2008 Fundraising

[Tender Branson]

Does anyone have new numbers for February ? The updated numbers for January are:

"The setting, which has the feel of an Internet start-up, is emblematic of how Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has been able to raise so much money. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign will report to the Federal Election Commission that it collected $36 million in January — $4 million more than campaign officials had previously estimated — an unprecedented feat for a single month in American politics that was powered overwhelmingly by small online donations.

That dwarfed the $13.5 million in January that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York is expected to report Wednesday and the $12 million Senator John McCain’s campaign said he brought in for the month."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/politics/20obama.html

Will Obama report 40 Mio. in February ? ? ?

[exopolitician]

Hes already reached 480,000 donars since February 12th.

[Tender Branson]

Will Obama report 40 Mio. in February ? ? ?

Most likely:

"Plans for the 527 were conceived in late January, when Clinton's campaign was nearly broke. Since Feb. 5, she has raised nearly $20M, but still faces a resource disadvantage. Obama's aides said they're approaching their goal of raising money from 500,000 new donors since Jan. 1 and project a total haul of more than $35M for February."

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/proclinton_527_prepares_for_oh.php

More than 500.000 have donated so far, and I think 50.000 did so in the last 2 days ...

[TheresNoMoney]

This is exactly how political campaigns should be funded, thousands of small donors.

[Tender Branson]

Hes already reached 480,000 donars since February 12th.

510.000 and counting ...

[exopolitician]

Hes already reached 480,000 donars since February 12th.

510.000 and counting ...

How big of an amount do you think will come out of his february fundraising? Over $40 mill?

[Tender Branson]

Hes already reached 480,000 donars since February 12th.

510.000 and counting ...

How big of an amount do you think will come out of his february fundraising? Over $40 mill?

Twice of what Hillary will report.

[exopolitician]

They are about to hit 1 milllion donors: 918,392 as of Feb 20th.....O_o

[Tender Branson]

Barack Obama is on track to raise more than 50M this month, if outside projections and outside advisers to the campaign are correct.

His campaign officially admits that they'll raise more than $36M. Beyond that, they're keeping mum. Only a few key aides know the true projected total and they're not talking to me or others in the press.

But outside advisers, and one Republican math whiz, are reading the body language as best they can.

Patrick Ruffini notes that Obama "had tallied about 256,000 donors for the year as of the end of January." These donors contributed an average of $140 each for a total of $36M.

Now, he notes, "Obama’s public donor count stands at 583,525, meaning about 327,000 people donated in February. With the same average, that would give Obama just over $46 million in 21 days."

And Ruffini has created an embedded crowdsourced spreadsheet that tracks every bit of public data about Obama's fundraising. From those calculations, he gets at least $60M for the quarter.

Outside campaign advisers said that they believed the campaign would raise at least $50M, based on conversations they've had with the cryptkeepers.

How much will Hillary Clinton raise? Between $25M and $30M, according to advisers.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/obama_on_track_to_raise_50m_pl.php

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Less than 40k more needed. I'll be one of them.

[Tender Branson]

I can now announce that Team Obama has surpassed 1.000.000 donors.