Bernie’s Army of Coders

If viral videos, data analytics, Twitter and meet-up pages were the big breakthroughs of past presidential elections, 2016 could very well go down as the year of the app. And no one has been a bigger beneficiary than Sen Bernie Sanders, an anti-establishment independent-turned-Democrat with legions of code-savvy, unpaid helpers.

Many of his volunteer coders are under-30 political neophytes first drawn to Sen Sanders through a fan-driven Reddit page, an online message board that is far and away the largest for anyone in the 2016 field. With more than 188,000 subscribers, the SandersForPresident subReddit is more popular than pages featuring cars, beer or even um, er, ‘adult’ content.