XHTML File of All Q4 Military Donors to All Campaigns - Help Me Extrapolate Data!

[JeffSchulman]

I spent the last 2 hours consolidating data in OpenOffice Calc and I finally got it to export the filtered data list. I had to filter the duplicates by Name, Donation Size, and Date, because some people came up on more than one search phrase, and there are over 4500 individual donations.

The bad news is that the filtered list would only export in XHTML format. I posted the file at http://oceanicevolution.com/Photos/contributorDataFile.xhtml

The .XLS file (unsorted, duplicates are still in the file) is at http://oceanicevolution.com/Photos/contributorDataFile.xls

Can someone see if you can get this imported into a spreadsheet and calculate the total donations/donors?

I used somewhere around 20 search phrases, to include Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, USN, DoD, Soldier, USAF, USMC, USN, National Guard, etc. I also went through and deleted all of the obvious false positives (I.E. "Salvation Army" or "Army Civilian.") I kept military spouses in, because the FEC considers a married couple a single legal entity.

[PatriotOne]

Bump for Jeff.

[amy31416]

I'll see what I can do. . .I'm decent with excel, but I've never tried anything quite like this...

[dannno]

So far..

Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00

[dannno]

so far...


Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00
Bill Richardson $21,175.00
Christopher J Dodd $1,098.00
Dennis J Kucinich $2,952.00
Duncan Hunter $9,820.00
Fred Dalton Thompson $58,373.00
Hillary Rodham Clinton $75,258.00
John Edwards $20,711.00
John H Cox $70.00
John S McCain $106,309.00

:D

[MooCowzRock]

So far..

Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00

compare the numbers to GOP candidates...To beat McCain in military donations would be awesome. That point could be used to convert every conservative vote...As soon as you have the support of the troops, its all over!

[dannno]

Ta da!!

Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00
John S McCain $106,309.00
Hillary Rodham Clinton $75,258.00
Fred Dalton Thompson $58,373.00
Mike Huckabee $47,376.00
Mitt Romney $43,332.00
Rudolph W Giuliani $23,430.00
Bill Richardson $21,175.00
John Edwards $20,711.00
Joseph R Jr Biden $10,940.00
Duncan Hunter $9,820.00
Thomas Gerald Tancredo $7,200.00
Samuel Dale Brownback $3,606.00
Dennis J Kucinich $2,952.00
Christopher J Dodd $1,098.00
Mike Gravel $970.00
John H Cox $70.00

[dannno]

wait.. what's with the duplicates??

[dannno]

on the duplicates the totals are different, so my total donations should be ok, right?? but if i wanted to see how many people donated, i would have to take out the duplicate names, right??

all those numbers are based off your excel file..

[OKRonPaul]

if those initial results are right i see RP within 4k of all other active candidates combined

Ron Paul ...............................392721

Barack Obama ......................124234
Mike Huckabee ......................47376
Mitt Romney ..........................43332
Hillary Rodham Clinton............75258
John S McCain........................106309
total.......................396509

is that right????

[Jassman]

This needs to get out to every media outlet possible.

[homah]

I get the same numbers as everyone else, FWIW.

[OKRonPaul]

if the numbers are right that's 99% of all other active candidates combined. That's close enough for the media to call the same right?

edit: prods to jeff and danno for compiling and cruching these so fast.

[mello]

Ta da!!

Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00
John S McCain $106,309.00
Hillary Rodham Clinton $75,258.00
Fred Dalton Thompson $58,373.00
Mike Huckabee $47,376.00
Mitt Romney $43,332.00
Rudolph W Giuliani $23,430.00
Bill Richardson $21,175.00
John Edwards $20,711.00
Joseph R Jr Biden $10,940.00
Duncan Hunter $9,820.00
Thomas Gerald Tancredo $7,200.00
Samuel Dale Brownback $3,606.00
Dennis J Kucinich $2,952.00
Christopher J Dodd $1,098.00
Mike Gravel $970.00
John H Cox $70.00


RON PAUL = $392,721

Barack Obama
+ John S McCain
+ Hillary Rodham Clinton
+ Fred Thompson
= $364,174

Dr. Paul received more money from soldiers than then next four highest earners COMBINED!!!

