Impossible to imagine anyone predicting this six months ago, but as Matea Gold and John Wagner of the Washington Post report
The foundation of Ms. Clinton’s invulnerability was her ability to raise money – something she and her husband have become quite good at doing – and, thus, burying the opposition in cash. Sanders, it was assumed, would always be standing on the side of the road with his thumb out when the great Clinton motorcade went speeding by. One can imagine the near indignation at Clinton HQ: “We’re being matched by Bernie Sanders? Bernie Sanders!”
Well, things do change. And Sanders is not the only unlikely candidate succeeding in the fund raising scrum. As Jonathan Swan of The Hill reports,
Voters, it seems, desire something new and are willing to pay for it.
