Ron Paul’s $5M a Wake Up Call
by Patrick Ruffini :: October 3rd, 2007 10:33 pmIt looks like I was only a little early in my prediction of a Ron Paul $4 million quarter.
In a quarter when non-Hillary fundraising bottomed out, Ron Paul has shown Republicans that there is a price to be paid for not making the Web a central part of your strategy. Sure, top GOPers read the headlines about Obama’s fundraising. But they waved it off as a Democrat phenomenon. Their philosophy: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Venus — and nothing about one side could every apply to the other.
Paul’s nearly matching a weakened John McCain and quintupling offline darling Mike Huckabee could either be a much needed wake up call, or the morphine drip that keeps this top-down fear of the Internet going until catastrophe forces change.
Ron Paul has shown them that a Republican can do this. But he’s not a very good Republican. His supporters’ slash and burn tactics are not something any campaign would envy. Republican strategists don’t see how the successes of an anti-war libertarian can possibly apply to them. Ron Paul gives Internet success a bad name by making it look like a fringe phenomenon.
Though these concerns seem valid on the surface, my reply is simple: Don’t bet against the Internet. Overnight, it can respawn itself into something dramatically more relevant to you, or mutate into something dramatically worse, and how you engage the medium helps control which.
Dean may have been considered fringe, but Obama is not. Kerry the milquetoast nominee used the medium to raise four times as much as Dean the screaming firebrand. On the Democrat side, the medium has been used to establish frontrunners or serious challengers. Ron Paul has used it to achieve the dubious distinction of leading the second tier, but in the process probably attracted more donors than any of the top 4 campaigns. My question then is as follows. If a candidate with such a narrow base of support can raise $5 million, imagine what a candidate with mainstream appeal and a strong grassroots message can do?
The Ron Paul trolls (who can probably smell me as I compose this) will violently reject the idea that Ron Paul’s tactics can be bottled up and cracked open by just anyone. I completely agree.
And yet for a few bright, shining hours, the mainstream Republican candidates have shown that they too can have $4 million plus online quarters… like when Fred invited the entire country to watch him announce online, or when Rudy so brilliantly destroyed Hillary for not whacking MoveOn.org. They elevated the Internet into a mainstream communications vehicle and established a visceral connection with their audience.
The challenge is keeping it up. These tactics need to become part of their brand and their campaign’s DNA. They need to do it so relentlessly that supporters get the hint that when an interesting story breaks, you don’t tune into Fox News, you don’t turn on talk radio, you force them to go to the only communications medium you control: your website. Where they can give you money.
This requires being strategic. It requires giving the new media people a seat at the table where strategy and message are first being mapped out. Better yet, it requires senior strategists who understand that below-the-radar, play-it-safe strategies don’t work in an online world. And who understand how a sub-par performance in the online world can unravel an entire campaign. (Just ask George and Conrad.)
Specifically, being successful is going to require Rudy to become Fred Siegel’s “immoderate centrist” once again — to be the dogged and relentless critic of the Left he was every day as Mayor of New York City. It’s going to require Mitt to act a little less like a walking corporation… because when was the last time someone was inspired by something that looked corporate? (I know… probably not going to happen.) And it’s going to require Fred to keep cranking out those Michael Moore videos or back-of-the-van Hillary critiques.
All of these things have to do with message, not blogging, not Twittering, not Web sites. Certain types of messages win online, and others just don’t. Mike Huckabee is folksy and smooth and probably great in a room, but he failed to convert his Ames momentum because you can’t summarize his campaign in a single word… and despite the IA/NH hype, you can’t win the presidency if you can’t scale beyond the room.
We can do this. The only question is whether the people making the decisions will myopically see the Paul phenomenon as a measure of the Internet’s irrelevance, or see it as a quirky, interim step towards the net playing the key role in future nominating contests.