Congressman Paul definitely needs to bring that up at a debate the next time Mccain says he knows what the soldiers are saying about the war.

[Avalon]

if those initial results are right i see RP within 4k of all other active candidates combined

Ron Paul ...............................392721

Barack Obama ......................124234
Mike Huckabee ......................47376
Mitt Romney ..........................43332
Hillary Rodham Clinton............75258
John S McCain........................106309
total.......................396509

is that right???? That's what Ron Paul needs to point out at the MTV debate (with all candidates present) after someone brags about supporting the troops.

[JeffSchulman]

Here's the numbers I got, filtering out the duplicates using manual labor (meh)

Ron Paul: $286764 1349 Donations
McCain : $ 79597 413 Donations
Romney: $ 29250 140 Donations
Huckabee: $ 24562 94 Donations

Obama: $ 81037 466 Donations
Clinton: $ 49523 181 Donations

TOTAL OF ALL OTHERS: $263969 1294 Donations

The donations total does include total number of donations. The number of total donors is less than the total number of donations.
I was very exacting when computing this, and I believe this result to be completely accurate.

[Mark]

FWIW - http://www.dailypaul.com/node/32622


Army;

RonPaul-413 donations
Mc.Cain- 141 donations
Romney- 72 donations


Navy;

Ron Paul-242
Mc.Cain- 185
Romney- 22
Huckabee-33


Air Force:

Ron Paul-137
Mc.Cain-69
Romaney-10
Hucabee-40


Marine:

Ron Paul-109
Mc.Cain- 4
Romney-20
Hucabee-23


Coast Gaurd:

Ron Paul-30
Mc.Cain- 4
Romney- 1
Huckabee-3



Total Military member donations to: Mc.Cain, Romney, Huckabee - donations combined: - 732

Ron Paul total Military member donations:-931

[Mark]

FWIW: I uploaded the xhtml file - it's viewable at least -

http://MegaPaul.com/military_third_quarter.xhtml

[amy31416]

Here's a visual for those who are into that sort of thing ;)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g107/Amy31415/RonPaulQ4MilitaryStatscopy.jpg

I did not manipulate the data at all for duplication or anything else, this graph is from the raw numbers. I can't tell if someone is a duplicate or if they donated several times in one day.

[TexMac]

What do you mean by "duplicate"? For example, I find the following in the .xls file.


ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 1500 Barack Obama
Did this guy make 9 contributions? Why do they always happen on the same day? If you can explain this to me, I'll make a little program to figure it out.

[amy31416]

What do you mean by "duplicate"? For example, I find the following in the .xls file.


ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 1500 Barack Obama
Did this guy make 9 contributions? Why do they always happen on the same day? If you can explain this to me, I'll make a little program to figure it out.

I don't know. If you can figure this out and make the data more accurate, I'll adjust my graph.

[SWATH]

Well it adds up to $2300 so it appears that the totals do add up whether or not they donated 9 time or 1 time and the totals got divided up.

[amy31416]

Here's another view with the candidates who've dropped out removed: http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g107/Amy31415/Q4MilitaryDonations.jpg

[SWATH]

Why are the graphs showing below 300k for Paul but the raw numbers show 392k?

[Abegweit]

Well it adds up to $2300 so it appears that the totals do add up whether or not they donated 9 time or 1 time and the totals got divided up.OK. That makes sense. Then why did the OP refer to duplicates? The first eight contributions were identical. It doesn't always add up to $2300 either.

[amy31416]

Why are the graphs showing below 300k but the raw numbers show 392k?

