Donation meter

[libertythor]

Its about time they updated that thermometer. I know...it will probably be automated by tomorrow morning. No use getting impatient.

[MicroBalrog]

Why can't they have live updates like they had with the quill?

[ctb619]

live updates are coming shortly

[libertythor]

They might be holding off on showing realtime donations because that might prompt the other campaigns to find a way to boost numbers. Giuliani upon seeing this could probably grab tons of 2000 dollar donations within 4 days.

Showing it in segments will help it go under the competitor's radar screens. (Imagine if they saw it going up by 120,000 a day, real time like a telethon!) That is probably why the campaign staff is being vague to begin with.

Just a conjecture.

Lets just keep watching the updates and not get discouraged. .....ay..but the impatience!

[theseus51]

They might be holding off on showing realtime donations because that might prompt the other campaigns to find a way to boost numbers. Giuliani upon seeing this could probably grab tons of 2000 dollar donations within 4 days.

Showing it in segments will help it go under the competitor's radar screens. (Imagine if they saw it going up by 120,000 a day, real time like a telethon!) That is probably why the campaign staff is being vague to begin with.

Just a conjecture.

Lets just keep watching the updates and not get discouraged. .....ay..but the impatience!

I guess this could be true, but I doubt Rudy is going to be like "OMG Ron Paul is raising x dollars an hour, let's go to our donors and ask for more money!"

It's probably more likely they only wanna update when they have enough money to warrant a new number. If for some reason it's lagging for an hour or two, it wouldn't look that good. So they only update when they have a lot of money coming in.

[LizF]

Out of curiosity, I checked out a few of the other campaign websites to see if they were doing anything similar.

--Obama, Richardson, Edwards, and Kucinich have end of quarter fundraising pushes in the works this week.

--Richardson's donation meter is a hot pepper.

-- Biden has a donation meter for an ad to be aired in Iowa; I didn't notice one for end of quarter fundraising

[ctb619]

new update....$145,406!

[LizF]

:)

[MicroBalrog]

And now they have live updates! Go-go-Power-Paulbots!

[Tom29]

It is LIVE!!! :D :D :D

Good morning from the Netherlands. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands)

[libertythor]

Yay!!! That was a nice surprise after finishing homework. If I wasn't broke, I would donate right now. There is a 150 dollar donation in the works for the first week of October though.:)

[libertythor]

I refreshed the page a few times; the 25 dollar donations are adding up fast.

1,000,000 X 25 is 25 million

[libertythor]

Its going up by about 100 dollars a minute! Well....this is from eyeing it.

[Man from La Mancha]

:D Hallelujah somebody woke up

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[libertythor]

It slowed down....but people are just waking up.

[ctb619]

I like Ron Paul

[MicroBalrog]

Not to worry people - the campaign raised over a third of the money needed in less then a sixths of the time. If we raise money at half this rate for the entire remaining 5 days and 16 hours, we will still outdo Ron's goal by a wide, wide margin.

[ctb619]

Not to worry people - the campaign raised over a third of the money needed in less then a sixths of the time. If we raise money at half this rate for the entire remaining 5 days and 16 hours, we will still outdo Ron's goal by a wide, wide margin.

over a third? how do you figure?

[libertythor]

Payday is Friday for most. Look for a surge.

[trispear]

over a third? how do you figure?

Not quite a third, but close.

500k * 1/3 = 166.6k

Current total 146k

[libertythor]

Military Donor!!!!!!

Michael Potter with an FPO address! (Indicates that he is probably deployed!)

[TheEvilDetector]

The date at the bottom of the thermometer is wrong.

It is 9/25 not 8/25

[Tom29]

:D Hallelujah somebody woke up

6:45 CT
http://www.time.gov/images/xearths/1S/0N.jpg

[LibertyEagle]

The live update feature is now working, but they keep cycling through the same 7-8 'Recent Donor' names, over and over. It doesn't look so good.

The countdown is off too, isn't it?