Bernie Sanders has one of the strongest grassroots campaign in the history of politics.
The Iowa caucus is only a couple weeks away and the Vermont Senator is on fire in the state. In 2016 most polls had Hillary Clinton leading Sanders by about 8% in the state, but the results were much closer than many anticipated. The final result (despite a late challenge), was that Hillary Clinton won the Iowa Caucus by the closest margin in the history of the contest: 49.8% Clinton to 49.6% Bernie Sanders.
The big difference in 2020
In 2016, Bernie Sanders had 74 offices in the state of Iowa, this year he has an astonishing 150 offices and the largest ground patrol in the history of the state. Despite being 78 years old, Senator Sanders’s popularity is increasing; he has the highest favorability of any other democrat according to a just released CBS news poll.
34 Million dollars raised in the last quarter
The Bernie Sanders campaign announced last week that they had raised an unheard of $ 34 million dollars in just the last 4 months of 2019. The total contributions are now at 109 million for the year of 2019; this has allowed the Sanders campaign to put a very strong team on the ground in Iowa.
Most of this money is from small individual donations averaging $18 dollars each, compare this to other campaigns that rely on billion corporations to finance their campaign.
Individual contribution translates into real voter turnout, people who donate their money come out to vote. Teachers and nurses were found to be the largest contributors to the Sanders campaign, not one billionaire.
Secret weapon
One thing that the mainstream media has not reported on, is the tremendous numbers of people who are knocking on doors in Iowa for the Bernie Sanders campaign; this produces results!
In the next post I will go more into the door knocking strategy and why it works so well.
Judging by 2016, Bernie Sanders will be very hard to beat in Iowa in 2020.
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