Bernie's still got game: Raises 4M since Super TueII. 20% new donors.

Bernie continues to keep it real by raising impressive amounts of money from small donors. #StillSanders

Bernie Sanders campaign says it raised more than $4 million since Tuesday. 20% of donors were new.

Sanders’ decision to forgo a super PAC — something many consultants and pundits dub political suicide — is driving grassroots support and small-dollar donations in a way we’ve never seen.

...according to the Federal Election Commission, through the end of 2015 the campaign had raised around $54 million in donations of $200 or less from more than a million Americans — a small-donor outpouring that far outpaces previous candidates, including Obama in 2008. 

Such an operation, of course, starts with the candidate himself, and his message. “The real innovation here is the authenticity, and the willingness to speak at length about the issues that people are facing every day,” Tagaris told Yahoo News last July. But it ultimately means merging the candidate, the message and the fundraising into a seamless whole — in this case, via the tagline “Paid for by Bernie 2016 (not the billionaires).”

 ...if Tagaris and Co. can help put Sanders over the top and into the White House, it will go a long way in showing that the big-donor model is broken — even before Bernie, Ben and Jerry get a shot at overturning Citizens United. www.ozy.com/...

Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.  

Bernie does not have a SuperPac.

Sanders has relied heavily on small donations to fund his White House ambitions, and the majority — 71% of his contributions — fall at or below the $200 mark. That allows him to return repeatedly to those donors for cash before they reach the $2,700 limit on what an individual can donate to Sanders for the nomination battle.

Only 17.6% of Clinton’s contributions have come in amounts that small. At the same time, more than half of Clinton's donations had hit the $2,700 cap as of Jan. 31, according to the non-partisan Campaign Finance Institute. Only 3% of Sanders' had. www.usatoday.com/...

A grassroots movement by the numbers:✅ Nearly 2 million donors✅ More than 5.7 million contributions✅ Average contribution: $27

Update 1:

Hillary is not holding any public events for the next five days to attend private fundraisers. Her events begin in  wealthy enclaves in CT where tickets start at $2700.

Many of the attendees paid $2,700, but those who wanted a photo with the former Secretary of State paid $5,400 www.courant.com/...