Raw numbers from the file that I created the graphs from:


Barack Obama 63611
Bill Richardson 15150
Chris Dodd 1098
Dennis Kucinich 2042
Duncan Hunter 4150
Fred Thompson 39550
Hillary Clinton 54754
John Edwards 15612
John Cox 70
John McCain 79597
Joe Biden 6615
Mike Gravel 660
Mike Huckabee 24562
Mitt Romney 29250
Ron Paul 286764
Rudy Giuliani 16280
Sam Brownback 2471
Tom Tancredo 6105


If these numbers are at all incorrect, I'll fix it.

[IDefendThePlatform]

That's awesome news. Great work guys. Now I just want to see this repeated 200x on Faux news all this week and I'll be happy.

Question for Senator McCain: Why does Ron Paul receive 3.5x as much in military donations as you?

[TexMac]

I spent the last 2 hours consolidating data in OpenOffice Calc and I finally got it to export the filtered data list. I had to filter the duplicates by Name, Donation Size, and Date, because some people came up on more than one search phrase, and there are over 4500 individual donations.

The bad news is that the filtered list would only export in XHTML format. I posted the file at http://oceanicevolution.com/Photos/contributorDataFile.xhtml

The .XLS file (unsorted, duplicates are still in the file) is at http://oceanicevolution.com/Photos/contributorDataFile.xls

Can someone see if you can get this imported into a spreadsheet and calculate the total donations/donors?

I used somewhere around 20 search phrases, to include Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, USN, DoD, Soldier, USAF, USMC, USN, National Guard, etc. I also went through and deleted all of the obvious false positives (I.E. "Salvation Army" or "Army Civilian.") I kept military spouses in, because the FEC considers a married couple a single legal entity.

Jeff, are these numbers from Q4? Look at the donation dates. Those aren't Q4 dates.

Where did you get the data?

[colecrowe]

DONE: Here are Ron Paul's Q4 numbers:

If you want the excel file, pm me and I'll email it to you.


Grand Total "131,078.33"

Data for all Candidates Q4: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/
Ron Paul Q4 Main Page: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/C00432914.html
Ron Paul donations by employer: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/C00432914/A_EMPLOYER_C00432914.html

list of all search terms used:
"army, air, usaf, navy, naval, marine, usmc, coast, uscg, defense, dod, national, guard, reserve, vet"

Obama Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($35,405.01): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=109097

Huckabee Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($29,360.32): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=107835
McCain Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($42,354.00): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=107870
Romney Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($9,328.00): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=1142317

**********
ARKANSAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 800
ARMY "3,486.90"
ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS 150
"ARMY NAT'L GUARD / SHARP CONCEPTS, INC" 324
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 525
CHUCK E CHEESE; SOUTH CAROLINA ARMY [National Guard] 100
DEPARTMENT OF ARMY 500
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT- US ARMY 201
FLORIDA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 135.1
MA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 200
NEVADA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 652
"PICATINNY ARSENAL, US ARMY" 187
SHERWIN WILLIAMS; ARMY "1,200.00"
STALEY MOVING/US ARMY VETERAN 688.26
U S ARMY AVIATION ENGINEERING 125
U S ARMY OFFICER 250
UNITED STATES ARMY "2,028.28"
UNITES STATES ARMY 250
US ARMY "34,987.82"
US ARMY (RETIRED) "1,028.76"
US ARMY ACTIVE DUTY "2,300.00"
US ARMY AVIATION ENGINEERING 700
US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS 470
US ARMY CTNG 511
US ARMY ENGINEER CORP 247.76
US ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 100
US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 252.95
US ARMY RESERVE 864.48
"US ARMY RETIRED, CSC" 100
US ARMY TACOM 721.95
"US ARMY VETERAN, WWII" "1,776.00"
US ARMY/WALTON CO 150
UTAH ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 300
VETERAN ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 201

