Posted on 10/03/2007 11:07:26 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
He has no chance so its a waste. But a fool and his money is easily parted.
Wow! Say what you want about Paul, but those are unexpectedly high numbers.
Just keep saying that but surprising things happen sometimes. I remember that was the main argument that Norm Coleman against Jesse Ventura in the debates. It only led to a backlash which propelled him to victory,
It’s the end of the quarter and donor info on public sites won’t be available for a while, but it wouldn’t shock me if a substantial part of the $5 mil. was from the Sorocrats and other leftists. Divide and conquer, that’s what they do.
It’s just a half a dozen potheads spamming the campaign with money. /s
Maybe so maybe not, it is still early. But those are none the less impressive numbers for a second tier candidate.
Wanna bet? The last thing that the moveon.org types and Democratic leadrers want is a Hillary v. Paul race. Given the example of 2006, they know that if is a matchup in November of a pro-war pubbie v. Hillary that Hillary will waltz into the White House.
IMHO, Newt realized this too. That is why he is sitting out this election and planning for 2012 instead.
Please note that the leading leftists, Matthews, Olbermann, and recently Bill Clinton (in his election analysis) have done their best to ignore Paul. The less said about him the better from their vantage point.....hence the effort of the MSM to boost Huckabee and portray Paul as someone "who can't win" and is "quixotic."
Glad to see this, the MSM was lowballing these numbers... Isn’t this about half of what Thompson raised? From the campaign release:
“Ron Paul’s 114 percent increase is in stark contrast to the decrease suffered by Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain. Romney’s fundraising was down 29 percent. Giuliani was down 40 percent. McCain was down 55 percent.”
Plus this is all from individuals who don’t want anything in return (well ‘besides’ their freedom). :)
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Rudy Giuliani with a slight edge in the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Its Giuliani at 23% and Fred Thompson with 22% of the vote. The next level features Mitt Romney at 14% and John McCain at 12% while Mike Huckabee earns support from 5% of Likely Republican Primary Voters.
Forbes reports that Paul does not have a single person in the Fortune 500 donating to his campaign. No candidate has raised as much as he has can say the same.
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True. Ross Perot spent an estimated 60 Million of his own money and he could not win a single state. And Perot was much more appealing to the average Joe six-pack voter than the anti-war candidate Ron Paul.
PT Barnum was so right.
I believe last quarter the average donation was $40 or something, I’d expect that hasn’t changed.
You don't understand why most people give money to Paul. They aren't "suckers" in the sense that they believe he is likely to win. Most would give to him even if it was a certainty that he would lose. That is how revolutions are made.
Now.....you can argue that the Paulists are wrong in their ideas or even "loony" but the word "sucker" doesn't apply to most of them.
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