Paul Dallas Fundraiser Last Night = $102,000

[Johnnybags]

Watch out Mitt and Rudy!!!!!!

The single most-successful fundraiser of the Ron Paul 2008 campaign took place last night in Highland Park, Texas (Dallas). The event was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Huffines.

The Huffines family opened their beautiful home and graciously hosted many supporters of Dr. Paul's. The evening ended with $102,000 donated to Dr. Paul's presidential campaign!

Kent SnyderChairman, Ron Paul 2008

[Cowlesy]

God Bless those heavyhitting Texans (and all those who came from out-of-state)!

[quickmike]

wow............. thats like almost 1/2 of Rons 1st quarter totals. VERY NICE

Ill come down and mow their lawn for free, shine the mans shoes and paint the misses toenails just to say thanks.

[Slugg]

God Bless 'em

[ChristopherJ]

Wow this is amazing! I wonder if this included what he made from the rally in FW? He said the night ended with 102k, but he kind of implies he made that just in Highland Park?

I was at the rally last night and there were well over 1k who attended. There was a small auction and a guy bought a rifle for around 7500 and another guy bought a framed constitution signed by RP for 2500.

[FluffyUnbound]

http://unofficial-ronpaul2008blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/successful-fundraiser.html

SNAP!

Maybe the crazy numbers people are throwing around in the Meetup competition guessing threads aren't so crazy after all.

[FluffyUnbound]

http://unofficial-ronpaul2008blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/successful-fundraiser.html

SNAP!

Maybe the crazy numbers people are throwing around in the Meetup competition guessing threads aren't so crazy after all.

Sorry, there's a typo in the title. It's actually $102,000, not $108,000. Typing too fast in my excitement, and now I can't edit the title.

[V-rod]

I laugh at the people who still believes he will raise under 2.5 mil this quarter. HA!

[Cowlesy]

$102,000 at that private fundraiser plus contributions for the Meetup competition that were made yesterday ---- a total of a $200,000 I'd estimate. I really think the Meetup competition knocked it out of the park.

[FluffyUnbound]

I laugh at the people who still believes he will raise under 2.5 mil this quarter. HA!


Sorry, apparently this is a duplicate thread. If someone could close it I would appreciate it.

[torchbearer]

Digg here: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Successful_Fundraiser_for_Ron_Paul

[JosephTheLibertarian]

gosh. I wonder how much it's gonna be :D

[jonahtrainer]

http://unofficial-ronpaul2008blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/successful-fundraiser.html

SNAP!

Maybe the crazy numbers people are throwing around in the Meetup competition guessing threads aren't so crazy after all.

I know we are planning a $50k fund raiser for next month.

[Johnnybags]

When all is said and done I suspect the meetup drive in 10 days was more around 1/2 million. The real good thing is the early diehard support has sprouted wings and now John Q is beginning to look at the race. Funding should grow into the fall in a healthy manner. As will the offbalance sheet grassroots spending. I suspect it is worth almost as much or more than the actual contributions to the campaign.

[TheEvilDetector]

I think Ron Paul will pull in excess of $3M this quarter alone.

[torchbearer]

DIGG HERE: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Successful_Fundraiser_for_Ron_Paul

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I remember the campaign said it received like $75,000 in one day :lol: and that was a while ago, so I can only imagine how much he has at this time. Do you think the campaign knows how much it has?

[Slugg]

I think Ron Paul will pull in excess of $3M this quarter alone.

I think that may be conservative. I think Ron Paul's support has gone through the roof since last quarter. I would be very surprised to see anything less than 5 mil, but I'm not a political analyst, so don't read too much into what I say.

But, a note, if you look at how many fund-raisers he's had this quarter compared to last quarter, look at how many grassroots fund-raisers there have been, and how many new people have been introduced to him; I think we'll make last quarters numbers look like small.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

I think we'll hit double digits. Ron Paul has said it himself, "donations all day long" well, paraphrasing, but he did say that it's non stop.

[Slugg]

I think we'll hit double digits

I tend to think so also; but then again I'm biased...heh. So I chop my estimate in half and go with that.

