Ron Paul Has $4.3 Million Day
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, 3rd Party, Money, Ron PaulWow.
That’s extremely impressive. I think the money bomb exceeded pretty much all expectations.
Supporters of Republican presidential contender Ron Paul rallied Monday and injected almost $4 million into his campaign in just 24 hours, according to campaign fundraising director Jonathan Bydlak.The campaign reported late Monday that it had received 35,000 donations. The amount looks to be a record number for the time in which it was raised.
So Roniacs, if you did it once, you can do it again. Seriously. There’s a money bomb to be dropped at the end of Q4, so get ready for it.
Here’s more on the organizer of bomb:
ABC News tracked down Trevor Lyman, the man behind the Web site that coordinated Paul’s one-day money bomb on his cell phone in line at a Miami Starbucks, where the whir of the barista making his lunchtime latte could be heard in the background.Lyman, 37, is not your average political fundraiser. His day job is running a music promotion Web site, but he spends his free time at the helm of the grassroots Web site that conspired in online chat forums and meetup groups to send a fundraising bomb in support of Paul.
But Lyman, who has never worked for a campaign before — and still doesn’t, technically — describes himself as “mostly apathetic” when it comes to politics, started supporting Paul back when the congressman was just exploring a presidential run.
Again, very impressive and if you all start now you can organize another one of these by the end of Q4 and really shock the world.
Remember, remember…
UPDATE
A commenter writes:
The Dec. 16th Boston Tea Party money bomb will dwarf this one — I bet we get $10 mil from it.There are smaller ones planned in-between, the next one is Nov 11th, Veterans’ Day.
I think it’ll be much more likely that you’ll dwarf this one if it gets a ton of media coverage, which I can’t help but think it will.
UPDATE:
ABC said RP raised $4.3 million. RonPaulGraphs.com said he raised $4 million. The campaign said he raised $3.8 million.
Ummm, who’s right?
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November 6th, 2007 at 8:14 am
There are more in the works, most notably on 12/16, the day of the Boston Tea Party…
November 6th, 2007 at 8:17 am
That is so perfect. I really hope the November 5th guys get on that and secure the December 16th domain name.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:19 am
CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?
November 6th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Ron Paul is a shining point of light in an otherwise dark and dismall caucus/primary season. Do you think ANY of Paul’s donations came from international corporations? Ron’s a respectable man interested in personal liberty and governmental fiscal responsibility. He naturally attracts like minded individuals. What’s surprising is how many of us there are. But then his mesage is one of self preservation. Rock On,Ron!!
November 6th, 2007 at 8:55 am
The RedStaters must be gnashing their teeth.
LOL — see, we ARE real. Call us RonBots if you like, but we’re not going away. See if we don’t stick around and challenge the Bushites for the future of the Republican Party.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Hey, I’m not a college kid and have been voting longer than most college age kids have been alive and I’m a avid Ron Paul supporter, gave him some money yesterday, as did a few people I know and many I don’t know.
What the main stream media doesn’t get yet, is that they are a joke and other than independent news cast, are watched just to see if they are going to lie some more. The real media is the internet and Ron Paul was picked up by the true media and has it’s full support. Other’s have tried and failed.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Justin,
The Dec. 16th Boston Tea Party money bomb will dwarf this one — I bet we get $10 mil from it.
There are smaller ones planned in-between, the next one is Nov 11th, Veterans’ Day.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Really, all this is just the beginning. Today we had a mass of Republicans who had been statewide campaign chairmen and state Republican delegates defect over to the Ron Paul camp. These are old core Republicans, that vote with the party no matter what. I think thats impressive. Their reasoning: Massive grassroot support for Ron Paul and no other candidate. I think this is happening all over America.
Its good to see people taking control, there is hope yet for this country.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I would say Ron Paul can no longer be called a long shot candidate as he is clearly now a top tier candidate. I believe he has passed John McCain into the top tier.
I have put together a website to layout all of the evidence that Ron Paul is clearly doing much better than the national polls indicate. Ron Paul dominates in Straw Polls, Debate Polls, Fund Raising, Web Traffic and Grass Root Networking.
Please visit http://www.thecaseforronpaul.com and judge for yourself.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:36 am
We the people did this, not special interests or multi-national corporations. We rise in support of the message and the man who brings it. We the people will be heard. We the people will restore our beloved republican party to it’s proper direction of fiscal responsibility and a humble foreign policy.
It is time for those republicans out there who still believe in these things to open their eyes and see who is the true defender of these principles. It is time for us to realize that Ron Paul has real support from masses of real people, we the people… Ron Paul is electable not because we are told this by the media, but because we the people choose him to be our voice. The message is powerful, it is conservative, and it places we the people in the drivers seat.
If you love the war, but fear a Clinton presidency, know this.. Even though you may think Ron Paul’s policy on Iraq does not align with your own, it is the very issue that only Ron Paul can use to defeat Hillary. NO other republican candidate can say he voted against the war, the military comissions act, or the war in Iraq. He WILL destroy her on every issue from the war, personal liberties, and big government programs that are bankrupting the country.
Do not fear a non-interventionist foreign policy. It makes sense and will save us and our grandchildren from years of enslavement to pay the interest on the debt we are running up at a blinding pace.
The world will be safer with Israel able to act on it’s own to defend itself, with a united Korean peninsula, and a new respect for us from countless leaders in foreign countries. They will be more willing to work with us rather than obstruct us when they are confident that we will not torture people and violate every principe that free people cherish.