Army Total 56514.26

AIR FORCE 683.45
AIR FORCE VET 400
DOD/AIR FORECE 300.00
NEBRASKA AIR NATIONAL GUARD 320.00
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE "6,047.26"
GEICO (USAF VETERAN) "1,100.00"
RETIRED USAF 250.00
USAF "24,721.05"
USAF RETIRED "1,664.52"
USAF VETERAN "1,067.00"
USAFR [Reserve] 200

Air Force Total "36,753.28"

BCPS - NAVY RESERVE 130
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY "1,638.28"
DEPT OF NAVY "1,700.00"
DOD US NAVY 277.95
DON-DEPARTMENT OF NAVY 265.00
JMP PROMOTIONS/US NAVY RESERVES 300
NAVY "1,800.09"
U S NAVY "4,940.11"
UNITED STATES NAVY "1,532.95"
US NAVY NMCB 133 UNIT 60254 FPO AA 250.00
US NAVY RESERVE 651
US NAVY/DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,475.00"
NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER "1,336.25"
NAVAL ORDNANCE STA "2,300.00"
NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER 123
US NAVAL RESERVE 125

Navy Total "18,844.63"

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS "1,365.00"
US MARINE CORP 296
DOD USMC 566.50
FEDERAL GOVERMENT USMC 500
USMC "1,832.76"
USMC (RET) 125
USMCR [Reserves] 150.00

Marine Corps Total "4,835.26"

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD "1,403.96"
US COAST GUARD 690.00

Coast Guard Total "2,093.96"

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE "3,059.61"
DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,301.00"
DEPT OF DEFENSE & LOCKLHEED 297.04
US DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,700.00"
DOD "1,755.17"
US GOVENMENT DOD "1,000.00"

Department of Defense Total "9,112.82"

MN NATIONAL GUARD 57.5
MONTANA NATIONAL GUARD 470
NATIONAL GUARD 661.11

Unknown Specific Branch Total 1188.61

DISABLED VETERAN 350
DISABLED VIETNAM VET 216
RETIRED - WWII VETERAN 330
RETIRED VET 300
RETIRED VETERAN 116.97
VETERAN 422.54

Veteran Unknown Branch Total 1735.51

Grand Total "131,078.33"


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Everyone one I know who has served in Iraq including myself supports RP or Obama.
http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/

Youtube about getting the most from military in Q3 (FAUX News): Ron Paul gets the most money from military members and vets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwZGRrqhfs

And another: at 6:31 ... A New Hope 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIivoqLbeeg

Articles: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/14/war-critics-obama-ron-pa_n_64417.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3601542
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/engelhardt

Ron Paul gets the most money from military members and vets:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/1912869/posts

Ron Paul receives the most military donations among Republicans AGAIN in Q3 (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/10/15/ron-paul-receives-the-most-military-donations-among-republicans-again-in-q3/)

It appears our military backs Ron Paul in the most important issue facing the United States: Terrorism and our foreign policy. For the second time in a row, Ron Paul receives more donations among Republicans. Data for Democrats is not yet available, but Ron Paul crushed Democrats in this statistic last quarter as well.
Candidate [Air Force] [Army] [Navy] [Marines] [Coast Guard] [Other*] [Total]
Brownback [151] [0] [0] [0] [0] [250] [401]
Cox [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0]
Guiliani [1,250] [750] [1,500] [1,000] [0] [0] [4,500]
Huckabee [2,050] [1,200] [2,850] [0] [250] [260] [6,610]
Hunter [0] [500] [0] [0] [0] [30] [530]
McCain [4,120] [7,972] [6,645] [1,721] [100] [800] [21,358]
Paul [7,450] [17,998.96] [7,227.76] [2,740] [800] [4,200] [40,416.72]
Romney [500] [3,410] [750] [800] [0] [250] [5,710]
Thompson [4,800] [5,825] [6,350] [800] [23] [2,600] [20,398]
Ron Paul: $40K (http://rp4.us/2007/10/15/ron-paul-gets-3961672-in-military-donations-in-q3/)
McCain: $21K
Thompson: $20K
This data is sourced from FEC Reports for Q3 (http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/Q3/) and was compiled here (http://www.jfletch.com/military_q3.zip) by jfletch and RP4.US
*This list uses donators who listed their employer as some variation of Air Force, Army, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Retired Vet, Veteran, Civilian Military employee, or Military (no branch indicated). This is preliminary data and may contain insignificant errors.
Ron Paul led in military contributions last quarter as well (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/):