[jonahtrainer]

When all is said and done I suspect the meetup drive in 10 days was more around 1/2 million. The real good thing is the early diehard support has sprouted wings and now John Q is beginning to look at the race. Funding should grow into the fall in a healthy manner. As will the offbalance sheet grassroots spending. I suspect it is worth almost as much or more than the actual contributions to the campaign.

The grassroots support is worth its weight in gold. Think about the VOI (Votes On Investment) ratio. I would bet Ron Paul's VOI is 1,000-2,000x any other candidate's except maybe Obama. For traditional campaigns it is expensive to actually get someone to the voting box.

Oftentimes, the grassroots are more effective at garnering votes than anything the national campaign could do. I know our Meetup Groups are very effective at receiving new members and training them in what to do. Most Meetups have people who do not know what they are doing. While passionate they are like a cross-eyed javelin athlete and keep the crowd as alert!

Next Sat. our Meetup is having a training with Anita Andrews from the national campaign on guerrilla campaigning. As the Meetups around the country get trained this campaign is going to kick into high gear. In addition, each Meetup is a campaign in itself for anyone who may want to run in their local elections (I am already seriously considering it).

The Constitution will not be saved in Washington. If it is to be saved at all it will be in the hearts and minds of the American People. There is a lot of goodness in America we just needed a little jolt. I think the picture is appropriate. The Freedom Tiger has been let out of the bag .... this is exciting!

http://ronpaulblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/paulheart_dees.jpg

[foofighter20x]

Some one said this is a duplicate... Link me the other thread and I'll merge them.

Please? :)

[TheEvilDetector]

When all is said and done I suspect the meetup drive in 10 days was more around 1/2 million. The real good thing is the early diehard support has sprouted wings and now John Q is beginning to look at the race. Funding should grow into the fall in a healthy manner. As will the offbalance sheet grassroots spending. I suspect it is worth almost as much or more than the actual contributions to the campaign.

I did some calculations, based on the final leaderboard and assuming the bottom group donated $20 for each of its 117 members, the total is $180K.

So this fundraiser and the leaderboard at minimum raised $282K for Ron Paul.

[foofighter20x]

Sorry, there's a typo in the title. It's actually $102,000, not $108,000. Typing too fast in my excitement, and now I can't edit the title.

Fixed.

[foofighter20x]

Nevermind. Found it. :p

[Johnnybags]

I did some calculations, based on the final leaderboard and assuming the bottom group donated $20 for each of its 117 members, the total is $180K.

So this fundraiser and the leaderboard at minimum raised $282K for Ron Paul.

I say the top is over 30k, they did 8k in one day recently. Late donations and all the other under top 25 meetups easily gets more than that but we will see. around 5k members in top 25 groups not counting unnofficial members donating under the meetup #. I'll guess 60 bucks a head or 300k minimum from top 25 alone.

[csen]

I think that may be conservative. I think Ron Paul's support has gone through the roof since last quarter. I would be very surprised to see anything less than 5 mil, but I'm not a political analyst, so don't read too much into what I say.

But, a note, if you look at how many fund-raisers he's had this quarter compared to last quarter, look at how many grassroots fund-raisers there have been, and how many new people have been introduced to him; I think we'll make last quarters numbers look like small.

I totally agree -- as I recall just assuming Q3 fundraising is at the same pace as June we'd be looking at $3.5-4mln. We're holding fundraisers for Dr. Paul in the Bay Area in a couple weeks that we hope to raise a lot of money at, and I think we're getting close to another period of strong growth with the TX Straw Poll today, the debate on Wednesday and college kids getting back in school and spreading the word like wildfire amongst themselves and their parents. I'm hoping for $8mln but would be content with anything over $5mln.

[SeanEdwards]

Does anyone know when the FEC filing date is for Q3? When will we know conclusively how much was raised?

[Slugg]

Does anyone know when the FEC filing date is for Q3? When will we know conclusively how much was raised?

Oct 15 is when the reports will be made public.

[stevedasbach]

I think we'll hit double digits. Ron Paul has said it himself, "donations all day long" well, paraphrasing, but he did say that it's non stop.

Double digits is highly unlikely (but not impossible).

The campaign likely raised about $1.2 M in June. If that rate continued, the campaign would raise $3.6 M third quarter.

