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Hillary Clinton

RandySF

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9. 28 Percent of Sanders Campaign Donations Come From People Who Aren't in the Workforce

Reply to BobbyDrake (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 5, 2016, 12:43 PM

Jun 2016

The most interesting thing to me, though, is the fact that 28.6 percent of Sanders donors are not in the workforce, whether unemployed, disabled, or retired. The next most common field among donors is healthcare, at 7.4 percent, and education, at 7.2. Read the whole thing here.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/28-percent-of-sanders-campaign-donations-come-from-peop-1780316765

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It's official. The Virgin Islands do not count. [View all] RandySF Jun 2016 OP

Another voting district being thrown under the bus? Gothmog Jun 2016 #1

That pretty much sums up his special math. n/t MBS Jun 2016 #12

So, does that mean poor people dependent on tourism jobs nini Jun 2016 #2

And here's the thing RandySF Jun 2016 #4

So true. nini Jun 2016 #8

Having ANY job makes you part of the establishment, remember? BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #5

thanks for the reminder nini Jun 2016 #6

28 Percent of Sanders Campaign Donations Come From People Who Aren't in the Workforce RandySF Jun 2016 #9

College kids sending him their tuition $ in $27 installments, stopbush Jun 2016 #11

The most disturbing thing, to me: BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #22

And those people are likely still paying off the credit card bills. RandySF Jun 2016 #23

Or, more likely, we are for them. nt BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #24

Nothing they can do can change anything. Not one thing. nt BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #3

Unless BS won, of course.. then they'd be jumping for joy.. instead.. Cha Jun 2016 #7

Exactly! pandr32 Jun 2016 #16

Aloha, pandr! Cha Jun 2016 #17

You too Cha! pandr32 Jun 2016 #25

Of course not, waaaaaaaay too far south. Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #10

wow so many reasons for votes not to count when HRC wins! Her Sister Jun 2016 #13

Oh my! sheshe2 Jun 2016 #14

Sounds a lot like Vermont. OilemFirchen Jun 2016 #15

Virgin Islands = Confederacy? johnp3907 Jun 2016 #18

Nope, they don't. And when she wins Puerto Rico today, they won't count, either. BlueCaliDem Jun 2016 #19

The VI may not count but the delegates Blue Idaho Jun 2016 #20

demographics. and the VI are southern. same old excuses for a loss nt msongs Jun 2016 #21

First it was the rich who gave her the win...now it's the oppressed poor whose votes lunamagica Jun 2016 #26

They just don't 'get it'... Blanks Jun 2016 #27

Yeah, those poor, ignorant islanders are so clueless that they don't know what's good for them lunamagica Jun 2016 #28

Hillary Clinton: 87% jamese777 Jun 2016 #29