Ron Paul has a minimum of 8300 donors

[LastoftheMohicans]

I took the numbers from this link; http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/mapApp.do?drillLevel=US&stateName=&cand_id=P80000748

I apologize if this information has been posted already.
I divided each category total by the largest donation for that category. Feel free to check my numbers but I believe there are at least 8,300 individual donors. I am sure there are a lot more but its hard to say how much.

[Nash]

I checked the list by zip code / state and my name wasn't on the list even though I've gave money in the 2nd quarter. Any idea why?

[LastoftheMohicans]

At first, I though that donors under $200 weren't listed per FEC regulations. But that isn't it. I don't know why. I am not listed either.

[rich34]

My zip wasn't listed either.

[Lord Xar]

I beleive he has a lot more donors than that.. I am a donor and I wasn't mentioned...

[drinkbleach]

I have a feeling that they aren't listing the people who donated under 200 Dollars. My name wasn't up there.

[Delaware]

The funny thing is, only like 4 people from Delaware are listed there, and they raised $5,000. I donated but im not listed.

[j650]

I added up all the states and got $1,651,350 and this is suppose to cover both quarters, so only a little over half seems to be accounted for. Could they not be reporting online numbers yet?

And I added up 20 of Obama's biggest states and came up about $20 million short, and those other states can't possibly make up the difference.

[allyinoh]

I searched as well and am sad to say I'm not on there either...

[purepaloma]

If you give 200 bucks in a SINGLE donation - then all future contributions will be listed.

[empirenine]

RP himself said that MOST of the donations were below $100, meaning there is likely at least twice the 8600, but presumably even more than that.

[jd603]

Strangely, Only one of my donations is listed... ? Maybe one will be rolled over to second quarter?


I thought I gave the second one in time. oh well.

[Exponent]

According to this article, apparently from the Associated Press (http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3787351&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1), they quote Kent Snyder as saying that the average donation is between $55 and $60:

Paul's contributions average $55 to $60 and are largely from individuals, said campaign spokesman Kent Snyder.
If we apply that to the full $3 million, then that means that there were roughly 50,000 to 55,000 donors. A whole heck of a lot more than 8300.

Further speculation, based on the same breakdown of numbers that the OP used, but assuming different averages, results in a total of 52223 donors, with 51452 of them being in the $0 to $200 range, resulting in an average of $27.67 each for that group. This matches well what the quick math above suggests, and also matches what we've been seeing with a lot of people donating ten or twenty dollars at a time.

The assumptions were the following: That the average $200-$499 donation was $400 (if you're going to go over the $200 limit, and thus have to report employer, you're more likely to go well over it, rather than just a little over it). That the average $500-$999 donation was $750 (just picked the average on this one). That the average $1000-$1999 donation was $1250 (a lot of people might have been shooting for that nice round $1000 mark; if you were to go much higher, you're probably more likely to end up donating the max anyway). That the average $2000-$2300 donation was $2200 (guessed that many people in this group maxed out at $2300). And that the average donation overall was $57.50. That last assumption may be bad, since it is likely only for 2nd quarter. But even if so, and the average 1st quarter donation was a lot larger, you'd still have 10s of thousands of donors easily.

[Bradley in DC]

If you give 200 bucks in a SINGLE donation - then all future contributions will be listed.

Nice try, that would be money laundering of a sort to try to hide the support. It's $200 in any combination.