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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders has 1 million donors [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)28. I've seen that before. That's a map of "estimated" donors based on a number of assumptions....
...and extrapolations made by the NY Times. Those are not documented numbers as reported to the FEC.
From the campaign's FEC financial filings through June 30, there were only 28,066 unique donors identified who made a total of 277,693 donations. These donors made an average of 9.9 donations each for an average aggregate of $299.
The raw data can be found here:
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00696948/?cycle=2020
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Just when you thought people couldn't possibly spin one of our candidates...
HerbChestnut
Sep 2019
#6
It's a swing and a miss... it's hard to try and spin one million unique individual donors as bad.
bluewater
Sep 2019
#10
Why? What good purpose would that serve? Why would this time be different from the last?
NurseJackie
Sep 2019
#68
Through June 30 (2Q19) he listed only 28,000 donors. Who are all of these other?
George II
Sep 2019
#23
Candidates had to have at least 60,000 individual donors to qualify for the June debate.
bluewater
Sep 2019
#25
I've seen that before. That's a map of "estimated" donors based on a number of assumptions....
George II
Sep 2019
#28
60,000 unique donors needed for first debate in June, 130,000 needed for the September Debate
bluewater
Sep 2019
#31
Not at all, but apparently you're accusing me of accusing the DNC of flim flamming us.
George II
Sep 2019
#42
Not at all. Just wondering why you kept repeating 28,000 when the DNC certified much more than that.
bluewater
Sep 2019
#49
That's all he's reported to the FEC, Herb. He has a huge amount designated as "unitemized"....
George II
Sep 2019
#36
Are you saying the DNC didn't have a way to check the number of unique donors for the debates?
bluewater
Sep 2019
#38
I don't know what he gave to the DNC, but it's a matter of public record what he gave to the FEC.
George II
Sep 2019
#43
I am sure it is. As I am sure everyone had 60,000 unique donors for the June debate, minimum.
bluewater
Sep 2019
#44
Why do you keep questioning my trust in the DNC? Twice now that you've made a comment like that.
George II
Sep 2019
#45
Just asking if you believe the DNC when they certified 60,000 unique donors for the June debate.
bluewater
Sep 2019
#48
Too bad he has a hard ceiling of below 25% of actual Democratic *VOTERS*
scheming daemons
Sep 2019
#65