As of early April, his tens of thousands of networked volunteers had made 47 million phone calls

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-virtual-ground-game-221748#ixzz45YCpfMAt

Bernie Sanders’ campaign has been marked by the huge crowds turning out to his rallies, packing arenas with 20,000 people or more. But the key to his staying power in the 2016 race lies in more modest venues — living rooms, libraries and Internet chat apps — where his campaign turns the senator's online fans into a volunteer army that surpasses anything seen in presidential politics.

Barack Obama's successful campaigns in 2008 and 2012, for all their digital accomplishments, never fully achieved their ambition of converting online support into a volunteer force that could do the grunt work of cold-calling voters or knocking on doors.

But Sanders’ team has — honing a strategy of turning "slacktivists" who don't normally engage in grass-roots politics into an advance team capable of doing everything from managing phone banks to planning high-level campaign events. As of early April, his tens of thousands of networked volunteers had made 47 million phone calls, putting them on track to surpass the calls made by Obama’s operation during the entire 2012 election cycle.

Sanders’ organizational success — fueled by free or low-cost, off-the-shelf apps like Hustle and Slack — is the lesser-known counterpart to his campaign’s prowess in raking in campaign cash from hordes of shallow-pocketed donors online. Experts in the evolution of technology in political campaigns say these innovations have helped Sanders put up a far more vigorous than expected challenge to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, including his 13-point win in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary and his 12-point victory Saturday in Wyoming.

"Sanders' team is investing a lot of time and energy into thinking how to do things differently, how to build a distributed operation that translates into dollars and volunteers," said Daniel Kreiss, a former political organizer who wrote the book “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama.”

Very great read on the grassroots power of Sanders' insurgent campaign

[onehandle]

1. If Bernie loses the nomination, will they put equal effort into winning Congress?

Of which he is a part of?

[metroins]

2. And Hillary is still ahead

In votes by 2 million and delegates.

She has the better campaign.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

3. Why did you have to make this about Hillary....

This OP didn't have anything to do with her.

[rhett o rick]

5. Let's all ignore these posts. They only aim to distract because they don't have a movement and

don't have any issues to discuss. Seriously, let's ignore them.

[rhett o rick]

4. This is a movement to be reconded with. The other side do not understand

our enthusiasm. They are content to lay back and accept the status quo. We realize the desperate need for change. We cannot live with 4 more years of the Rich Fat Cats looting our economy. Clinton says a rising tide (economy) raises all boats, but she mean yachts. The economy has been booming for the Clinton Family and the Fat Cats while the lower 99% has been struggling.

The Clinton supporters cant argue with the fact that the Fat Cats have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years while the middle class and working class have lost ground. So why would they side with the Fat Cats. They really dont think Clinton will turn her back on those that have given her millions and help the 99%. She doesn't even pretend she is going to help those struggling.