Hillary Clinton's Campaign Blew Past Their Fundraising Goal For 2015

[brooklynite]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Jan 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton raised $55 million in the last three months of 2015, her campaign said on Friday.

The latest haul for Clinton, 68, brings her 2015 fundraising total to $112 million, and gives her one of the best-funded campaign treasuries in the race for the November 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

"At the beginning of this campaign, Hillary Clinton set a goal of $100 million in primary contributions for 2015 and blew past that goal, raising more than $112 million in primary money for the year," her campaign said in a statement.

It said she had raised $37 million for the primary campaign, the most for any non-incumbent in a non-election year, and $18 million for the Democratic Party in the fourth quarter.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-raises-55-million-in-fourth-quarter_5686c98ae4b06fa688827756

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Gee, imagine if there was "enthusiasm" for her...

[Scootaloo]

1. Money still doesn't equal votes.

I know that that's a frustrating reality that persons of your means have been fighting against for many a decade Brooklynite, but it remains true.

[brooklynite]

2. Right...because I'm wealthy so of course I MUST be opposed to Campaign Finance Reform

Any other lazy stereotypes?

[Scootaloo]

3. Where did I say that?

Campaign finance? That just buys advertisng.

I'm saying you flat-out want your money to translate directly into votes. You're rich, so you count more. Everything you post here points towards this.

[ronnykmarshall]

4. You're also a corporation lap dog and a war monger

and since I work of a bank I'm an evil bankster sucking the life blood from The People.

Cheers my fellow evil pig!!!

[George II]

8. That's the way some around here feel. Two of my siblings were bank tellers at a local branch.....

....and my father and I worked in IT (me only 2 years) for a bank, and a Sanders follower here on DU put us all down and called us all "banksters"!

[ronnykmarshall]

11. Isn't that pathetic?

These idiots don't have a CLUE that bank employees are majority middle class! I had some asshole tell me that I should quit my job and work for a non profit or something and I am part of "the problem".

I didn't tell him the REAL truth about how all of us that work for banks get to just grab hand fulls of cash everyday and instruct our limo drivers (who we beat daily) run old people off the road while smoking cigars and drinking champagne.

Shhhh. Don't tell.

[ChiTownDenny]

14. And here I thought

all you guys snorted coke in the back of your limos. Learn something new everyday.

[ronnykmarshall]

22. Only on friday

[1StrongBlackMan]

26. I would think the majority of bank employees are less than middle class ...

aren't the majority of a banks workforce Tellers and administrative support?

But that said ... I have written many a time that in order for some segments of DU to make sense, one must ignore what we experience in real life ... and that segment of DU's constant refrain that employment choice (or, non-choice) equals a political statement, is a prime example, especially when they lambast, clear subject matter experts because the accrued their expertise from working at, and excelling, in the banking work.

[ronnykmarshall]

27. You are correct sir!

I work in a service center where we process the checks and transactions and admin support and IT.

When I was a kid I didn't sit and look at my mom's checkbook and dream of the day I would process those checks. It's something I basically fell into when I was 21. I started out working the grave yard shift distributing reports and sorting paid checks. I learned a lot of skills that enabled me to move to San Francisco where I lived paycheck to paycheck and loved every minute of it. I've busted my ass off and at 54 I think I'm doing pretty damn well for the going on 27 years at my bank.

[1StrongBlackMan]

28. And I suspect that ...

never in your wildest imagination that someone call your decision to work for a bank, to be held as a political statement!

[ronnykmarshall]

30. That's for sure

[JonLeibowitz]

5. There are some clear inaccuracies in this article

Clinton has prided herself on raising funds from women and donors of small amounts. In the most recent quarter, 94 percent of the money raised was in donations of $100 or less, her campaign said.

No way. She would need 517,000 donors (edit: donations, not donors) who each contributed $100 for this to be possible. Or more donors who each contributed less.



edit:
Conflicting source revealing what we all know the correct numbers to be: https://twitter.com/AlbaMonica/status/682990425788039168

94% of Q4 donations to HFA were in increments of $100 or less

[George II]

9. Not true. You're making the same mistake that Sanders did at the first debate. There is a big....

....difference between "DONORS" and "DONATIONS".

Until caught misrepresenting the statistic, Sanders was running around the country claiming he had 1.25M "donors", then had to eat his words and backtrack to only 750,000 "donors" who gave his campaign 1.25M 'donations".