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“Ron Paul has used it to achieve the dubious distinction of leading the second tier, but in the process probably attracted more donors than any of the top 4 campaigns. My question then is as follows. If a candidate with such a narrow base of support can raise $5 million, imagine what a candidate with mainstream appeal and a strong grassroots message can do?”
Wow, Patrick, that could be the most logically inconsistent statement I’ve ever read in my life. Let me see if I understand you correctly:
1) “Ron Paul has probably attracted more donors than any of the top 4 campaigns.”
2) Therefore, he has a narrow base of support
3) What could a “mainstream” candidate with a “strong” grassroots message do?
Have you ever considered that Rep. Paul’s attracting more donors than the “top 4″ (whatever that means) campaigns would imply that he in fact has a wide base of support? And perhaps his support *is* more mainstream, and his message stronger at the grassroots, than the other candidates?
I understand that such a logically coherent deduction might be a stretch for you. But think about it for a moment. It just might make sense.
Barry Day, well said, get a clue Patrick Ruffini, its not success of the internet, its success of the message of freedom!
Yup, Patrick got it backwards. Ron Paul did NOTHING special to harness the internet beast. NOTHING. He is actually not that savvy. The Internet found him. Period. It was the message and the message alone. His supporters ARE his campaign.
Shorter Patrick: Gee whiz, why aren’t my warmonger candidates selling on the internets? Must be that special secret internet lube Ron Paul’s 10 supporters use.
Well said guys! Ron Paul is the mainstream and has a very strong grassroots messaage. The rest are the “appointed ones” who spread the “gospel of the Elite”. Maybe America is starting to see through the gibberish and those that don’t have their hands in Uncle Sam’s pockets find the message of Freedom appealing. JMHO
Check out http://ronpaullibrary.org/index.php and find out about the issues yourself.
You guys just don’t get it.
Ron Paul did not “use” the internet to gain support. ALL of Ron Paul’s support is 100% spontaneous. We respond to his message, not his tactics.
This campaign is NOT about who can “use” the internet. It’s about very real issues that the “mainstream” candidates refuse address. That, or they are simply incapable of addressing these issues because they just don’t have the knowledge and understanding required.
Ron Paul’s message has generated a massive and growing spontaneous response because he, and he alone, is speaking about sound money, a substantial reduction in the size, scope and expense of government, an end to the war in Iraq, a repeal of the unconstitutional PATRIOT and Military Commissions acts and many other issues.
These are the issues voters want addressed and the other candidates are not paying attention. Ron Paul gets enthusiastic support because he understands these issues far better than any of the other candidates - of either party - and because he is able to propose bold and effective solutions.
It has been found that when the average voter gets to hear Ron Paul speak for more than five minutes that voter becomes a strong supporter. He makes sense to average Americans who are sick of being lied to by their leaders.
The Ron Paul campaign is just getting wound up. Look for 4th quarter results to more than double the fundraising of the 3rd quarter. And don’t be surprised at a Ron Paul win in New Hampshire. In a nine way race, it doesn’t take a big percentage to come in first.
Also, haven’t you been watching the straw polls? Ron Paul has won more straw polls than any other candidate. He has finished ahead of “front runner” Giuliani 26 times out of 29 polls. Does this sound like a “second tier” candidate.
Romney, Thompson, Giuliani and McCain are totally irrelevant as
none of them can beat Hillary. A debate between Dr. Paul and Mrs. Clinton would be the first real substantive debate on real issues that we’ve had in decades. Once the people see Ron and Hillary in a debate, Ron Paul will win hands down.
As I said, all it takes is five minutes…
Methinks somebody fell asleep at the train station.
This piece sounds like an ill-disguised pitch from Patrick to the Frudy McRomneys for his consulting services. Note the two messages:
1. The internet is vital, powerful, you need it.
2. I hate Ron Paul and LOVE you guys!! hire ME!!!
The mainstream media is government-licensed and corporate-funded. The internet is (for now) free, open to all, and fundamentally democratic.