Ron Paul leads ALL ‘08 candidates with over one-fourth of military contributions for Q2 (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/)

Earlier, we reported military contributions among Republican presidential candidates place Ron Paul on top at 49.5% (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/16/military-support-for-the-republican-candidates/), with nearly as much as all Republicans combined.
A more complete compilation of statistics by Phreadom (http://phreadom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-is-most-financially-military.html) shows that presidential candidate Ron Paul leads all 2008 presidential candidates in military contributions from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and war veterans. Presidential candidate Ron Paul leads with an impressive one-fourth* of all contributions this second quarter according to newly released data from the FEC.
Ron Paul currently has more cash-on-hand than John McCain this quarter, and this new information is indicative of Ron Paul’s success. It appears that our soldiers and war veterans have an affinity to, or inclination for Ron Paul’s non-intervention principle - defending our homeland and pursuing terrorists, but no nation-building.
Military contributions for Q2
Ron Paul 26.23%
Barack Obama 24.02%
John McCain 18.31%
Hillary Clinton 11.08%
Bill Richardson 5.59%
Mitt Romney 4.05%
John Edwards 2.63%
Rudy Giuliani 2.44%
Mike Huckabee 1.84%
Tom Tancredo 1.63%
Duncan Hunter 1.05%
Joe Biden 0.84%
Mike Gravel 0.16%
Sam Brownback 0.07%
Dennis Kucinich 0.05%
Tommy Thompson 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Jim Gilmore 0%
John Cox 0%
Source: Finance Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly (http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/Q2/) and compiled by Phreadom (http://phreadom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-is-most-financially-military.html). Visit phreadom.blogspot.com for more detail.
*Edit: Correction for Obama’s totals changes the order and brings him to second place in military contributions, passing McCain. Our apologies to Sen. Barack Obama. (7/19/07)

[colecrowe]

be sure not to count these.. they are probably civilian/tech--not uniformed military:

BASSETT ARMY MED CENTER 700
SIERRA ARMY DEPOT 100
US ARMY CIVILIAN 528.45
US AIR FORCE (CIVILIAN) 365.76
US AIR FORCE (CIVILIAN) 365.76
ARMY SPOUSE 201 (that's my wife :))

UNITED STATES NAVY/CIVIL SERVICE 875
US NAVY, CIVILIAN 175
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL 200
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY 450
NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD 300
PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD & IMF 500.7
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD 300
PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD 136.5
US NAVAL RESEARCH LAB 2,300.00

DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY 100

[riprvw]

not sure how good that list is... my wife and I both donated in the 4th qtr and we are not on that list of military donations.

[colecrowe]

If you want the excel file, pm me and I'll email it to you.

[colecrowe]

not sure how good that list is... my wife and I both donated in the 4th qtr and we are not on that list of military donations.

If 14 people said U.S. Army they would all be one item on the list.

If 3 People said United States Army, they would all be one item on the list.

Get it?

[icon124]

wow so we got most military donations AGAIN????!??!?!?!?

[colecrowe]

we need this numbers ironed out and verified asap.


those numbers are good. Even if they're off by 1-3%, what diff could that make? We stomped 'em. MORE than three times more than the runner up (McCain). Actually, I am going to do Obama now, he probably did better than McCain and maybe even beat us. But that wouldn't matter--because we still stomped the pro war Repubs

Here I go on Obama. Be back in 15 minutes with that post hopefully, and hopefully with exciting news.

