Posted on 09/26/2007 9:00:10 AM PDT by pianomikey
The rise of the baby bundlers — people who ask friends and family to donate for a candidate and then direct the money to the campaign — is adding a face-to-face dimension to tactics used in 2004 to spur an explosion of Internet donations.
The influx of these new players, combined with unorthodox appeals by the candidates, also is fundamentally reshaping the parties’ donor bases.
The surprising end result could be that the Democratic nominee will buck historic trends and have a significant financial edge in a cycle when the nominees alone are expected to spend an unprecedented $1 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
75,000 putting in quarter does not mean they will vote in the election.
Uh, “donators”??? Is that the real headline from the article?
I understand, but outraising all GOP candidates combined is pretty significant. Money doesn’t WIN elections, but it helps. And this is a great example of how much organization dems really have. If they’re this organized when getting out the felon vote, illegal vote, 6-feet-under vote, and schizophrenic vote, and they get billions in cold cash to grease the wheels (and the palms) of the right people to look the other way, this could be disastrous.
Yes it’s the real headline. Link is posted there.
Nope, not the right headline...
Should have put [sic] after it but I just cut/pasted.
Politico must have noticed and corrected it in this short amount of time.
Withdrawn.
OH HAHAHA yeah they must have corrected it. I swear I cut/pasted! *rolls eyes*
Can a Mod change the title to “Small Donors Rewrite Fundraising Handbook (Barack Outraises GOP COMBINED”?
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