Comments on: Ron Paul’s Fundraising: Better Than Ever ?

By: Mick Russom

Mick Russom — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:32:28 +0000

Sept 27 2007
http://www.economist.com/images/20070929/TAB3.gif

Sept 24 2005
http://www.economist.com/images/20050924/TAB3.gif

It was 100 in the year 2000.

Ron Paul has been vocal about this horrible inflation since at least 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hMeNnbSqkk

You are being paid in an inflating currency. Please think about how that impacts you.

By: Stephen 123

Stephen 123 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:55:21 +0000

It will be more. Look at the fund raisers meals he had that could of pulled in at least a million+. 1 million supporters x $100 = $100 million

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:50:16 +0000

I have mixed feelings about the final amount.
My personal sense is that it is high around 7 million. But after talking to a few people closer to the campaign, I think 4 million might unfortunately be more accurate. That being said, the fact that Paul pulled almost 500,000 in 2.5 days is outstanding. I think it is this sort of measure that is more telling. Ron Paul supporters meet the expectations set by the campaign!! Time to take back America!

By: Mick Russom

Mick Russom — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:17:21 +0000

Not a long shot. Front runner.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:52:04 +0000

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By: Joshua Holmes

Joshua Holmes — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:19:03 +0000

Considering I quoted Buckwheat, not Mataconis, I would have thought it was obvious I was insulting Buckwheat. I won’t assume reading comprehension competence in the future.

By: UCrawford

UCrawford — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:17:29 +0000

Darel99,

I think Joshua was insulting Buckwheat’s condescending tone, not Doug.

And didn’t you actually vow never to post again on this blog? Or is “never” now a timeframe roughly equivalent to two or three weeks?

By: Darel99

Darel99 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:20:50 +0000

Hey Joshua Holmes,

I must admit I have had little respect for many of Dougs posts but I see no reason to offer your tone…. I also think your post undermines the real value of your own blog.

In fact when I receive google news alerts I never see a single alert or link to your site. So why aren’t you offering freedom loving Paul articles which pings on google?

In closing show your worth not your foul mouth.

By: Mick Russom

Mick Russom — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:06:25 +0000

I just donated. FIGHT THE OPPRESSION! Ron Paul 2008.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:11:41 +0000

I think the expectation should be that they are at $2.5M and gunning for $3M, or at $3.5M and gunning for $4M (hence the $500K final week push.) An upside surprise of $5M would certainly make headlines, doubling the second quarter total.

Most of the other campaigns are going to be significantly down in the third quarter. McCain was rumored last week to be just under $4M for the quarter (compared to $10M in Q2). Edwards was trying to raise $1M online in the last 10 days, and was at $420K after 5 days (compared to $300K in 2 days for Paul.) Huckabee was trying to get 2500 donors in September, and was reportedly only at 1500 (compared to 2500+ in one week for Paul in the Fill the Quill contest.)

By: FullyAlive

FullyAlive — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:59:14 +0000

^^^ Dude what’s your problem?

By: Joshua Holmes

Joshua Holmes — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:49:22 +0000

Thanks, Doug! You now have one week of no snotty commentary from me.

Don’t abuse it!!

You’re a fucking asshole.

By: TanGeng

TanGeng — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:16:06 +0000

Don’t know, Doug. Money is great to get coverage and exposure in media. Voter turnout in the primary will rely on volunteers.

Managing the volunteers will be the harder task. Reigning in them in when they are too exuberant. Managing expectation and maintaining morale may be difficult in the face of disappointing results. Whipping up excitement when the proper time comes doesn’t seem to be a problem.

Significant effort and money will need to be spend to really coalesce the Meetup Groups into effective voter turnout forces. It will also require considerable management talent. Perhaps, the campaign will find that talent among its volunteers, but that begs for an unknown entity.

The grassroots based and distributed campaign is a much harder and uncertain campaign style. But can make do with much less money.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:38:35 +0000

From what the campaign has been saying I think Danny’s got it right, I’d put Paul’s fund raising number at about $4M.

By: a Patriot

a Patriot — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:28:51 +0000

i say 7 million plus or minus 1 million… that is from my own calculations of the last 2 months -