[crackyflipside]

GET THIS TO THE MEDIA!!!!!

Show them their frontrunners DO NOT have the soldiers majority support!

Let the campaign write a press release, this will be HUGE to the neocons out there who think Ron Paul is wrong on Iraq. Show them why our military supports Ron Paul.

[colecrowe]

send this to the campaign please..I'm busy thanks a million

[SWATH]

So are these the total contributions to date then?


Ron Paul $392,721.00
Barack Obama $124,234.00
John S McCain $106,309.00
Hillary Rodham Clinton $75,258.00
Fred Dalton Thompson $58,373.00
Mike Huckabee $47,376.00
Mitt Romney $43,332.00
Rudolph W Giuliani $23,430.00
Bill Richardson $21,175.00
John Edwards $20,711.00
Joseph R Jr Biden $10,940.00
Duncan Hunter $9,820.00
Thomas Gerald Tancredo $7,200.00
Samuel Dale Brownback $3,606.00
Dennis J Kucinich $2,952.00
Christopher J Dodd $1,098.00
Mike Gravel $970.00
John H Cox $70.00

[cheese]

What do you mean by "duplicate"? For example, I find the following in the .xls file.


ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 100 Barack Obama
ARNOLD, JACK US ARMY/ARABIC LINGUIST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CARTHAGE NY 13619 03/07/2007 1500 Barack Obama
Did this guy make 9 contributions? Why do they always happen on the same day? If you can explain this to me, I'll make a little program to figure it out.

Why are these dates 03/07/2007 (last spring!) ?

we want only Q4 or total

[colecrowe]

Obama got 33,343

post in just a minute

[Abegweit]

OK. Assuming that the xls file contains nothing but unique entries, then I get the following Q4 results:

Barack Obama 59939
Bill Richardson 2650
Christopher J Dodd 848
Dennis J Kucinich 2788
Duncan Hunter 1920
Fred Dalton Thompson 38948
Hillary Rodham Clinton 36436
John Edwards 10880
John S McCain 58413
Joseph R Jr Biden 7665
Mike Gravel 400
Mike Huckabee 40956
Mitt Romney 18992
Ron Paul 318101
Rudolph W Giuliani 13610
Samuel Dale Brownback 350
Thomas Gerald Tancredo 2730

In brief:
Ron Paul $318,101
Everyone but RP $297,525

It would really be nice to know where the OP got this data form.

[colecrowe]

Obama's numbers: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=109097

[colecrowe]

I put the link at the top, under "by employer"




It would really be nice to know where the OP got this data form.

[colecrowe]

Everyone one I know who has served in Iraq including myself supports RP or Obama.
http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/

Youtube about getting the most from military in Q3 (FAUX News): Ron Paul gets the most money from military members and vets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwZGRrqhfs

And another: at 6:31 ... A New Hope 2.0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIivoqLbeeg

Articles: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/14/war-critics-obama-ron-pa_n_64417.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3601542
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/engelhardt

Ron Paul gets the most money from military members and vets:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/1912869/posts

Ron Paul receives the most military donations among Republicans AGAIN in Q3 (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/10/15/ron-paul-receives-the-most-military-donations-among-republicans-again-in-q3/)