They recently announced that their "best day" was $75,000. If they averaged that amount every day of the quarter, they would raise about $6.7 M.

They raised $102,000 at last night's fundraiser. Averaging that amount over the quarter (which would require averaging a lot more than that in September) would get them close to $10 M.

I suspect the total will be over $5M, but how much over will depend on how well September goes.

[Slugg]

Double digits is highly unlikely (but not impossible).

The campaign likely raised about $1.2 M in June. If that rate continued, the campaign would raise $3.6 M third quarter.

They recently announced that their "best day" was $75,000. If they averaged that amount every day of the quarter, they would raise about $6.7 M.

They raised $102,000 at last night's fundraiser. Averaging that amount over the quarter (which would require averaging a lot more than that in September) would get them close to $10 M.

I suspect the total will be over $5M, but how much over will depend on how well September goes.

I thought 75,000 was their best day online. Meaning, they may have earned more offline. Though, I could be wrong. The only place I ever heard the 75000 number was on these boards. Where did that number come from?

[quickmike]

I thought 75,000 was their best day online. Meaning, they may have earned more offline. Though, I could be wrong. The only place I ever heard the 75000 number was on these boards. Where did that number come from?

That came from ronpaul2008.com a while back.

[Cowlesy]

I thought 75,000 was their best day online. Meaning, they may have earned more offline. Though, I could be wrong. The only place I ever heard the 75000 number was on these boards. Where did that number come from?

Ron Paul mentioned it himself at the Iowa Strawpoll.

[Brasil Branco]

Wow, that is some fantastic news! Can't wait for the Q3 results :D

[Slugg]

Ron Paul mentioned it himself at the Iowa Strawpoll.

I saw him say it was the best day ever, I didn't catch the 75,000 number though. I believe it, just never knew where it came from.

[ghemminger]

wow this in encouraging -

[Cowlesy]

Alright I threw a quick'n dirty model together to look at the Top 25 Leaderboard of the Meetup Competition. I used 2 simple assumptions to determine results 1) 25th Place Fundraising Total 2) Final Day % Surge in Donation Growth

I estimate that if we raised no money whatsoever on the last day, and 25th Place donated $1.00, the total donations for the Top 25 would equal $122,405.00.

If 25th Place raised $250, and there was a flat 5% donation surge across all groups on the final day, the Top 25 Total is estimated at - $134,933.82; 10% - $141,225.48; 20% - $153,772.32

If 25th Place raised $500, and there was a flat 5% donation surge across all groups on the final day, the TOp 25 Total is - $141,496.32; 10% - 148,100.48; 20% - $161,272.32

If 25th Place raised $1,000, and there was a flat 5% donation surge across all groups on the final day, the Top 25 Total is estimated to be - $154,621.32; 10% - $161,850.48; 20% - $176,272.32

If 25th Place raised $2,300, and there was a flat 5% donation surge across all groups on the final day, the Top 25 Total is estimated to be - $188,746.32; 10% - $197,600.48; 20% - $215,272.32

If 25th Place raised $4,600, and there was a flat 5% donation surge across all groups on the final day, the Top 25 Total is estimated to be - $249,121.32; 10% - $260,850.48; 20% - $284,272.32.

Note that at the $4,600 amount and 20% donation surge, Livingston with 2 members listed would have raised $6,632.40 --- now they could have many more people sign up between now and when the 2 people were listed, or they could have received donations from other groups -- not just the 2 members.

If anyone has better estimates about last place, or a definitive number on Livingston, I could tweak the model and see what it kicks out.

Thanks

[MsDoodahs]

When does this quarter end?

[Slugg]

When does this quarter end?

Sept 31. Get in every penny before that day.

[bbachtung]

Sept 31. Get in every penny before that day.

There are only 30 days in September.

[Cowlesy]

Hmm if you wanted to game the system and start a meetup group, and only sign up 2 members to win the $'s/donors ratio--under the assumption that Livingston with 2 members listed actually had the minimum donations to win that category ($11,500), the Top 25 would have raised $386,218.60.

[Zydeco]

Save your millions for later in the game, Ron! We're all happily emptying our bank accounts to get you elected :D