Therefore the internet doesn’t count and Ron Paul’s support doesn’t count. I’m sure of this because I saw it on TV.
Pat, you really are confused.
You should really read The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman. If you did, you might understand why it’s not that the other candidates won’t use Ron Paul’s tactics, it’s that they can’t. Reason being is that Ron Paul isn’t using the Internet at all, he’s even stated such. It’s his supporters. Largely a leaderless group of individuals who use his ideas as a rallying point.
This is only the beginning my friend. Ron Paul may or may not win, but what was once a loosely bound collection of individuals has found it’s means to communicate and expound their principles. Every election from here on out will have our candidate in it. And it won’t be up to you, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Moore, or Al Franken to decide for us who that candidate will be. We’ll decide on our own, thank you very much.
Scott, that it absolutely TRUE!!
The individual’s appeal will define the ability to generate Internet activity. Rep. Ron Paul’s campaign created a simple website and signed up for a couple social website accounts. The rest was self-perpetuating. That is the energy that surrounds his campaign. Will that energy translate at the polls? We can only hope for America’s sake. Meahwhile, Mr. Romney and Mr. Thompson have made some corporate level attempts at creating internet activity without success. Mr. Giuliani on the other hand is using stealth and high-level donors to make ends meet. You cannot create grassroots energy, but earn it. Rep. Paul is the only one who has earned this energy. The others will have to become ‘bad’ Republicans by converting to conservative values to earn the same.
So if Ron Paul got 5m, that means at an average 50$ a pop his ten tinfoil hat supporters (living in their mothers’ basements) each had to spam 10000 bank account deposits to raise this hideous sum of money.
If this is what you are suggesting, perhaps you should be wearing the tinfoil hat, dude.
For those who just read this garbled nonsense this guy wrote:
These neocons oughta get some professional therapy,
they just can’t seem to connect with reality very well.
I wouldn’t want to label them as kooks, crackpots or whatever,
but their version of current events is definitely a few
plates short of a full table setting.
They seem to be under the impression that the Ron Paul
rEVOLution is some kind of internet thing.
See ya’ll down at Threadgills after work tomorrow,
I’ll buy the first round….
You are such a hack Patrick. Why not just go beg Rudy or Fred for their position of “internet grassroots coordinator”. You claim to “get it” when it comes to the internet campaigning, but you don’t know the first thing about what is happening in the Paul campaign. I wonder if you were one of the hacks Dr. Paul was talking about when he said a few DC GOP hacks had tried to infiltrate his campaign to “see how he was harnessing the internet so well”. We harnessed him Patrick. You get it? His message is what’s attracting people to his campaign.
http://powderbluereport.blogspot.com
Patrick, for an online political strategist you sure are having problems recognizing what is really going on.
Like others have mentioned, its not because Paul tried to harness the internet or had some brilliant campaign staff that spawned this movement.
THE CAMPAIGN IS SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THE IDEA OF LIBERTY AND FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTION AND NOT INVADING THE WORLD.
How can Ron Paul simultaneously have the narrowest base of support and (probably) the highest number of individual donors? Don’t you see the inherent contradiction there?
The truth is, Ron Paul was never a fringe candidate. He started out in the middle of the pack from day one, and has moved up steadily since then. Check the 1st and 2nd quarter numbers again.
He is drawing more support than Brownback, Huckabee, Tancredo, Hunter, and Keyes, because he offers a real alternative to the top tier, and they don’t.
It seems to me that patrick was saying when he mentioned that he got 5M from such a small group that he may have been slightly sarcastic.
This statement would have been true until the writer said this. “The Ron Paul trolls (who can probably smell me as I compose this) will violently reject the idea that Ron Paul’s tactics can be bottled up and cracked open by just anyone. I completely agree. “
What patrick forgets is that this will be a huge fund raising craze for a mainstream candidate. He is wrong on the candidate though. He seems to think that people such as Rudy, and Fred can also take advantage of this. This is simpkly not true. Ron Paul has clearly seperated himself from all other candidates. In doing so he took a huge risk, but the benefits have grossly outweighed the risk. His campaign has taken off. He has gone from Republican misfit to Libertarian Hero.
