Sanders has twice as many female donors as Hillary...

[Fawke Em]

60% of Clinton's small donors are women, she made a point of stating that fact during the debate last night with a response of thunderous applause.

Unfortunately, it's a moot point.

Compared to Sanders she still has a significantly lower net number of women donating to her campaign.

So far she has collected 13 million dollars in small (under 200$) donations. Let's assume that all donations are equal, that would mean that 7,800,000$ came from women.

Sanders has raised 41 million in small donations. Let's assume that Clinton's donors and Sander's donors contribute the same amount per person. In order for Clinton to have more women donors than Sanders less than 18.7% (7.8/42 * 100) of his donors would have to be women.

In fact, 40% of Sander's donors are female. Thus, Sanders has over twice as many female donors than Clinton.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/3sx5jr/sanders_has_twice_as_many_female_donors_than/

Can anyone here check the math on this one. It looks accurate to me, but I admit that math isn't my favorite subject, however I do enjoy polling stats.

If so - maybe the media needs to become aware of this fact.

On Edit: My AP Stats whiz kid son just came and checked it and said if what the poster said is accurate, then the math is accurate: Sanders has more female donors than Clinton.

[merrily]

1. Interesting, but not surprising, if you think about it.

[Fawke Em]

2. Not at all.

Most of Hill's money doesn't even come from people, period.

[billhicks76]

19. But Hillary Bought More Twitter Followers

To me it's a disgrace that people support her.

[nolabels]

23. So then its true then.........

Most billionaires and hedge fund managers are actually space aliens

[Fawke Em]

27. LOL.

Possibly... but I was referring to the corporate donations to her SuperPACs.

[dreamnightwind]

3. Wow, if that is true it deserves a lot of national attention

Thanks for the OP, I will watch the thread to see if this checks out.

[rhett o rick]

10. Well you ain't going to get any help from the corp-media that supports the corp-candidate. nm

[LovingA2andMI]

4. Women....

In General, Like Them Some Bernie. He stand in solidarity on issues Women care about.

[zentrum]

5. Myself and all the women

….in my family give to Bernie. Not that that makes your point, but I meet so many women who do give to Bernie. In fact, almost everyone I've met in the street or at a table staffed for Bernie is a woman. Will follow this thread.

[Greybnk48]

6. I always have donated to campaigns,

but for Bernie I have a monthly automatic recurring donation for the first time in my life. Actually, this is the first time I have not felt a need to keep tight control on my donations since with Bernie I KNOW I won't regret it.

[zentrum]

7. Same here.

Bought his swag too. But I'm careful to never give to the DNC or the DCCC anymore. I give to only individuals.

[Melissa G]

9. That is true for me as well!

Another woman donating regularly to Bernie and planning on going the distance of this campaign with him!

[Hepburn]

30. Female and ditto here.

Normally, I would just give a donation when I thought about it and I always wanted to make sure that the candidate was still right on the money on the issues that I care about.

This time, an automatic monthly Bernie donation! I know he will do the right thing!

[lostnfound]

31. Count me in! I also am doing an automatic monthly.

There is no medicine better for what ails us, at the present time.

[senz]

8. Makes me proud of my fellow women.

[Doctor_J]

11. oops. another bogus non stat from Mrs Clinton

I'm shocked

[jhart3333]

12. Back of the envelope math but it looks good from here.

If you want to know what percentage 7.8m is of 41m you divide 7.8 by 41 and then multiply by 100. Let's try it with some easy numbers:

3 / 10 = .3

.3 x 100 = 30(%)

This is what they did sort of. They used 42 instead(Maybe it's 41,900,000 and they rounded up? I don't know.) which might be confusing you. Lets use 41m instead:

7.8 / 41 = 0.190

0.190 x 100 = 19(%)

In order for all of this to work we have to assume that the amounts given by small donors are the same on average for Bernie and Hillary. This seems like a reasonable assumption for back of the envelope calculations. So we're saying that in order for Bernie to have the same number of women donors as Hillary, his percentage of women donors would have to be 19%. But it's not. It's more than double that: 40%. So Bernie has twice as many women donors as Hillary.

[Fawke Em]

13. My son explained it the same way.

I think this is accurate.

Now - how do we show the media so they'll understand it?

I'm a former reporter - most of us like composition (shocking, I know! LOL) rather than math.

But, I get it. It shouldn't be that difficult to understand.

[jhart3333]

16. I saw that after I was done. Posted anyway.

That quote comes to mind:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair

Present company excepted.

[Thespian2]

22. The media is all in for the 1%er...

Corporations own the media...the 1%er is their candidate...the surprise is that so many people know who Bernie is and donate to him...

[Major Hogwash]

14. Quelle surprise, she lied . . . 90% of her contributions came from corporations.

She can't possibly know which small donors are women, unless she is looking at personal checks!!
So, this is the second biggest lie she has told so far.
Well, maybe the third biggest, there are so many to try and keep track of!!!

[Jim Lane]

26. Corporations can't donate to her campaign

What's usually listed as "American Express" or the like means employees of American Express.

[DiehardLiberal]

15. Thank you for posting! I suspected as much but had no idea how to research it. I hope he picks up

the ball on this meme.

[SoapBox]

17. And I absolutely agree with this Tweet...

"Pundits, naysayers & cronies have no idea of the strength and diversity of the #grassroots support behind #Bernie2016. #BernieTsunami"

This goes with how I've been feeling for weeks, that the true support for Bernie is very much underestimated.

[AgingAmerican]

20. There ya had to go and spoil all the fun!

[MrMickeysMom]

21. That does not surprise me, that verifies the issues... ALL the issues....

What female, or head of household would not benefit from a Bernie Sanders economic plan with campaign finance reform in the wings of an honest path to equal playing field, both in the labor market, but future sustainable industries?

The machinations over what his policy might mean are going on, but anyone paying attention to the real issues sees how this helps the family, the fair chance for working men AND WOMEN!

[progree]

24. Yeah, but Bernie's female donors all suffer from Stockholm Syndrome and yearn for patriarchy

and all that and so forth and so on. Right?

[BeanMusical]

25. But-but-but I thought that he was sexist?

[Fawke Em]

28. Nigel Tufnel...

[BeanMusical]

29. Lol!