It appears our military backs Ron Paul in the most important issue facing the United States: Terrorism and our foreign policy. For the second time in a row, Ron Paul receives more donations among Republicans. Data for Democrats is not yet available, but Ron Paul crushed Democrats in this statistic last quarter as well.
Candidate [Air Force] [Army] [Navy] [Marines] [Coast Guard] [Other*] [Total]
Brownback [151] [0] [0] [0] [0] [250] [401]
Cox [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0] [0]
Guiliani [1,250] [750] [1,500] [1,000] [0] [0] [4,500]
Huckabee [2,050] [1,200] [2,850] [0] [250] [260] [6,610]
Hunter [0] [500] [0] [0] [0] [30] [530]
McCain [4,120] [7,972] [6,645] [1,721] [100] [800] [21,358]
Paul [7,450] [17,998.96] [7,227.76] [2,740] [800] [4,200] [40,416.72]
Romney [500] [3,410] [750] [800] [0] [250] [5,710]
Thompson [4,800] [5,825] [6,350] [800] [23] [2,600] [20,398]
Ron Paul: $40K (http://rp4.us/2007/10/15/ron-paul-gets-3961672-in-military-donations-in-q3/)
McCain: $21K
Thompson: $20K
This data is sourced from FEC Reports for Q3 (http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/Q3/) and was compiled here (http://www.jfletch.com/military_q3.zip) by jfletch and RP4.US
*This list uses donators who listed their employer as some variation of Air Force, Army, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Retired Vet, Veteran, Civilian Military employee, or Military (no branch indicated). This is preliminary data and may contain insignificant errors.
Ron Paul led in military contributions last quarter as well (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/):



Ron Paul leads ALL ‘08 candidates with over one-fourth of military contributions for Q2 (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/)

Earlier, we reported military contributions among Republican presidential candidates place Ron Paul on top at 49.5% (http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/16/military-support-for-the-republican-candidates/), with nearly as much as all Republicans combined.
A more complete compilation of statistics by Phreadom (http://phreadom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-is-most-financially-military.html) shows that presidential candidate Ron Paul leads all 2008 presidential candidates in military contributions from the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and war veterans. Presidential candidate Ron Paul leads with an impressive one-fourth* of all contributions this second quarter according to newly released data from the FEC.
Ron Paul currently has more cash-on-hand than John McCain this quarter, and this new information is indicative of Ron Paul’s success. It appears that our soldiers and war veterans have an affinity to, or inclination for Ron Paul’s non-intervention principle - defending our homeland and pursuing terrorists, but no nation-building.
Military contributions for Q2
Ron Paul 26.23%
Barack Obama 24.02%
John McCain 18.31%
Hillary Clinton 11.08%
Bill Richardson 5.59%
Mitt Romney 4.05%
John Edwards 2.63%
Rudy Giuliani 2.44%
Mike Huckabee 1.84%
Tom Tancredo 1.63%
Duncan Hunter 1.05%
Joe Biden 0.84%
Mike Gravel 0.16%
Sam Brownback 0.07%
Dennis Kucinich 0.05%
Tommy Thompson 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Jim Gilmore 0%
John Cox 0%
Source: Finance Reports for the 2007 July Quarterly (http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/Q2/) and compiled by Phreadom (http://phreadom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-is-most-financially-military.html). Visit phreadom.blogspot.com for more detail.
*Edit: Correction for Obama’s totals changes the order and brings him to second place in military contributions, passing McCain. Our apologies to Sen. Barack Obama. (7/19/07)

[TonySutton]

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[colecrowe]

someone post this to dailypaul please


DONE: Here are Ron Paul's Q4 numbers:

If you want the excel file, pm me and I'll email it to you.


Grand Total "131,078.33"

Data for all Candidates Q4: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/
Ron Paul Q4 Main Page: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/C00432914.html
Ron Paul donations by employer: http://query.nictusa.com/pres/2007/YE/C00432914/A_EMPLOYER_C00432914.html

list of all search terms used:
"army, air, usaf, navy, naval, marine, usmc, coast, uscg, defense, dod, national, guard, reserve, vet"

Obama Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($35,405.01): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=109097

Huckabee Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($29,360.32): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=107835
McCain Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($42,354.00): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=107870
Romney Q4 Military members and Veterans donation totals ($9,328.00): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=1142317

