Campaign adds offline donations -- 11.355 million thus far!

[brumans]

Campaign adds offline donations -- 11.355 million thus far!

http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com

[Jobarra]

I guess it was offline donations. Is there a minibomb going on :D

Last I looked it was 10.85M or so.

[OptionsTrader]

Think we'll made the Q3 goal of 12 million :D

December 16th is going to be awesome.

[Revolutn]

Sweeet.

[wsc321]

Dittos... what happened?! :)

[brumans]

I think we may have a chance of raising 20 million this quarter... that would be, as Wolf Blitzer says "truly amazing"

[BLS]

Hey we'll take a half million!!!

[raystone]

yes !

[asmartchimp]

Nice!

[Jobarra]

Too bad they didn't wait until tomorrow so we could beat Huckabee's bomb without actually donating :D

[Chernitsky]

http://smiliesftw.com/x/xmasbowdown.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)

[Chibioz]

Wow, as of right now we are $644,292.38 from 12 million. At the beginning of the 4th quarter, even in my most optimistic expectations I didn't think we would be doing as good as we are doing now.

[Jordan]

Wow, as of right now we are $644,292.38 from 12 million. At the beginning of the 4th quarter, even in my most optimistic expectations I didn't think we would be doing as good as we are doing now.

And the teaparty coming up.

[idiom]

pity it didn't wait till the morning of the 16th...

Ah well.

[derdy]

To be honest, after failing to 'fill the quill' one time, I thought, "No way we're getting $12 mil."

Now, with the 16th yet to come, it appears we are going to utterly destroy that goal!:eek:

[brumans]

You know, a few days ago I went on ronpaulgraphs.com and right when I went for it, just for like a fraction of a second I seriously say 32 as the front number (32,000,000 something), then it went back to normal. Maybe I saw a glimpse of the future... but that just seems like a ridiculously high number. Hmm... now that I write it might be what the total donations will be for all the quarters... maybe I am psychic! We will see :p

[AlexMerced]

yeah, honestly I was very skeptical about 12mil before nov 5th... wow... pat on the back to all of you

[PatriotOne]

That's a great haul for off-line donations. Anyone remember when they were aded the last time? A week ago? Two weeks ago?

[Jobarra]

I have no problems believing a 20M quarter right now, but I was thinking we would do that back when we were at 9M. I truly don't know what to think now other than that the teaparty is going to be WAY more successful than I am thinking. I'm thinking 11.7M, but I would love to be surprised.

[Johnnybags]

he only has 5 percent in the polls? Hucks got 32? Either we are incredibly wealthy donors or Huck is drawing pennies from the entire population of Arkansas? Something is rotten in Denmark, methinks its the polls. No such thing has ever happened in history. Never let the Pravda brigade snow you.

[LibertyEagle]

One of the things we have in our favor is that now, Americans living abroad can donate. I would imagine there are quite a few who will do so on 12/16. I sure hope so. December 16 needs to blow everyone's minds away. In my opinion, this is make it or break it day.

Keep spreading the word.

[dirka]

Holy Crapola! I just noticed that too, It was at around $10.8 million, then SNAP! it jumped to $11.4!!!

It must be divine intervention telling us that HUCKABEE doesn't have a prayer!!!

[Visual]

To be honest, after failing to 'fill the quill' one time, I thought, "No way we're getting $12 mil."

Now, with the 16th yet to come, it appears we are going to utterly destroy that goal!:eek:

I remember thinking getting another 5 mil would be tough. Little did I know we were going to double 3rd quarter in 2 months, nearly raising 5 mil in 2 days.

[Jimmy]

Well the campaign said they needed 12 MILLION TO WIN....Well..WIN!! :D:D

[user]

I'm with the others who thought $12 million was a little optimistic. I'm happy to be wrong about that.

[user]

The Tea Party combined with final Q4 fundraising numbers should make it very difficult for the MSM to continue ignoring us.

[mmarcman22]

Awesome! Where ever the additional money came from, lets find some more!

[trey4sports]

the polls are not rigged, thats my personal belief. however i know they dont capture but about 1/3 or so of Dr. Pauls base. they only call registered republicans who have voted before. this doesnt include recent ex-dems who change teams, new young republicans, indepents, those who have never voted, and all of these make up dr. pauls base. so a nat'l poll or even a local poll really (and i know its cliche) means very little.