[JonLeibowitz]

10. No, I have made no mistake.

94 percent of the money raised was in donations of $100 or less

is very different from

94% of Q4 donations to HFA were in increments of $100 or less

The key is in understanding what "94% of the money raised" means. I suggest you try to understand this difference.

Hint: $51.7MM

[George II]

17. I fully understand the difference.

Here is what you said:

"She would need 517,000 donors who each contributed $100 for this to be possible. Or more donors who each contributed less."

[JonLeibowitz]

18. Fine. My original point stands.

The article is inconsistent with what HFA is claiming.

[wildbilln864]

6. well of course she did!

Did anyone actually expect less?!

[elleng]

7. Equally or more interesting is how she spends it,

reflecting on her judgment (as well as values.)

[TekGryphon]

12. The big news here is the $18 million for down-ticket Democrats

The Hillary team and her supporters are committed to the progressive movement as a whole, which extends far beyond her.

While I sit here on DU watching Bernie supports spend all day and night trying to turn people against the Democratic Party and convince them to sit out the election and let conservatives win - Hillary's team is fighting for the cause.

[George II]

16. I was about to point that out - I wonder how much Sanders has raised for State Democratic Parties?

I have a guess.

[roody]

33. You are not watching him.

He has done said nothing about those things.

[TekGryphon]

36. "Bernie's supporters" != Bernie

I'm well aware Bernie has tried, from Day 1 of his campaign, to keep his supporters focused on issues and not identity politics.

I don't blame him for the "burn the house down" fanaticism of his followers. I saw the same shit with Ron Paul supporters in 2008.

[BlueMTexpat]

35. That is exactly what I like most

about this report.

Thanks for emphasizing that point!

[Dawson Leery]

38. The Bernie Campaign is about getting Bernie elected.

The Hillary campaign is about getting Democrats elected at all levels.

[roody]

39. Where I live, Bernie supporters

are phone banking and canvassing on order to get people TO participate.

[MattSh]

13. Well, duh!

She and her corporate friends were expecting a cakewalk to the nomination. Then Bernie happened.

So her corporate friends had to pony up more ca$h!

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Yeah that's it.

[Laser102]

37. Guess my small donations have made me a corporate friend. Who knew?

[Sunlei]

15. Come on Mrs. Clinton, please be my "Dream Team" with Senator Sanders

Winner

[brooklynite]

19. Because Vermont is a battleground State?

Neither Sanders nor Warren will be on the ticket.

[Sunlei]

20. They're all battleground states. I want Mrs. Clinton & Sen. Sanders to run as President & VP

Because that Team will win it all easy

[brooklynite]

21. Two Eastern liberals? Not a chance...

...and do you want Sanders to have to gove in to Clinton's "corrupt", "neo-con", "Wall Street" agenda?

[Sunlei]

24. I don't think she's "corrupt neo-con".Her experiences with wall street are a benefit for Americans.

[elmac]

34. Generally its best to pick a younger VP

someone who will be running for president in 8 years if the dems make it 2 terms. Both will be pushing 80 by then. Julian Castro would be a good pick.

[certainot]

25. dems ignore about $4bil FREE pro republican advertising every year

while hillary and bernie supporters battle and celebrate their fundraising records and complain about hundreds of millions in corporate money, 1200 rw talk radio stations blast the country with about 4BIL $ worth of pro 1% and pro wall street hate and swiftboating and bullshit every year.

1200 stations x 15 hrs/day x 5 days/wk x 52 weeks x $1000/hr = way too fucking much think tank- coordinated pro-republican advertising that is basically invisible and ignored by liberals because it gives them a headache to listen to it.

all that advertising is basically free and at least 1/4 of it is endorsed by these 90 major universities

if dems started protesting those universities for helping republicans sell their lies and hate it would only take a few successes to shame other schools into doing the same. advertisers would flee all rw talk stations, the monopoly would fall apart, and and the biggest advantage the republicans have would be gone in time for the elections.

and bernie or hillary would have supermajorities

[bowens43]

29. so she will spend millions to put trump in the oval office....good move hill

[ronnykmarshall]

32. Keep telling yourself that honey.

[Gothmog]

31. I admit that I fell for the appeal and was worried about sanders out fundraising the Clinton campagi

I gave money yesterday to the Clinton campaign and I feel good about this