The advent of modern mass communications, and YOU have helped to propell him onto a course to the white house. From here in our homes we can finally preciitate a change in the major political parties so that they may finally become the voices of the people not an oligarchy that runs our country.
Thank you Ron Paul for giving us a choice in Government.
Viva le Revolucion
All of the other republicans have supported socialist policies like drug precription benefit programs and progressive attempts at nation building abroad at the expense of hard working americans who give large percentages of their paychecks to the government.
All of the other republicans are scared to criticize marxists programs fruadulent, unconstitutional pyramid schemes like Social Security and Medicare.
All of the other republicans seem to believe that stretching our military recources thinly across Germany, the middle East and all the way to North Korea while running us into huge debt with the Chinese government is somehow a “Strong Defense”, when in fact it makes us extremely vulnerable to attack financially and militarily.
All of the other republicans appear hard pressed to name one decent book that would help explain their intellectual philosophy. This can be best explained by the fact that no consistent philosphy underlies their decisions except a Machiavellian drive to consolidate power and exploit the tax payers in the most efficient manner.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who truly has the taxpayer interests at heart.
There will never be another Republican president who is a member of the CFR(Council on Foreign Relations). The CFR republican is the same thing as a CFR democrat. 5%-10% of the voting public is now fully aware of this and any propaganda to the contrary merely reinforces this idea. The sooner the MSM and big GOP guys realize this the better chance they have of maintaining a credible party. Something tells em they will need to have it shoved in their face.
If we are going to defeat socialism we have to defeat it head on. Capitalism is the morally superior system, you can’t defeat socialism by electing socialist who lie and say they are capitalist. You can’t defeat socialism by apologizing for being knowledgeable about free markets.
The Republicans who are in agreement that it was a good idea to lie this country into a war(everyone but Ron Paul), are going to lose to Hillary Clinton. Fred Thompson has charisma, but not enough to overcome the anti-war leaning democrats and hard-core socialists. The Ron Paul supporters do take votes from the republicans and we are not coming back, we now understand the con, we know about the CFR and the collusion that goes on between the two parties to increase the size and scope of the government.
I know many of you want a smaller less intrusive government, Unfortunately you need to realize that the mainstream republicans are all in favor of big government, the bushes work closely with the clintons, the neo-cons are intellectual descendents of straussian socialists….THEY LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT….this ain’t just a accident where hillary clinton has been tricking Newt Gingrich, Bush 1 and 2 Reagan and Greenspan for the last 30 years. Remember Reagan and Greenspan came up with the “solution” for the early 80’s SS problem? DOUBLE THE SS TAX!…as the USSR started to stumble under it’s own flawed collectivist state-worship ideology…the republicans escalated the drug war in order to expand the state. It worked, they gained massive new rights to confiscate private property investigate our banking records etc.
Bush 1 said “read my lips no new taxes”…he didn’t back down, due to arm twist from democrats…he lied to us and stabbed us in the back. He stole our money and gave it to the state! He then continued his attacks on common sense and private property through the disabilities act…he also funded sadam hussein, armed him, and even trained his troops so they could slaughter the shia uprising and shook hands with the turks as they committed genocide on the kurds.
Ya then it was WORSE; Clinton declared that speaking out against big government made you a “terrorist”. He planted the seeds for National Health Care and the republicans pretty much went along with it as soon as he left office Bush 2 passed a new entitlement (prescription drug plan) at a time when he promised to help fix the already horrible SS and medicare problem. This was no accident…he did what he wanted to do, he is a scum bag big government apologist who licks the boots of the UN, IMF and World Bank…increasing their funding.
