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12-17-2007, 10:46 PM
TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP -- His presidential-hopeful brother just raised more money in a single day than John Kerry did after he won his Party's nomination in 2004.
David Paul calls it "mind-boggling."
"It's something that nobody expected," he told 24 Hour News 8. "I know he didn't."
"He" is Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). His campaign raised $6.2 million Sunday - all online. It's a sum so large even the candidate is asking questions.
"Do we have enough time to harness this momentum and all this money coming in?" Ron Paul said Monday. "Can we figure out the best way to spend the money in order to get the vote out?"
Ron Paul's campaign says the average donation was about $50.
"He doesn't have all the $2,300 donors that some of the other ones get. I haven't sent him $2,000 yet," David Paul said, laughing.
The two grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ron Paul went to Texas to serve in the Air Force; David went to Ohio, then Michigan to be a pastor. David now works part-time at a Grand Rapids-area Lutheran church.
Ron Paul told his brother he never thought he'd still be in the race at this point. The donors have kept him in.
So what has kept those donors reaching into their wallets and reaching out to the campaign?
"I think less government really resonates with people," David Paul said.
That small-government, Libertarian philosophy is at the center of Paul's campaign, along with the connected issues of less spending and trade. The congressman's campaign has also centered on Iraq.
"I don't think it's a mismanaged war," Ron Paul said Monday. "I think it's a war we shouldn't have gone into. You can't manage a bad war."
That unique combination of views has donors flocking, but in most polls Paul remains in the single digits.
So can Ron Paul win?
"I don't think there's anything that can't happen," David Paul said. "This is a time in which I think there's great change going to take place. More change than we can imagine, because I think there's a real dissatisfaction with the way things are going."
Ron Paul has told his brother more money, of course, gives him a better shot at the presidency.
Paul could finish first or second in the Republican fundraising race for the last three months of the year. But he finished fifth among Republicans during the first nine months of the year.
Michigan native Mitt Romney raised $63 million to top that list.
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David Paul calls it "mind-boggling."
"It's something that nobody expected," he told 24 Hour News 8. "I know he didn't."
"He" is Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). His campaign raised $6.2 million Sunday - all online. It's a sum so large even the candidate is asking questions.
"Do we have enough time to harness this momentum and all this money coming in?" Ron Paul said Monday. "Can we figure out the best way to spend the money in order to get the vote out?"
Ron Paul's campaign says the average donation was about $50.
"He doesn't have all the $2,300 donors that some of the other ones get. I haven't sent him $2,000 yet," David Paul said, laughing.
The two grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ron Paul went to Texas to serve in the Air Force; David went to Ohio, then Michigan to be a pastor. David now works part-time at a Grand Rapids-area Lutheran church.
Ron Paul told his brother he never thought he'd still be in the race at this point. The donors have kept him in.
So what has kept those donors reaching into their wallets and reaching out to the campaign?
"I think less government really resonates with people," David Paul said.
That small-government, Libertarian philosophy is at the center of Paul's campaign, along with the connected issues of less spending and trade. The congressman's campaign has also centered on Iraq.
"I don't think it's a mismanaged war," Ron Paul said Monday. "I think it's a war we shouldn't have gone into. You can't manage a bad war."
That unique combination of views has donors flocking, but in most polls Paul remains in the single digits.
So can Ron Paul win?
"I don't think there's anything that can't happen," David Paul said. "This is a time in which I think there's great change going to take place. More change than we can imagine, because I think there's a real dissatisfaction with the way things are going."
Ron Paul has told his brother more money, of course, gives him a better shot at the presidency.
Paul could finish first or second in the Republican fundraising race for the last three months of the year. But he finished fifth among Republicans during the first nine months of the year.
Michigan native Mitt Romney raised $63 million to top that list.
Includes video!
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7510569
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7510569
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7510569