There are only am­a­teurs at the head of Bernie Sanders’s un­of­fi­cial on­line army: A fur­niture de­sign­er, a 15-year-old high school sopho­more, a tech-star­tup founder, and a struc­tur­al en­gin­eer. In short, it’s am­a­teur hour, but it’s a par­tic­u­larly suc­cess­ful group of am­a­teurs. They’re re­spons­ible for Red­dit’s /r/Sander­sFor­Pres­id­ent, a subred­dit that (as of 1:02 p.m. EDT Monday) has 115,634 mem­bers sub­scribed.They’re not of­fi­cially a part of the cam­paign, and they’re not cost­ing the can­did­ate a dime. In­stead, they are a grass­roots, loosely co­ordin­ated on­line ef­fort to help push Sanders’s pro­gress­ive can­did­acy. The ques­tion now is wheth­er the masses can mo­bil­ize them­selves in­to ef­fect­ive sup­port.

Source: Bernie Sanders Is Dominating the Reddit Primary

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