[Jobarra]

The Tea Party combined with final Q4 fundraising numbers should make it very difficult for the MSM to continue ignoring us.
I'm hoping you won't be surprised if they do.

That's okay though(well, not okay, but this makes me feel better :D ). With all the grassroots support that Dr. Paul gets, I have no doubt that he has actually raised more 'money' than all the other candidates.

[conner_condor]

RP graphs needs updated here.

[rasheedwallace]

so great.

[szczebrzeszyn]

You know, a few days ago I went on ronpaulgraphs.com and right when I went for it, just for like a fraction of a second I seriously say 32 as the front number (32,000,000 something), then it went back to normal. Maybe I saw a glimpse of the future...
32,123,456.78

[Ron Paul Fan]

We will raise $20 million this quarter and SHOCK THE WORLD on DECEMBER 16TH and when the official FEC numbers come out in early January. Huckabee will raise 1/4th-1/3rd of what we do! We will be #1 in fundraising among Republicans this quarter, and #3 overall behind Hillary and Obama! And our money is raised mainly by ordinary people! Go Ron Paul!

[Jobarra]

Each quarter has grown by about 400%. Imagine if he had two years to do this :D

[Henry]

You know, a few days ago I went on ronpaulgraphs.com and right when I went for it, just for like a fraction of a second I seriously say 32 as the front number (32,000,000 something), then it went back to normal. Maybe I saw a glimpse of the future... but that just seems like a ridiculously high number. Hmm... now that I write it might be what the total donations will be for all the quarters... maybe I am psychic! We will see :p


I saw the same thing several times. I'm not making a call on this one, but however I saw it a bunch of times. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

[Menthol Patch]

We can raise ten million on the Tea Party, a couple million more by the end of the month and end up with 24 million dollars!!!

[shepburn]

I think we may have a chance of raising 20 million this quarter... that would be, as Wolf Blitzer says "truly amazing"

of course we do! I'm convinced that the 16th will blow us all away! Just look at how little has been raise during the last week. It's the calm before the hurricane!

We've have grown so much since Nov 5th. Everyone will want to be apart of history!

I'm going to go out on a limb and project we will hit $20M for the Q before the sun goes down in the east coast on the 16th!

[user]

I'm hoping you won't be surprised if they do.

That's okay though(well, not okay, but this makes me feel better :D ). With all the grassroots support that Dr. Paul gets, I have no doubt that he has actually raised more 'money' than all the other candidates.
I wouldn't be, that's why I said "difficult". :D

[Goldwater Conservative]

he only has 5 percent in the polls? Hucks got 32? Either we are incredibly wealthy donors or Huck is drawing pennies from the entire population of Arkansas? Something is rotten in Denmark, methinks its the polls. No such thing has ever happened in history. Never let the Pravda brigade snow you.

He gets by far the greatest percentage of funds raised from <$200 donations and by far the least from >$2000 donations, and that includes Huckleberry. I think the polls understate Paul's real level of support for a number of reasons, but I think the biggest difference between him and the rest is that his supporters will turn out in greater percentages, which I think the amount of donors would attest to (I can't wait to see what the Q4 figures are).

[Troyhand]

Huckabuck: Hello God?
God: Yes, Michael. (click-clickety-click-click-click)
Huckabuck: I told everyone you endorse me for President.
God: Uh-huh. (clickety-click-clickety-click-click-click)
Huckabuck: I know it was wrong, but that Paul guy is making noise and I need to do something to reassure my flock.
God: Uh-huh. (click-clickety-clickety-click-click-clickety)
Huckabuck: You still love me, don't you God?
God: I love all my children. Goodbye, Michael, (click-clickety-click-click....CLICK)
Huckabuck: bye.
.......
Operator: Thank you, God, for your donation of half a million dollars to RonPaul2008. Please check your email for a receipt. Have a wonderful day.
God: And you as well, my child.

[Buzz]

Lol

[MadViking10]

nevermind

[parke]

One of the things we have in our favor is that now, Americans living abroad can donate. I would imagine there are quite a few who will do so on 12/16. I sure hope so. December 16 needs to blow everyone's minds away. In my opinion, this is make it or break it day.

Keep spreading the word.

