2016 Postmortem

LWolf

(46,179 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 02:49 PM Jul 2015

Obama's Donors Flocking To Sanders, Romney's Going To Rubio

Bernie Sanders is drawing more of Barack Obama's 2012 campaign donors than Hillary Clinton.

And Marco Rubio is scoring the biggest share of Mitt Romney's contributors thus far.

These are the findings of Crowdpac, a San Francisco-based political data-mining firm which analyzed the July presidential campaign finance reports.

The Vermont senator has already received contributions from 24,582 of Obama's donors; whereas Clinton has only tapped just over 9,000 of them. Martin O'Malley, the former Maryland governor, has grabbed 383 Obama donors.

That means Sanders has nabbed 72 percent of the 34,340 Obama donors who have given to a candidate in 2016, according to Crowdpac.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2015/07/17/obamas-donors-flocking-to-sanders-romneys-going-to-rubio

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Obama's Donors Flocking To Sanders, Romney's Going To Rubio (Original Post) LWolf Jul 2015 OP

Hillary has had 250,000+ individual donors. Their data only seems to cover a fraction of that. nt onehandle Jul 2015 #1

How about that! arcane1 Jul 2015 #2

Bernie will be getting support from a very large chunk of Progressive Democrats. Indepatriot Jul 2015 #3

I think by sheer numbers, Bernie would have to, but WHICH donors? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #4

Good question. LWolf Jul 2015 #5

K&R CharlotteVale Jul 2015 #6

And the votes will too BrotherIvan Jul 2015 #7

Not surprising, but those must be the thousands of small donors Cheese Sandwich Jul 2015 #8

You mean the ones who learned artislife Jul 2015 #9

Yep. LWolf Jul 2015 #10

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

1. Hillary has had 250,000+ individual donors. Their data only seems to cover a fraction of that. nt

Reply to LWolf (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 02:54 PM

Jul 2015

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

2. How about that!

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Fri Jul 17, 2015, 03:08 PM

Jul 2015

Indepatriot

(1,253 posts)

3. Bernie will be getting support from a very large chunk of Progressive Democrats.

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Fri Jul 17, 2015, 03:28 PM

Jul 2015

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

4. I think by sheer numbers, Bernie would have to, but WHICH donors?

Reply to LWolf (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 03:52 PM

Jul 2015

I'm sure a lot of us low to no income types are flocking to Bernie, but what about the big money donors? Are they coming along as well, or are they dropping it on Hillary?

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

5. Good question.

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 04:08 PM

Jul 2015

If so, I guess there are a hell of a lot more of us low to no income types.

CharlotteVale

(2,717 posts)

6. K&R

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Fri Jul 17, 2015, 04:08 PM

Jul 2015

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

7. And the votes will too

Reply to LWolf (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 07:56 PM

Jul 2015

Take it to the bank. Once people see that he can win in early primary states, things will shift just like they did for Obama.

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)

8. Not surprising, but those must be the thousands of small donors

Reply to LWolf (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:05 AM

Jul 2015

The big money has got to be going to Hillary.

Still, it's a cool statistic.

artislife

(9,497 posts)

9. You mean the ones who learned

Reply to LWolf (Original post)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 12:08 AM

Jul 2015

how to take a grassroots organization for a candidate who looked as though he was the underdog and win the nomination. And then the General.

Twice.

Oh....

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

10. Yep.

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Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:58 AM

Jul 2015

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