The neo-con talkshow hosts placate you sheep by telling you how evil the UN is(which it is)…but your leaders lick their boots and your neo-con shills deflect criticism from Bush and Cheney for making us servants to the UN.
My grandpa went to West Point, my family voted republican for decades, no one in my family will ever vote for a CFR candidate again…The CFR republicans will not win again with the 10% of republicans who think like me. We are the activist, we are the historians of this party, we have been teh boots on the ground for 20 years. You people need to wake up because no CFR republican will ever win again! EVER! the sooner you read about these scum the less energy you’ll waste.
It’s the man and his message, stupid.
The internet is just a tool that levels the playing field. Most people don’t control a radio or TV station, not many individuals can stories put in large newspapers, But most anyone can put up a web page or send emails.
If Ron Paul was not believable or his message was not important then nobody would care. It would not matter what his campaign did with the internet.
The two important things are:
One, a believable candidate with a long consistent voting record.
Two, a message of liberty for people and restrictions on government.
If you are missing one of these two you’ve got nothing.
Without the internet, no one knows about the message or the man unless the gatekeepers let you know.
I am sure that strict internet regulation will be next important thing the government needs to do.
RUFFINI, According to your twisted logic. All the big government republicans need to do is hire Ron Paul’s webmaster!
hah hah hah…you are such a moron it is funny!
There was a saying where I grew up…”you can’t polish a turd, even if your a professional turd polisher consultant, like Patrick Ruffini”…it is amazing how true that saying has become.
It’s sad that the Republicans are hell-bent on putting another pro-war socialist in office instead of a traditional conservative/libertarian. I know it pisses people like you off that some of us still value freedom, but it’s our time now.
How is having one wife for over 40 years (family values), wanting lower taxes and less government (fiscal conservative), being against late term abortions and for the 2nd amendment (socially conservative), for stronger border and against amnesty for aliens (strong national defense) and against the war and other foreign intanglements (non-interventionist) make someone “not a very good Republican.”
How is these not conservative viewpoints? Seriously, has this guy ever heard of Barry Goldwater - the classic conservative?
C’mon. Just another smear tactic from a neo-con wannabe.
Ruffini,
The funny thing is I know that YOU’D rather have Hillary than Ron Paul. You national review type people actually say you’d vote for Hillary over Ron Paul even though you put on the big facade about “hating Hillary”
That proves how much you love war and hate the constitution and hate low taxes, hate decreases in government spending.
PS. If you think true Christian conservatives are going to vote for Guiliani - the multi-wived, gun-oppressing, tax-rasing, government-exapnding mayor whose kid don’t even like him - you are completely ignorant and out of touch with your own base.
Rove was able to get Bush into office because he relied upon the Christian conservative base and the appeal of a Jesus-loving candidate. Guiliani, Thompson, Romney and McCain will NOT get the widespread support from this group. Ron Paul could.
Ron Paul is such a breath of fresh air, as compared to the stale business-as-usual, grow-government-slightly-slower-than-the-Democrats GOP.
This guy claims to be some kind of expert on Internet strategy?
Before owning my company, I was a Chief Internet Strategist for a Fortune 500 company. As many of you have noted, there is a serious lack of understanding of the Internet in this article.
It’s the same thinking that leads other candidates to ask Ron Paul how they did it, and he answers “we didn’t do it, they did!”
The Internet is the only valid source of news and information, and it is a self organizing system. There is no Chief of Ron Paul Supports directing the troops. We’re signing on supporters in droves. Every time Dr. Paul speaks, and people like what they hear, and they’re not hearing anything about him in the mainstream media…
They turn to the Internet to get their information. And they find a veritable treasure trove of it, discrediting the MSM’s disregard of The Revolution.
I won’t even bother to discredit your attacks on Ron Paul - you’re complete misunderstanding of web dynamics will suffice.
“The Internet … is a self organizing system.”
Which is why people who understand the Internet are attracted to a candidate advocating libertarian ideas. Because we’ve seen for ourselves how spontaneous order can arise, we’re not likely to fall for the usual leftwing/neocon line that a strong central government is the necessary answer to all problems.
