Bernie Sanders’s Campaign to Announce It Raised $20 Million in Last Month
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[url]http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/31/bernie-sanderss-campaign-says-it-raised-20-million-in-last-month/[/url]
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To put that January fund-raising figure for the Sanders campaign in perspective, Hillary Clinton’s campaign said it raised $37 million for the last three months of 2015.
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Wow. If Sanders wins Iowa, expect that number to go through the roof. We could raise 60-70 million in Q1 of 2016, which would be [I]fucking massive[/I].
[QUOTE=Blackavar;49644327]Wow. If Sanders wins Iowa, expect that number to go through the roof. We could raise 60-70 million in Q1 of 2016, which would be [I]fucking massive[/I].[/QUOTE]
for clinton to win, it would just be another notch on her belt, for sanders though it will be the proof that his campaign can be legitimate
Campaigns really need to be capped off at around ten million USD. Anything more then that is so fucking why.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49644403]Campaigns really need to be capped off at around ten million USD. Anything more then that is so fucking why.[/QUOTE]
ads are very, very expensive
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49644403]Campaigns really need to be capped off at around ten million USD. Anything more then that is so fucking why.[/QUOTE]
that's the amount the average judge spends on getting elected.
so, a pittance compared to real elections
Ads can also be made by Super PACs which are "unaffiliated" with campaigns.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49644403]Campaigns really need to be capped off at around ten million USD. Anything more then that is so fucking why.[/QUOTE]
That's not what we need. What we need to do is cap the amount individuals can contribute (the number of times; there are already limits on the amounts), with special attention paid against the rich. Our Supreme Court is dogshit and needs to be gone after for a lot of things, but one of the stupidest things they ever did that they deserved to be punished for was [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/supreme-court-ruling-on-campaign-contributions.html?_r=0]their decision back in 2014 to strike down limits on how much any individual could give[/url]. They already did that with corporations and unions of course, something else which needs to be fixed.
You can't have a just democracy when you do this kind of shit; you're saying then that some people's views on what candidate to support are more valid than everybody else's for no other reason than they have more money to throw around than the rest of us do. That's bad, for us and for our country. It shifts power away from us in the majority over to a very small minority, because at the end of the day, money is of course the power that drives politics (American politics, especially).
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More [url=http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml]here[/url] about how this works. There's a lot of ways around limits that need to be tackled too.
Speaking of ads... Has there been an official Bernie Sanders video ad yet?
[QUOTE=ThePanther;49648319]Speaking of ads... Has there been an official Bernie Sanders video ad yet?[/QUOTE]
I saw this the other day.
[video=youtube;qyee_sxJpXc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyee_sxJpXc[/video]
I also highly recommend this video as well.
[video=youtube;ewwt18RRXnM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewwt18RRXnM[/video]
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