Posted on 01/21/2008 11:09:57 PM PST by Tennessean4Bush
This is a vanity thread for Fred supporters. If you want to be cute and clever, and post something derogatory or pro-another candidate, it is a free country. I can ignore as well as the next guy, I suppose.
Question for Fred supporters: Do you think if Fred could raise $15 million by Friday he would stay in the race?
Does anyone know how many people visit FR a day? I do know that 50-60% of Freepers and lurkers are pro-Thompson. So if FR gets 10,000 unique visitors in a day, 6,000 of them might be inclined to give $50 by Friday and get 5 other friends to do so.
Further, there are quite a few conservative blogs and websites. I bet that similar percentages of their viewership are inclined to support Thompson and give $50 by Friday.
Heck, if Ron Paul can raise (how much was it?) several million in one day, can't conservatives raise 5 or 10 times that amount in four days?
Thoughts?
IBTH
LOL!
They think they want him to drop out. They’re mistaken. His votes won’t go to Huckabee and will mean Huckabee will have to start push-polling about people he’s later going to have to approach with kneepads for his Veep position.
If someone could get Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and others to mention the $15 Million by Friday, I bet he would raise $25 million. Further, it would erase once-and-for-all the chattering class penchant for saying he is about to drop out and he just has to win this state to stay in.
I don’t think there is a specific threshold that will make the decision for him. I do think that he will feel obligated when the money comes in. I have given to the campaign twice since Saturday and am nearing my cap.
Is $15 million by Friday dramatic enough? Perhaps it needs to be $50 million by Friday? If 300,000 people donate $50 each (I was wrong before when I said 30,000 people - needed another zero) he would raise $15 million.
Wow. Took all the way to post 8 to get one of y'all. Good use of "fire." You should have talked about his "trophy wife" and his "stalking horse" candidacy for McCain to really do a good job, though.
Not recently. He was really hitting his stride the last couple of weeks. But, of course, not enough people saw that.
Does Fred really want to continue with his campaign? That’s the real question.
I think you would need 300,000 people to donate $50 to reach $15,000,000.
I read an article at Breitbart.com conerning the Dems SC debate tonight, and it quoted a Florida poll concerning Republicans:
“Florida polls suggest a dead heat between McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee and former Massachusetts governor Romney.”
Noticed Fred isn’t mentioned. Ticked me off immediately. Anyone else heard about this poll? Doesn’t sound right somehow, more like wishful thinking.
Anyone else have an opinion on this? More of the MSM trying to push the electorate into thinking Fred will never matter?
300,000 people to donate an average of $50 each by Friday, or
30,000 people to donate an average of $50 each and convince 10 others to do so, or
One mention of the audacious challenge to raise so much for the conservative cause by Rush or Sean and we will raise $25 million.
I think, though, the challenge has to come from Fred. He needs to state that he will give it all he has if he knows he can count on enough resources not just to show a respectable finish, but enough to counter the inevitable attacks from the other candidates and blow them out of the water with media and content.
And if Senator Thompson keeps getting coverage about his lack of funds, the publicity for that could be as wide as any advertising he could buy with a large inflow of money.
So, using that logic, if any candidate is out of funds he merely needs to get coverage of that fact and that mere coverage will do the trick to help him win the nomination? I doubt that is the kind of coverage any candidate wants.
Should Fred stay in, and I hope he does, we would need to get serious about fund raising. The truth is, these campaigns are getting so expensive it’s ridiculous. The money that’s already been spent is mind boggling and they have barely begun.
Even 10 million would be very ambitious. I read that Chuck Norris was trying to raise 10 million for Huckabee and had only raised a fraction of that goal.
Increasing the base of committed supporters is the key. You can't draw from the same well forever. That's why helping to get more new friends signed up is helpful even if you personally can't give any more.
I agree, that is the first question. But I would edit it to read:
Does Fred really want to continue with his campaign if he doesn't really have more than enough resources to do it well? Or, if he had $15 million in the bank by Friday, would he want to continue or is he done?
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