“The Ron Paul trolls”
Oh, well, a pot calling kettle black.
If there’s a troll, that’s you, Mr. Demagogue.
You talk like it’s about internet marketing. HA HA
Some will just never get it.
We’ll be hearing about Ron Paul long after we’ve stopped hearing about ruffini.
In a column replete with absurdity, here’s the winner:
“when Fred invited the entire country to watch him announce online, or when Rudy so brilliantly destroyed Hillary for not whacking MoveOn.org. They elevated the Internet into a mainstream communications vehicle and established a visceral connection with their audience.”
Yeah, about the only thing I hear when I hear Fred mentioned is “how about that online announcement? were you there? it’s like, ya know how people remember where they were when kennedy was shot? it was just like that!”
And, God, until Rudy whacked Hillary (who is now plummeting in the polls as a result, right?), nobody had even heard of the interthingy. Nobody except for so-far-ahead-of-the-curve-theyre-behind-the-curve internet pioneers like Pat Ruffini.
You know what I plan on savoring? Hearing these phony conservatives forced to support Hillary for president when she runs against Ron Paul because their love of welfare/warfare is deep and, er, visceral.
You don’t get it. You don’t get the internet at all.
People are energized because he is the only Conservative. He is the only hope to stop out-of-control spending. The public can’t stand Bush, and will never elect a current “top-tier” Republican candidate because they are all big-government, deficit-spending, warmongers. And people don’t want it.
So they turn to the only place they can get any information about the one true Conservative in the race.
Maybe there are some of us as young voters that voted for Bush, see the despicable direction he has taken us, and want to move AWAY from that direction.
Where is the war on terror leading us? No where.
have you taken time to research Ron Paul’s direction for dealing with the problem?
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=222
This sir, is a practical plan; unlike the war we are in now.
How do we ensure we stay safe?
It isn’t through having a nanny government that takes care of our every need, nor is it through “fighting them where they are”. It is through personal freedom and liberty, freedom to carry out own protection that can stop those using terrorist tactics and desiring to kill when they are here at home(US).
You do not understand that it is not simply about a website or a marketing method, it is a man of principle with 40+ years of written and voting record to back of what he believes.
He is not a member of the “internet generation” but he is a voice of hope and freedom that the internet generation sees being gone with the other choices this year. Unelectable? That is more than highly debatable, over 70% of the nation is against the war, there is only ONE candidate in the republican race that is anti-war for the RIGHT reasons. There are many dissatisfied republican base that do not wish to continue seeing this loss of life. We have lost the respect of the Iraqi government at this point, the only means we will have to secure and protect Iraq is to start a process of withdrawal, only then will they listen to and respect us again. situations of late such as with blackwater are like gunshots to the leg of the entire “war” we are fighting there, we have already seen numerous body shots and now we are walking with one leg. If this continues further do not be surprised to see the entire of Iraq push for our ouster in such a violent fashion many mroe troops will die.
I commend our congress for making the blackwater staff able to be prosecuted under our laws, removing their virtual immunity in Iraq for blatant crimes they have committed. These crimes were as big of a threat to us being in Iraq as any seen to this point, and more damaging than the insurgents own attacks because of their lack of self control with a deadly weapon. you can not simply shoot civilians nearby when a MORTAR(which comes from afar) lands nearby, this is indiscriminate killing.
Some like I want no chance for this to continue further and are voting for Ron Paul, who voted against the war for the right reasons from the start, and had a viable plan after 9/11 to fight the true enemy. However that is not the only reason I support, as he holds true to my believe in personal liberty and smaller government.
