# Bernie Sanders’ campaign attracts multiple small online donations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/02/16/bernie-sanders-campaign-attracts-multiple-small-online-donations/
- Published: 2016-02-16T11:16:42+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Every US Presidential election campaign throws up a new example of successful 
digital fundraising. This time it is Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic
Party nomination that is achieving some impressive results, in particular in terms
of lower-value donations.**

Here are just a few of his digital fundraising achievements, as reported in [Sanders’ online fundraising gives Clinton a run for her money](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3443758/Sanders-online-fundraising-gives-Clinton-run-money.html):

 * **$6 million** in the 24 hours after his New Hampshire victory
 * **$3 million** after his narrow loss in Iowa
 * **$2 million** on on day (Sept. 30)
 * average donation is **$27 – one hundredth of the legal maximum of $2,700**, much
   lower than the average for Hilary Clinton’s campaign.
 * ActBlue handled **2,689 donations per minute** at one point. Its previous record
   was 781.
 * in 2015 Sanders received **72%** of his campaign donations from people who gave
   less than $200; Clinton received 16%.

 

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**More digital fundraising in US political campaigns:**

 * **[Barack Obama raises £7m in two weeks from donations of £3,000 or less](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/29/barack-obama-raises-7m-two-weeks-donations-3000-or-less/)(
   February 2008)
 * **[Hilary Clinton’s online fundraising website “faster than Obama’s”](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/04/14/hilary-clinton039s-online-fundraising-website-quotfaster-obama039squot/)**(
   April 2007)
 * **[Obama – world’s greatest fundraiser?](https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/11/03/obama-world039s-greatest-fundraiser/)**(
   November 2008)
 * **[Obama’s fundraising: amid the hype some serious analysis](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/09/11/obamas-fundraising-amid-hype-some-serious-analysis/)**(
   November 2009)
 * **[“Spam” for Bush fundraising online?](https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/09/22/quotspamquot-bush-fundraising-online/)**(
   September 1999)
 * **[Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nomination Campaigns](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/10/26/serious-money-fundraising-and-contributing-presidential-nomination-campaigns/)**(
   2007)

 

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