Hillary Clinton has 450,105 people talking about her and 2,163,285 likes on Facebook, while U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has 1,585,095 people talking about him and somewhere between 2,772,632 to 5,070,300 total likes on two Facebook pages.

This indicates an enthusiasm gap that favors Sanders significantly, despite his disadvantages of being ignored by corporate controlled media outlets, a self-imposed ban on negative attack ads, and voluntarily having no access to mega-donor and super PAC money that he believes are part of the problem in politics.

The figures shown are imprecise because some duplication is possible between the two Facebook pages featuring Sanders.

Sanders has 1,159,160 people talking about him and 2,772,632 likes on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders while second Sanders page, https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders, has 425,935 people talking about him and 2,297,668 likes on Facebook.

The enthusiasm gap enjoyed by Sanders could turn into a greater percentage of his supporters actually attending caucus sessions or going to the polls and it suggets that he might be a stronger candidate than his opponent, at least some of whose support is simply based on name recognition.

Polling data often fails to reflect the intensity of opinion that is out there, but Sanders’ movement from three percent to 40 percent in about six months, as well as the level of digust among Americans for a political system that is clearly rigged in favor of the wealthy, shows something great is inflluencing the populace.

Minority voters in many states that holder later primaries are not paying attention to Sanders today because they know and like Hillary but when she loses in Iowa or New Hampshire, they are going to join the masses who are watching and they will draw the same conclusions as everyone else.

Also, anything less than a blowout among those first states is going to be considered a Sanders victory. Explaining that Sanders cannot win if he gets more than 40 percent of the vote or caucus delegates is going to be like telling Americans their votes do not matter and it could inspire even greater momentum for the insurgent.

“This is a ‘change’ election and Bernie Sanders is the candidate of change,” said Democratic strategist James Devine. “In 2008, Democrats rejected Hillary Clinton because they were looking for change and this time, there is an even more reliable alternative who can deliver on big changes.”

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