One of the major factors that makes Ron Paul so appealing is the sheer quantity of his thought that is easily searchable online, in writing and video. I can’t imagine many candidates wanting to reveal as much as there is readily available on ronpaullibrary.org, lewrockwell.com, and the YouTube Ron Paul channel. These include interview footage going back twenty years. What Ron Paul backers get from these sites is a real insight into not merely what positions he has, but how he reached those positions, how he thinks, and how he responds to different issues and situations. Other candidates’ talking points and folksy mannerisms and memoirs can be rehearsed and ghostwritten and faked, but simply cannot beat looking into someone’s head 360 degrees the way these writings and videos allow for Ron Paul.
Laura,
It’s a good point. I would never vote for someone who is too intellectually timid/shady to post dozens of personally written articles on a wide range of economic and political topics. This is what Ron Paul has done. I don’t a gree with 100% of it, but at least I know what he beleives and a lot of it is the same stuff I believe. All the other candidates are phony liars who as far as I can tell have never done any serious intellectual thought in their lives that didn’t involve strategizing about voter blocs.
let see the favorite economics texts of each of the candidates. Do they most identify with Keynes, Marx, Rothbard, Hayek? If so what is their criticism of the other popular economics texts? These are things we actually know about Ron Paul! The others are hiding.
Patrick, are you going to respond to the folks who claim that you’re missing the point entirely?
In 1964 Barry Goldwater faced many of the difficulties Ron Paul faces today. Many of his supporters were abrasive and dogmatic and often made claims about his position that he had never actually claimed himself. It took a good deal of effort for Goldwater to re-focus his campaign on policy rather than on the distractions of ideology. But he succeeded enough to win the GOP nomination. But the split in the Republican Party guaranteed his defeat in the November election.
Goldwater was so far behind in the polls that the “smart” money abandoned him altogether. But he was still able to raise a large campaign war chest by appealing to small contributors through direct-mail fund-raising.
After the ‘64 debacle, Richard Viguerie gained access to Goldwater’s mailing list and began to build a small-contributor, direct-mail fund-raising base that grew steadily over the years. Even as Republicans re-gained access to the smart money contributors, they continued to tap this source of small contributions. The Republican edge in campaign money throughout the ’80’s and 90’s was due to this big advantage in small contributors. The smart money still did the smart thing, they contributed to both sides.
THE DEMOCRATS WERE NEVER ABLE TO DUPLICATE THIS EFFORT. Despite years of trying and millions of dollars invested, the Democrats were never able to raise the large sums from small contributors that had given the Republicans their fund-raising edge.
It’s the candidates and the issues that motivate the small contributor, not the medium by which the money is raised. The internet no doubt makes it easier and cheaper to appeal to small contributors than direct-mail efforts, but the motivation still has to be there.
In 1964 no average person felt much motivation to contribute to a Rockefeller, and what average Joe today is going to want to contribute to a Mitt Romney?
When you’re looking to the government for what small favors you can get out of it, it doesn’t make sense to be spending money to get it. In that case, the only reason to spend a lot of money to influence government is if you expect to get a LOT out of it. That’s what the smart money is all about, and the internet isn’t much help in accessing that source.
mullah cimoc say democrat party of usa just the fraud, not real to resisting iraq war crime.
before last usa election democrat promise ending the war if taking u.s. congress. but all the lie.
him democrat party just to fake resist the war crime. but in true democrat even more the love this war than him ameriki republican.
this to understand:
1. democrat leadership just enough noise for say “We try to stop the war, but the mean pres. bush he preventing us the successful.” But whole time democrat leadership know war to continue. this call “plausible deniability”.
2. the hillary clinton woman each day to saying kill him muslim, we worship the israel, we so love to kill and make the war.
Why this lie and deception to happen for aemriki people? Answer: Neocon spy yes control usa president bush administration, but if you can believe it possible, neocon controlling democrat party even more. checking the credential of him Congressman rahm emmanuel, some say him so “intrepid”.*
*This the play on word. But only him sophisticate knowing about “intrepid”. AMeriki need reading this spy book of WWII for the education.
Now all democrat just to obey him master in tel aviv.
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