Im with you 100%. If we dont beat the talking heads expectations that we will just go away, the MSM certainly will bury us.

If we blow it out of the water, it will solidify Paul for the nomination. Imagine the headlines after the quarter.. when we outraise EVERY GOP candidate.. (combined)

And we gots a blimp!!!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

[RCA]

The question now is how close to 12 million can we get BEFORE the Tea Party?

[mrd]

Well the campaign said they needed 12 MILLION TO WIN....Well..WIN!! :D:D
FTW!!!

[JustAnotherV]

My head hurts. I saw this and thought it had jumped but then got dizzy becasue I couldn't remeber the numbers from earlier today. This graph seems to thing we've been at this level for a few days:

http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/full_quarter.html

[Chibioz]

The offline donations inflate the bottom of the graph so there is no way to tell what time they were added from the graph

[akalucas]

Historically does anyone know how well candidates do in donations in 4th quarter compared to 3rd quarter?

[constitutional]

I hope we hit $20 million this 16th. :)

[Naraku]

There should be a goal of reaching $11.5 million before December 16th.

That way $12 million can be beat in the first hour of the 16th. After that it will be nothing but gravy.

[Dan D.]

Historically does anyone know how well candidates do in donations in 4th quarter compared to 3rd quarter?
Better, but I'm not sure by how much. Q3 is usually the worst. That said, we're above everyone's last quarter numbers before the 16th, so if the competition has a mediocre quarter, we could end up on top.

[JustAnotherV]

[QUOTE=parke;579511]Imagine the headlines after the quarter.. when we outraise EVERY GOP candidate.. (combined)
QUOTE]


With the exception of Romney donating himself into the lead again, I'm reasonably sure ~ 15 Mil will top any GOP candidate.

We need a new goal:

Try to outraise HILLARY AND OBAMA.

[JustAnotherV]

The offline donations inflate the bottom of the graph so there is no way to tell what time they were added from the graph


It all makes sense now. ;) :P

[BlueGecko]

Ha ha here comes 25 million for the quarter

[Hurricane Bruiser]

Let the newbies who find Ron Paul add to his funds between now and the 16th. We need to make the 16th memorable. I wonder how many donors we will actually have? I'll be in a Executive Committee all day and so will miss out on watching the money flow in. :( I can't wait.

[MooCowzRock]

Haha, I got on the main website and I was like "Holy shit where did we get 500k from all of a sudden!!"

[KramerDSP]

I'm with you. $25 Million Dollars is where we'll be at on January 1, 2008. We'll break the 12 Million "to win" thermometer, thus setting off fireworks for 24 hours on the site, as the number goes higher and higher and higher. I say we get 11 million dollars for the tea party, and then $750,000 the day after that, bringing us to $23,259,000.00 on December 18 with 12 days left to get the extra 1.75 million.

In Q1, 640k was raised. In Q2, 2.4 Million. In Q3, 5.2 million dollars. And in Q4, 25 million dollars. :eek:

He's catchin' on, I'm telling ya! :D

[Troyhand]

I'd like to know the tread for offline donations. How long did it take to collect this half million? How often do they post these amounts to the website meter? When was the last time they added offline donations to the meter?
If this half mill came in the last few weeks. That means the people who aren't regularly online are beginning to hear about Dr. Paul and like what he's saying. This would be a great indicator on how well the grassroots effort is paying off. The word is spreading!

[MGreen]

Wow, that is a great bump in fundraising. It's encouraging to know that Paul's fundraising is growing in terms of more traditional means, and not just on the internet.

[FreedomProsperityPeace]

Will the campaign know how to spend that much money that fast? :D

[Richandler]

Will the campaign know how to spend that much money that fast? :D

It's all in the timing.

[Jobarra]

It's all in the timing.
The sad thing is how much money the Democrats have on hand. The Republicans have been spending left and right except for Paul. If I remember correctly, Obama and Hillary have at least about 30M onhand EACH. I didn't remember to look, but this might just be general election money. On the other hand, those are both significant figures to have in reserve.

Edit to add: okay, opensecrets.org shows Hillary at 50M cash ONHAND. Obama has 36M. This is I guess at the end of Q3. I wonder what all of this is going to look like at the end of Q4.

