dollar donations to super PACs, Ms. Litowitz qualifies in Mr. Sanderss insurgent campaign as a big donor. Unlike almost all of the other major Democratic and Republican candidates this year, Mr. Sanders has refused to accept support from super PACs, relying instead on supporters like Ms. Litowitz as well as tens of thousands of small donors giving as little as $5 or $10.
The average donation, according to campaign officials, is $31.30.
The result is a campaign built on populist issues like income inequality that appears to be drawing even more rank-and-file support than Mr. Obama did in 2008, when he used a network of smaller donors to win the White House...
Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/us/politics/bernie-sanders-success-in-attracting-small-donors-tests-importance-of-super-pacs.html
By ERIC LICHTBLAUAUG. 25, 2015
WASHINGTON Donna Mae Litowitz, a Miami Beach retiree, likes Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont so much that three months ago she sent his presidential campaign $10,000. His campaign sent back all but $2,700 because it was more than he was allowed to take under federal election law, but she wishes he had kept it all.
I like what Sanders stands for, and he says what needs to be said, said Ms. Litowitz, who gave money in 2008 to Senator Barack Obamas presidential campaign. And I dont like Hillary Clinton.
In an election dominated by million-dollar donations to super PACs, Ms. Litowitz qualifies in Mr. Sanderss insurgent campaign as a big donor. Unlike almost all of the other major Democratic and Republican candidates this year, Mr. Sanders has refused to accept support from super PACs, relying instead on supporters like Ms. Litowitz as well as tens of thousands of small donors giving as little as $5 or $10.
The average donation, according to campaign officials, is $31.30.
The result is a campaign built on populist issues like income inequality that appears to be drawing even more rank-and-file support than Mr. Obama did in 2008, when he used a network of smaller donors to win the White House...
Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/us/politics/bernie-sanders-success-in-attracting-small-donors-tests-importance-of-super-pacs.html
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Bernie Sanders’s Success in Attracting Small Donors Tests Importance of ‘Super PACs’ (Original Post)
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Uncle Joe
(58,481 posts)1. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, think.
TheProgressive
(1,656 posts)2. I sent another $25 today thru the USPS...
The Bernie Team sent me my "free bumper sticker"...
I sent $25 to say thanks for being a candidate I "want to vote for"...!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. Obama raised a lot of money in 2008, actually outraising McCain.
"The campaign avoided using public campaign funds, raising all of its money privately from individual donors. By the general election the campaign committee raised more than $650 million for itself"
(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,_2008 )