Ron Paul is NOT a wimp, he voted to invade Afghanistan in persuit of Bin Laden, but now objects to the fact that we have more or less dropped the ball, gone into nation building, and have failed to get the real bad guys becasuse we are in the wrong countries standing in the middle of a religious war that has been going on for centuries.
Ron Paul will persue terrorists, but in a different manner. We can get the bad guys by using a network of law enforcement, intelligence, and targeted strikes, rather than bombing and then rebuilding entire nations.
THAT is the conservative way to do it, low cost, friendly relations, trade, and FOCUS. Do not let the media decide for you, read the man’s own words at http://www.ronpaul2008.com
November 6th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Longshot my ass! The next POTUS! Ron Paul is not extremist, outlandish, a moonbat or anything else but a highly intelligent man who is the only one who believes in the rule of law in the this pack. This government is extremist. How can you even justify a government that starts wars and interventions perpetually, builds Iraq while New Orleans is in shambles and burns mercury-coal for power and keeps increasing foreign oil dependence. This government has failed, and this is a time to vote for Ron Paul to flush this terrorist government down the toilet. The only extremists here is the maniacs that cling to the government of the military industrial complex.
November 6th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I’d venture to say that the graph site is most correct. My guess is that ABC took their number from the website this morning (meaning they’re counting extra hours) and subtracted 3.1 million, while RP2008 took their number before the 24 hours expired and subtracted 3.1 million.
The graph site covers specifically a 24-hour period, so it’s likely the most accurate.
That being said, there was some evidence that there was a bottleneck in the donation process slowing down the receipts.
Personally I’d call it a day at a nice round 4 million n’ change. Not a bad haul for fringe candidate with imaginary support ;)
November 6th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
It is refreshing to see my fellow Americans finally waking up to the circumstances they are in. Even if 1 billion dollars is raised for truth and freedom, even if every thinking non-robotic person wakes up and supports Dr. Paul, even if every MSM media scumbag article is challenged on the facts by hundreds of people who see the facts, IT WILL ALL BE FOR NOTHING if we do not take back the voting system to open transparent fairness.
Electronic voting machines are a part of the foundation of the establishment’s control. The tyrants can safely sit behind phony poll results as a screen for the fraud they will pull on election day. The establishment foresaw that a certain percentage of Americans would start to awaken as the tyranny became more obvious. Unless you want all your work to go down the drain you MUST do something about the electronic voting machines. The system can crank in any result they want.
50 lawsuits in the 50 sates are in the process of being filed that demand the decertification of electronic, paperless voting machines like the Diebold system. Please check out the votefraud org also VoteInSunshine and the National Clean Elections Lawsuit: “N-CEL” for more details about this vital subject. Time is short. I pray it is not too late for all of us!
“I care not who votes, I care only about those who count the votes”.-
quote attributed to the dictator Josef Stalin
November 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I agree with William Wallace. If you haven’t read his comment, I suggest you do so. The 2000 Florida fiasco wasn’t so much hanging chads, Nader voters, or a bad US Supreme Court ruling. It was the disenfranchisement of about 50, 000 voters who were wrongfully removed from the voting rolls by a company hired by then Governor JEB Bush. This same governor & then current legislature passed a law legitimizing paperless ballots. Fortunately for us, the following governor, Charlie Crist ( R) & our current legislature (also R) banned paperless voting & touch screen machines, despite having to scrap several hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Touch Screen machines already purchased.
Senator Bill Nelson of FL has co sponsored a bill to eliminate paperless voting in all Federal elections as of November 2012. The bill does not go far enough soon enough. The Congress cannot mandate rules for state & local elections, & the 2008 elections could be stolen by hacking into these machines at both the Federal & local levels. Every progfram ever written for these machines has been hacked within a couple days. Grass roots efforts are necessary to pressure state & local lawmakers to eliminate this threat to our right of choice. Come election day, every voter has the right to demand a paper ballot. If your precinct uses touch screen, I urge you to take advantage of that right.
I still haven’t decided who I will vote for a year from now, but I want my vote to be counted
November 6th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
“UPDATE:
ABC said RP raised $4.3 million. RonPaulGraphs.com said he raised $4 million. The campaign said he raised $3.8 million.
Ummm, who’s right?”
They all are right.
What happened is at the start of the day the campaign added ~$400,000 off off-line donations to the gauge on the contribution meter to keep it accurate as to the total raised for the quarter.
RonPaulGraphs adjusted the start total for the day to ignore that addition, so they have the most technechly accurate number ($3,992,786) for online and phone donations that day. The campaign number I believe was for ONLINE ONLY donations(clear all-time record for any canidate). The ABC number is an acceptable estimation with all donations included.
November 8th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between” Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like “America Deceived’ from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov’t Will and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
November 8th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
ABC said RP raised $4.3 million. RonPaulGraphs.com said he raised $4 million. The campaign said he raised $3.8 million.
Ummm, who’s right?
The correct amount is $4.28 million. ABC rounds it up. The campaign letter on the website mentioning $3.8 million was written before the end of the the day.
There is a “fudge factor” at play. Since November 5th is actually 29 hours from coast-to-coast, the campaign refers to a 24-hour period (which might not be exactly 12a-12a EST).
RonPaulGraphs explains that it strictly used the on-line contributions and ignored the “spike” of off-line contributions of $250k that were entered into the reporting system at mid-day.
Hope that clears it up.