[murrayrothbard]

In Q1, 640k was raised. In Q2, 2.4 Million. In Q3, 5.2 million dollars. And in Q4, 25 million dollars. :eek:

He's catchin' on, I'm telling ya! :D

Well in that case I hope we are looking at $625 million for Q1 2008!!! :D

[Liberty Star]

I guess it was offline donations. Is there a minibomb going on :D

Last I looked it was 10.85M or so.

I thought it was another money grenade day quietly :)


This is going to provide a nice launch pad for Dec 16 tea party revolt.

[BlutStein]

Best campaign ad ever is if they used our "surplus" to pay down some government interest so that the government could save even more money down the line. I'm just talking out my *bleep* here and don't really know how that'd work, but it'd show that our government's problems aren't partisan issues and things have to be addressed.

That or he could buy a bunch of bullet proof vests for our troops saying "I'm trying to bring you home but in the mean time I'll try to keep you alive".

Maybe good, maybe bad...but the one thing that I know for sure is that I'm tired.

[Mark Rushmore]

That or he could buy a bunch of bullet proof vests for our troops saying "I'm trying to bring you home but in the mean time I'll try to keep you alive".

Not half bad.

[Jobarra]

Ugh, looking at opensecrets I see how hard it is to take on an incumbent. My representative for 2006:
http://opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00025330&cycle=2006

33% of his money was from business PACs? He got around $1M total cash. His Democrat opponent only got 14K? Dang. And he apparently starts his 08 campaign with the 362K he had leftover. Yeesh. No wonder incumbants are so hard to get out. I'm guessing we'll need to continue to fund raise across the country for local campaigns if we want to change the makeup of the Senate and the House :(

Edit to Add: We really need to focus at first on getting like 10-12 "Ron Paul" candidates into the House and get them on a committee. Then you can actually get bills out of committee I would think and "constitutional" Representatives would have no excuses for bills that make it out of committee to get approved. If they refuse it, it gives ammo for more candidates who are truly working for the Constitution to replace those who only give the Constitution a slight glance before trouncing over it.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Too bad they didn't wait until tomorrow so we could beat Huckabee's bomb without actually donating :D

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[RevolutionSD]

I'm with you. $25 Million Dollars is where we'll be at on January 1, 2008. We'll break the 12 Million "to win" thermometer, thus setting off fireworks for 24 hours on the site, as the number goes higher and higher and higher. I say we get 11 million dollars for the tea party, and then $750,000 the day after that, bringing us to $23,259,000.00 on December 18 with 12 days left to get the extra 1.75 million.

In Q1, 640k was raised. In Q2, 2.4 Million. In Q3, 5.2 million dollars. And in Q4, 25 million dollars. :eek:

He's catchin' on, I'm telling ya! :D

Can we PLEASE get some more blimps for this $25M?

[Highstreet]

he only has 5 percent in the polls? Hucks got 32? Either we are incredibly wealthy donors or Huck is drawing pennies from the entire population of Arkansas? Something is rotten in Denmark, methinks its the polls. No such thing has ever happened in history. Never let the Pravda brigade snow you.

RP HQ should offer the first Investigative Journalist to find out the answer to this $1 Mill of the War Chest.

[Libertarian]

Why doesn't the campaign update their donation goals for the year on the website? 12 million will be passed within 1 hour on December 16th, and I'm afraid when more casual people check out his site to see what the hype is about, they will figure "Heck, he has already met his goal for the year...He doesn't need my $$". And they won't donate...or they may only give $10 instead of $100.

12 million is history. We should be aiming for 20 million!

[boondoggle]

Why doesn't the campaign update their donation goals for the year on the website? 12 million will be passed within 1 hour on December 16th, and I'm afraid when more casual people check out his site to see what the hype is about, they will figure "Heck, he has already met his goal for the year...He doesn't need my $$". And they won't donate...or they may only give $10 instead of $100.

12 million is history. We should be aiming for 20 million!

Agree, agree, agree, agree.

[user]

Why doesn't the campaign update their donation goals for the year on the website? 12 million will be passed within 1 hour on December 16th, and I'm afraid when more casual people check out his site to see what the hype is about, they will figure "Heck, he has already met his goal for the year...He doesn't need my $$". And they won't donate...or they may only give $10 instead of $100.

