Bernie already raised over $42 million in February

[Dr. Arch]

I've already held off on any more donations until he can prove to me the campaign he's running can still be competitive. I will restart donating if he wins CO, OK, MN, MA, and VT tomorrow while maintaining a close margin in TX.

[Adam Griffin]

I've been keeping tabs on this image as it refreshes - he's raised $200,000 in the past 30 minutes.

[Lyin' Steve]

Can you imagine how angry you, as a parent, would be if some televangelist was preying on teenagers and college students around the country to the tune of $40,000,000 a month?  And you were sending your child money in college to pay for food and school supplies and he was turning around and sending it to the televangelist, and the televangelist kept asking for more and more and more in increasingly large amounts?

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I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/701505880458719234
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/701506056548196356

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Someone is getting rich off of all of this...

According to OpenSecrets, they apparently ran ads for the "Committee for Justice and Fairness" during the 2013-2014 cycle.

[Xing]

ITT: People acting like donating to Bernie Sanders, whose message clearly resonates with millions, is a waste, while implying that the billions of dollars given to other campaigns over the past few years was money well-spent, and couldn't have been donated to medical research instead.

[Famous Mortimer]

Can you imagine how angry you, as a parent, would be if some televangelist was preying on teenagers and college students around the country to the tune of $40,000,000 a month?  And you were sending your child money in college to pay for food and school supplies and he was turning around and sending it to the televangelist, and the televangelist kept asking for more and more and more in increasingly large amounts?

What is your position exactly? That only rich people should donate to candidates?

[Asian Nazi]

ITT: People acting like donating to Bernie Sanders, whose message clearly resonates with millions, is a waste, while implying that the billions of dollars given to other campaigns over the past few years was money well-spent, and couldn't have been donated to medical research instead.

The difference is that the Sanders scampaign has no actual chance of winning

[Adam Griffin]

I somehow highly doubt that anywhere near a respectable sum of the money being donated is coming from college students or genuinely poor people.

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Now over $42 million. I think it was $36 million at the beginning of the day, so $6 million just today.

[Vega]

I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

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I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

It's a shame about Invisible Obama. His hatred for Sanders has grown so much that he's now willing to believe outright conspiracy theories about Sanders.

[swf541]

Hopefully when he drops out he gives the rest to other important races, is that allowed?

[IceSpear]

I feel bad, since the vast majority of those people probably don't follow politics closely enough to realize he's doomed. Or at least go in depth with electoral analysis anyway.

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I feel bad, since the vast majority of those people probably don't follow politics closely enough to realize he's doomed.

Clearly those who vote on the issues don't follow politics closely unlike those enlightened people who don't vote on the issues.

[Asian Nazi]

I feel bad, since the vast majority of those people probably don't follow politics closely enough to realize he's doomed. Or at least go in depth with electoral analysis anyway.

The Sanders scampaign preys on low information voters for this very reason.

[IceSpear]

I feel bad, since the vast majority of those people probably don't follow politics closely enough to realize he's doomed.

Clearly those who vote on the issues don't follow politics closely unlike those enlightened people who don't vote on the issues.

Haven't you even admitted that he's essentially doomed? What value is there in donating money to a campaign that can't win? It's about as useful as throwing it down a sinkhole, regardless of how much you like that candidate. But I guess throwing money down a sinkhole is politics in a nutshell these days. Just look at Jeb Bush. They probably could've cured cancer with that $200 million.

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I feel bad, since the vast majority of those people probably don't follow politics closely enough to realize he's doomed.

Clearly those who vote on the issues don't follow politics closely unlike those enlightened people who don't vote on the issues.

Haven't you even admitted that he's essentially doomed? What value is there in donating money to a campaign that can't win? It's about as useful as throwing it down a sinkhole, regardless of how much you like that candidate. But I guess throwing money down a sinkhole is politics in a nutshell these days. Just look at Jeb Bush. They probably could've cured cancer with that $200 million.

He's still got some chance, and he's a lot better than Hillary or Trump.

LOL, $200 million isn't even the amount spent on cancer  per day. It's over $100 billion a year.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/05/05/global-cancer-spending-reaches-100b

[DrScholl]

I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

Of course not directly, but there are ways to do it indirectly. It's the cynic in me, but someone with such a low net worth raising huge amounts of money has to be tempted to skim a little.

I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

It's a shame about Invisible Obama. His hatred for Sanders has grown so much that he's now willing to believe outright conspiracy theories about Sanders.

You were calling him racist and a white supremacist just the other day, which made no sense. I'm not talking conspiracy, I'm just stating an opinion about how I wouldn't be surprised if some of that money got redirected. His wife and stepdaughter made some good money off of some of his House campaigns. Holier than thou types often slip the most.

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I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

Of course not directly, but there are ways to do it indirectly. It's the cynic in me, but someone with such a low net worth raising huge amounts of money has to be tempted to skim a little.

I'll bet anything that some of it ends up in his pocket. Of course he can't get all of it, but he'll find a way to get some of it.

I don't think it would be legal to funnel it or directly deposit it.

It's a shame about Invisible Obama. His hatred for Sanders has grown so much that he's now willing to believe outright conspiracy theories about Sanders.

You were calling him racist and a white supremacist just the other day, which made no sense. I'm not talking conspiracy, I'm just stating an opinion about how I wouldn't be surprised if some of that money got redirected. His wife and stepdaughter made some good money off of some of his House campaigns. Holier than thou types often slip the most.

I doubt all the money they ever made from his campaigns adds up to one Hillary speech.

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Yes, I will admit I was saying that. I was trolling, I'll admit that. And you have some valid points. But I feel like if he was trying anything like that, it would have been found out already. Also, his net worth is somewhere between $250,000 and $750,000. I wouldn't call that 'low'.

[DrScholl]

I doubt all the money they ever made from his campaigns adds up to one Hillary speech.

I'm not talking about Clinton, I'm talking about Sanders. Clinton getting paid for speeches is quite different than family members getting paid from working on a campaign.

[Ebsy]

From what I have seen browsing through /r/sandersforpresident among confirmed supporters that are posting records of their donations, donating to Sanders has become borderline addictive.

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I doubt all the money they ever made from his campaigns adds up to one Hillary speech.

I'm not talking about Clinton, I'm talking about Sanders. Clinton getting paid for speeches is quite different than family members getting paid from working on a campaign.

They were paid pretty modest amounts for their work. Do you think that labor should be free?

[NeverAgain]

I doubt all the money they ever made from his campaigns adds up to one Hillary speech.

I'm not talking about Clinton, I'm talking about Sanders. Clinton getting paid for speeches is quite different than family members getting paid from working on a campaign.

This is the thing you attack Sanders on... This? First of all this was proven to be false (at least the numbers were mostly skewed by partisan politicians)... Secondly it's not a very good attack. I've been warming up to Hillary, but you people really just shove any hope of uniting the Democratic party down the toilet.

[Chaddyr23]

I've already held off on any more donations until he can prove to me the campaign he's running can still be competitive. I will restart donating if he wins CO, OK, MN, MA, and VT tomorrow while maintaining a close margin in TX.

Same here. I have little confidence, my anecdotal evidence via personal experience. I have simply encountered too many people who wants Sanders but do not plan to vote for him in the primary.  They had fanciful excuses that they didnt know about the registration deadline or that the superdelegates would hand it to Hillary...