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I do not know any progressive that has a super PAC and takes $15 million from Wall Street. That’s just not progressive.
— Sen. Bernie Sanders, continuing to question Hillary Clinton’s progressive credentials, the Washington Post reports.
$3 million
Amount Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign raised in the 24 hours following his narrow loss in the Iowa caucuses, the Washington Post reports. Most interesting: 40% of those donors had not given to Sanders previously.
0.3%
Margin by which Hillary Clinton won the Iowa Caucuses over Se. Bernie Sanders, CNN reports.
$20 million
Amount Bernie Sanders’s campaign has raised over the last month, “an enormous haul that backs up the campaign’s assertion that it will have enough money for a long, hard-fought nominating fight against Hillary Clinton,” the New York Times reports. Politico: “More than 770,000 people gave to the Vermont senator’s bid in January, with online contributions averaging just $27, the campaign said. And Sanders has so far received more than 3.25 million contributions — more than any presidential campaign at this point in the cycle ever.”
40
Number of pints of a new ice cream flavor called “Bernie’s Yearning” that were made by Ben & jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen, according to his website, Bloomberg reports. The flavor is a pint of mint ice cream beneath a “thick disc of solid chocolate,” according to the packaging. “The chocolate disc represents the huge majority of economic gains that have gone to the top 1% since the end of the recession. Beneath it, the rest of us.” Cohen donated 25 pints to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sander’s campaign. The flavor is not an official Ben & Jerry’s product, Cohen says.
50%
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ lead over Hillary Clinton’s 41%, according to a new Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire. Also interesting: “Sanders fares better when it comes to the issue of trust. Asked which of the three major Democratic candidates is the most trustworthy, respondents chose Sanders by a 15-point margin: 51% to Clinton’s 36%. And while 26% of likely Democratic voters said they were bothered by Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state, 71% said that it is not of concern.”
52%
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders (37%) nationally,a new Monmouth University poll finds. Clinton is down 7 points since last month while Sanders is up 9 points.
A hard move to the left would make her job of winning over independent and moderate voters in the general election even more challenging. Independents tend to have very complicated views of Clinton, seeing her on one hand as smart, knowledgeable, and competent, but on the other hand as not particularly likable or trustworthy. Big ideological swings over the course of the campaign aren’t likely to help her credibility. … It can’t be fun for Clinton to be Sanders’s piñata this month and next, but for March 1 on, it shouldn’t be that bad, and there is no point winning the nomination if you render yourself unelectable in the fall.
340,665
Number of ballots cast in online balloting that ran from last Thursday through Sunday night to win the endorsement of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, Politico reports. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders prevailed, “winning 78.6 percent of the vote out of 340,665 ballots cast — both records in terms of most votes cast and largest margin of victory. Just 14.6 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley earned 0.9 percent, with 5.9 percent of ballots in favor of not endorsing a particular candidate this time.”
