Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has raised $5.2 million in campaign contributions since the polls closed in New Hampshire on Tuesday, according to BuzzFeed Politics.
The average contribution was $34, campaign aides told BuzzFeed. They also said BernieSanders.com topped out at “51,000 concurrent visitors at one point.”
The campaign started fundraising off Sanders’ then-projected victory on Tuesday night.
Here’s what his campaign homepage looked like:
https://t.co/a5CzV9Qyge at the moment pic.twitter.com/skGNh4d13R
— E McMorris-Santoro (@EvanMcSan) February 10, 2016
The huge haul was motivated by Sanders own call during his televised victory speech.
“I’m going to hold a fundraiser right here, right now, across America,” he said. “My request is please go to Berniesanders.com and contribute.”
Love him or hate him, the guy has a following, and it’s not just hipster douche bros in their twenties arguing on Facebook.
Open Secrets dot org: Obama and Romney spent over $1.2 Billion in 2012- not counting outside money from PACS and the DNC and RNC. All together it was over $2.5 Billion
$1.2B > $5.2M
funny aside: if you made a dollar a second, you would become a millionaire in 12 days.
At that same rate, it would take you over 32 years to become a billionaire.
(don’t tell Bernie- we’ll never hear the end of it…)
But mostly.
Go for it TPM…keep pumping up the new McGovern
Not in my county. It’s mostly the politically involved, including a former mayor who abandoned her Republican affiliation of 45 years and registered as a Democrat specifically to vote for Bernie in the primaries, an Ivy League graduate as smart as Christopher Hitchens ever was, a former city council member, a well-traveled and accomplished woman in her seventies, the owners of a successful cafe, and others of similar stature. Plus some very savvy young members of the community who are from far hipster and quite dedicated to the issue of equality for all.