12 million is history. We should be aiming for 20 million!
I hope they change it or at least add to it as soon as $12 million is reached.

[lawdida]

We can raise ten million on the Tea Party, a couple million more by the end of the month and end up with 24 million dollars!!!

This is what I want to see, double the goal. I think we can do 20 but I'm not sure about 24. That would be a lot in one month (most of it coming after the 15th). I hope it happens though!

[louisiana4liberty]

I agree.

That 12 million dollar mark on the bar needs to be lowered. 12 million will be crushed very quickly...we need to start shooting for 20 million. The stakes are getting high and we are too close to the first primaries to set our targets too low.

[michaelwise]

It was probably the Stephanopolas contribution, conceding the election.

[axiomata]

I hope they change it or at least add to it as soon as $12 million is reached.
I'm sure they will, hopefully the day before the Tea Party.

[Jobarra]

Guys, by the time the 'stragglers' come in, the total will probably be around $15-16M. I think any reasonable person who sees that will say "Holy Cow, they're blowing the target out of the water! I need to donate!"

[Falseflagop]

12 mil right around the corner

[NewEnd]

duplicate
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=51839

:)

[Pete Kay]

When Monday the 17th comes around we will be at 18 million or higher. Think about how good that will feel. :D

[Tedhunter]

How long had those offline donations been piling up?

[Cyclone]

And why the heck didn't they wait until the 16th to dump it in?

[Liberty Star]

Why doesn't the campaign update their donation goals for the year on the website? 12 million will be passed within 1 hour on December 16th, and I'm afraid when more casual people check out his site to see what the hype is about, they will figure "Heck, he has already met his goal for the year...He doesn't need my $$". And they won't donate...or they may only give $10 instead of $100.

12 million is history. We should be aiming for 20 million!

Saying that RP raised $X Millions above the target $12 Million is a great story. Let it go off charts.

Exceed the goals, set new mental goal perhaps.

[Naraku]

I don't think anyone's going to give up after $12 million is reached.

I also don't think it's going to stop at $18 million. Watch for $30 million I'm serious. November 5th saw twice as many donors as pledges and I think this time it's going to be even more extreme. I'm think three times as many people at least, maybe four times. There's also going to be a large amount being spent because more money is being saved up.

One way to think of it:

30,000 pledges.

$4.38 million raised on November 5th with 18,000 pledges.

18 days to prepare for November 5th.

39 days to prepare for December 16th.

About 1.6 times as many pledges and 2.16 times as many days. That's around $15 million right there, not considering the possibility of twice as many unpledged donors in relation to pledges. I think four times as much on November 5th isn't unrealistic and $20 million is a distinct possibility.

[weagle]

And why the heck didn't they wait until the 16th to dump it in?

According to the charts it only counts toward the day it was received by the campaign, not the day it was added to the online total.

So if they would have dumped that money on the 16th it would be an artificial inflation that would not be truly representative of 16th donations.

[Paulitician]

It still would have been a great morale booster.

[voisine]

Edit to add: okay, opensecrets.org shows Hillary at 50M cash ONHAND. Obama has 36M. This is I guess at the end of Q3. I wonder what all of this is going to look like at the end of Q4.

I bet RP isn't so far off if you subtract what it would cost either of those two to duplicate the efforts of the grassroots. What would it cost them to hire 100,000 part time volunteers?

[Jobarra]

Oh I agree. I made that point in another thread somewhere. All of this unpaid support is probably worth more than what the other candidates have pulled in. TV/radio ads are nice, but if you have just 1,000 dedicated workers stomping the ground for you in a state, you WILL have more votes. I don't see the other candidates having anywhere near the money to pay that many people to do it in each state.

[libertythor]

One of the things we have in our favor is that now, Americans living abroad can donate. I would imagine there are quite a few who will do so on 12/16. I sure hope so. December 16 needs to blow everyone's minds away. In my opinion, this is make it or break it day.

Keep spreading the word.

I am an American living abroad and have donated since September. ME becomes "Mexico". LOL On the website, I have seen Tokyo, IN and Helsinki, FL. LMAO IN would be a substitute for "International" I guess.


But it is nice that they allow the fields to be filled properly now.

[robert4rp08]

Ahhhh, I knew there had to be a huge jump... or that my memory had failed me.