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sailingaway
05-06-2011, 09:33 AM
http://www.nationaljournal.com/dailyfray/ron-paul-raised-1-million-overnight-20110506

Pretty dismissive of Ron, but the headline is nice.

HOLLYWOOD
05-06-2011, 09:40 AM
The libertarian Paul has a deeply devoted, well-organized fan base, which showed up in large numbers for the debate and cheered loudly as Paul declared he'd pull out of Afghanistan, abolish the Federal Reserve, let people do heroin if they want to and marry the same sex if that's their thing. In other words, Paul is very, very unlikely to win the Republican nomination. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

And yet the money is pouring in. The Republican's more mainstream candidates, however, have been having their share of fundraising woes.

President Obama aims to raise $1 billion (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/04/barack-obama-re-election-run) for his 2012 reelection campaign, well above his record-breaking $750,000,000 in donations in 2008. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, an establishment candidate, decided not to run last month in part because he doubted he could match Obama's fundraising pace. "He's going to have $100 million in the bank before any of the Republican candidates catch their breath," one of Barbour's advisers told NBC News' Michael Isikoff (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42764804/ns/today-today_news/).

smartguy911
05-06-2011, 09:44 AM
Damn $1 billion and here I am excited over $1 million.