**********
ARKANSAS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 800
ARMY "3,486.90"
ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS 150
"ARMY NAT'L GUARD / SHARP CONCEPTS, INC" 324
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 525
CHUCK E CHEESE; SOUTH CAROLINA ARMY [National Guard] 100
DEPARTMENT OF ARMY 500
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT- US ARMY 201
FLORIDA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 135.1
MA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 200
NEVADA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 652
"PICATINNY ARSENAL, US ARMY" 187
SHERWIN WILLIAMS; ARMY "1,200.00"
STALEY MOVING/US ARMY VETERAN 688.26
U S ARMY AVIATION ENGINEERING 125
U S ARMY OFFICER 250
UNITED STATES ARMY "2,028.28"
UNITES STATES ARMY 250
US ARMY "34,987.82"
US ARMY (RETIRED) "1,028.76"
US ARMY ACTIVE DUTY "2,300.00"
US ARMY AVIATION ENGINEERING 700
US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS 470
US ARMY CTNG 511
US ARMY ENGINEER CORP 247.76
US ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 100
US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 252.95
US ARMY RESERVE 864.48
"US ARMY RETIRED, CSC" 100
US ARMY TACOM 721.95
"US ARMY VETERAN, WWII" "1,776.00"
US ARMY/WALTON CO 150
UTAH ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 300
VETERAN ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 201

Army Total 56514.26

AIR FORCE 683.45
AIR FORCE VET 400
DOD/AIR FORECE 300.00
NEBRASKA AIR NATIONAL GUARD 320.00
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE "6,047.26"
GEICO (USAF VETERAN) "1,100.00"
RETIRED USAF 250.00
USAF "24,721.05"
USAF RETIRED "1,664.52"
USAF VETERAN "1,067.00"
USAFR [Reserve] 200

Air Force Total "36,753.28"

BCPS - NAVY RESERVE 130
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY "1,638.28"
DEPT OF NAVY "1,700.00"
DOD US NAVY 277.95
DON-DEPARTMENT OF NAVY 265.00
JMP PROMOTIONS/US NAVY RESERVES 300
NAVY "1,800.09"
U S NAVY "4,940.11"
UNITED STATES NAVY "1,532.95"
US NAVY NMCB 133 UNIT 60254 FPO AA 250.00
US NAVY RESERVE 651
US NAVY/DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,475.00"
NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER "1,336.25"
NAVAL ORDNANCE STA "2,300.00"
NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER 123
US NAVAL RESERVE 125

Navy Total "18,844.63"

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS "1,365.00"
US MARINE CORP 296
DOD USMC 566.50
FEDERAL GOVERMENT USMC 500
USMC "1,832.76"
USMC (RET) 125
USMCR [Reserves] 150.00

Marine Corps Total "4,835.26"

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD "1,403.96"
US COAST GUARD 690.00

Coast Guard Total "2,093.96"

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE "3,059.61"
DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,301.00"
DEPT OF DEFENSE & LOCKLHEED 297.04
US DEPT OF DEFENSE "1,700.00"
DOD "1,755.17"
US GOVENMENT DOD "1,000.00"

Department of Defense Total "9,112.82"

MN NATIONAL GUARD 57.5
MONTANA NATIONAL GUARD 470
NATIONAL GUARD 661.11

Unknown Specific Branch Total 1188.61

DISABLED VETERAN 350
DISABLED VIETNAM VET 216
RETIRED - WWII VETERAN 330
RETIRED VET 300
RETIRED VETERAN 116.97
VETERAN 422.54

Veteran Unknown Branch Total 1735.51

Grand Total "131,078.33"

[colecrowe]

bump

send to cafferty, everyone else, drudgereport,

especially the nation and huffington post (they covered it last time)

[colecrowe]

Send it to this Malcolm guy... he ALWAYS writes about Ron Paul.

Send it please. All of us.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/02/news-shocker-ro.html

[PepperdotNet]

Great work all of you. This definitely needs to be made known.

[Lord Xar]

can we just get the finals please.. this is all too complicated...