Not breaking news per se, and the traditional media always gets the 411 late but, hey, at least it's there: Bernie is dominating small donor support, which is better for politics and the country.
The NYT stumbles on it (LOL):
The success of the Boston area outfit, a nonprofit organization called ActBlue, can be seen most starkly in the latest fund-raising report filed by Mr. Sanders, its most prominent political client at the moment. A whopping 74 percent of the $26 million that Mr. Sanders raised came through ActBlue, an online platform that lets people donate a few dollars at a time to Democrats — and Democrats only — with just a few clicks. Eighty-eight percent of contributions to Mr. Sanders came from donations of $200 or less.
And:
The speed and sophistication of the 11-year-old operation have given Mr. Sanders a huge edge in the race to gather support from smaller donors, an important test of how well candidates connect with grass-roots voters.
Mr. Sanders’s reliance on checks from small donors is all the more unusual in an election where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy families have provided so much of the cash for the campaign, mostly backing Republicans and the “super PACs” behind them. Mr. Sanders is one of the only candidates running for president without a super PAC in his corner.
It is a contrast relished by Mr. Sanders, who has called for a “moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders.”
And:
The differing approaches between Mr. Sanders and Mr. Carson reflect a wider divide between the two parties. The Democrats, largely through ActBlue and the digital efforts of individual campaigns, have gained a cultural and technological edge in developing a low-cost, quick and seamless online operation — an advantage Republicans admit they largely have been unable to match.
The status quo candidate?:
Mrs. Clinton hopes to replicate that model and is working with a start-up called The Groundwork, funded by Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive, but she has fallen well behind Mr. Sanders in attracting small-dollar donors. Only about 20 percent of the $77 million she raised through Sept. 30 came from people giving $200 or less. Her campaign has cited administrative issues and delays as one reason she has been less successful than Mr. Sanders in this area.
Yeah, "administrative" issues as in--fuck, we have to
go get money from Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the Catfood Commission (which wants to cut Social Security)...cuz, wink, wink, we're for "getting stuff done" with the Republicans and Erskine...
And for Democrats, it works:
It was remarkably easy,” said Isabelle Miller, 25, a health care worker in Portland, Ore., who said she has now given repeat donations of around $20 or $30 to Mr. Sanders through ActBlue. Her first donation came soon after she watched a speech online that Mr. Sanders had given in Portland. “It was like an impulse purchase,” she said.
In the 2014 election cycle, the group — a registered political action committee — collected $326.4 million for more than 5,000 Democratic committees, including nearly all House and Senate candidates, and it is well ahead of that pace now. (The organization takes about a 4 percent cut on all donations, which covers credit card and processing fees. It relies on donations for the bulk of its funding, administrators say.) In all, it has raised more than $834 million since 2004.
Meaning, money would be there for the party to be successful if we didn't have such a spectacular failure running the DNC.
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