Inside Ron Paul Nation
by Patrick Ruffini :: October 15th, 2007 10:23 pmRon Paul’s supporters have provided a measure of radical transparency into his fundraising that would make most political operatives suffer heart failure. Going well beyond the now-passe end-of-quarter fundraising “bat,” the Paul campaign has set a public goal of $12 million raised for the quarter, posting their current total live on the homepage and including the names and hometowns of donors. If a donation comes in while you’re on the site, you’ll see it update live.
As if this weren’t bold enough, RonPaulGraphs.com has taken it a step further. Using the live data feed that powers the graphic, the site publishes an impressive array of analytics including a minute-by-minute view of donations and projected totals for the month and quarter.
But that’s not all.
The script also captures the name and hometown information for most online donors. A quick analysis of this data gives us the most revealing look yet at who Ron Paul’s donors actually are.
First off, I took the state-by-state breakdown of donors and plugged into an Excel sheet, using it to produce donor-per-capita numbers for each state. Using this data, I created this map.
This really is a Western movement, with some of the Northeast thrown in. Basically, these are the places where you would expect libertarians to be strong. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen a data set this good about the state-by-state strength of libertarianism. And the data gets more reliable every day .
The Paul movement is weakest in the Deep South and the Ohio River Valley. Ohio (and surprisingly New York) are Paul’s weakest big states.
The differences are also fairly dramatic. One is 4 times more likely to be a Ron Paul donor in Nevada than in Mississippi. And more than twice as likely in blue Washington state than in blue New York. Alaska and Hawaii, which are not on the map, would also be colored the darkest shade of red.
The state-by-state numbers I crunched are below (current as of about 24 hours ago):
Oh, and by the way, on the names…
Though not exhaustive, I did go through the last 200 names. A whopping 83% of donors were men, 14.5% were women, and 2.5% I couldn’t determine from the name. Readers should comb through this list to confirm these numbers.
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I know that there are few in the neo movement that will understand this, but Ron is running to win. Ron is about 230k votes away from being the GOP nominee (thank you GW for so badly destroying the rank and file movement). 17k in Iowa=2nd, in NH 50-60k=1st, Nevada (lets see if Romney even wants to compete there after we beat him nasty this last week, I suspect Ron wins with 20k), and in SC (after Ron gets major endorsements)=1st with 130k. After SC I’ll be booking my ticket to St. Paul, MN. Imagine more fun than we had in 1964 (9 years before I was born). Destiny is worth playing out. And for November, make the nice guy come in first this time.
Thanks for the write-up. I’d change your lead sentence though to “Ron Paul has provided”. His supporters are doing a great job of running with the information, but the basic transparency comes from the top. Shouldn’t our Government run like this? This is another reason I support Ron Paul!
>> Ron Paul’s supporters have provided a measure of radical transparency into his fundraising that would make most political operatives suffer heart failure. Going well beyond the now-passe end-of-quarter fundraising “bat,” the Paul campaign has set a public goal of $12 million raised for the quarter, posting their current total live on the homepage and including the names and hometowns of donors. If a donation comes in while you’re on the site, you’ll see it update live.>>
Patrick:
Thanks for the great article!!
The decision by the Ron Paul campaign to publish donor stats “live” is a move that will rock the entire political establishment in ways that we may not completely understand at this point.
I witnessed the same thing happen in the financial services industry - where I worked for 18 yrs - when we created the first electronically-derived (computer-generated) price-improvement algorithm in the world right here in Chicago on the Chicago Stock Exchange back in the early 1990’s. In effect, by letting computers take control over the process of improving the pricing of a securities trade we literally opened pandora’s box. Within 1-3 years all of our competitors - in order to stay in business - were compelled to come up with their own versions of computer-generated price improvement algorithms. With so many competing algorithms and claims by market makers at various exchanges and upstairs trading rooms on NASDAQ the obvious question became “how can we measure the quality of the claims being make by all the various providers of liquidity?”
Continuing with leadership standard once again, a group of us here in Chicago reached out to professors of math and statistics from around the country and got commitments from 10 of the top 12 firms in the industry to have the actual data of their trades examined. Within a year two firms I worked with were providing monthly reports and then overnight-daily reports to a broad contingent of firms throughout the industry. We showed our work to the SEC before we went “live” and got their endorsement to the chagrin of some of the “powers that be” at the NYSE. In the end it was amazing to watch how we achieved - within just 1-2 years - this amazing movement toward transparency and openness. All I can say is that it was light turning a light on in a cave: once the light was turned on overhead there was no more power in waving-claiming-shaming our own separate torches. We all had to put up or shut up. We ended up actually exiting the cave and joined forces in partnership with our customers - the “us vs. them” paradigm had collapsed. We had to be partners with our customers - and let them have access to our books and records - or we had to leave the industry.
The only exchange - and trading platform - that refused to take part in this transformation toward transparency and openness was the New York Stock Exchange. Little did we know that - as we later understood a few years later with the scandal of it’s Chairman making $150 million per year - they had a lot of fraud and corruption they were still trying to keep a lid on - especially with the large institutional trades.
What was the result of this movement toward openness and transparency? Please remember that by the end of the 1990s spreads in stocks were being quoted in decimals, volumes soared and the cost of trading collapsed. This is how powerful the movement toward openness and transparency can be. I will never forget the 2-3 weeks that one of the most powerful firms on Wall Street called me into their boardroom to meet their partners to inform me that they were going to move ALL of their electronic trading business to Chicago. During this time they actually broke the back of the NYSE specialist commission monopoly. The cost of doing business on the NYSE collapsed and volume soared. I spent years with leading trading execs all over Wall Street preaching the virtues of competition, openness and transparency. Freedom works! Period.
To me, the decision by the Ron Paul campaign to “open up the hood” on their donation machine is akin another “shot heard round the world” for the cause of freedom, liberty, transparency, openness and truth.
Watch how the other campaigns try to ignore this and as they lose face watch how they scramble to get on board to save their hides. It’s going to be a very exciting process to watch. There is no turning back now. And Ron Paul is sitting in the catbird seat right now with virtually NO/ZERO competition. He’s going after the low-lying fruit among lovers of freedom and liberty. This groundswell will continue to the point where the viral power of this openness will attract a virtual hoard new supporters. All the other candidates will be forced to throw in the towel and reveal who their real masters are - ie. corporate interests, not the interests of the common man among We The People.
Has anyone else also noticed that the western orientation of Ron Paul’s support mirrors the grassroots support that got Goldwater on the ticket. Before Goldwater, the Republican Party was based in the northeast. Goldwater’s movement started in the southwest and then into the south, although he only won AZ and the deep south in the election.
This primary is the exact same as the primary in 1964. Giuliani and Romney being the ‘liberal wing’ like Rockefeller and Paul being the modern Barry Goldwater… hopefully with a different outcome in the general election.
Flap-
Libertarians are (used to be anyway) a big party of the Republican base. Low tax, pro-liberty/responsibility used to be the Republican mantra before the big government pro-war crowd pushed us out.
I voted Republican in every election until 2006 when I voted straight 3rd party, some green, some libertarian, as a protest against big government Republicanism. There is nothing wrong with supporting libertarianism and being a Republican. The two used to be the same thing.
Ronald Reagan-
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.”
I’ve always been registered Independent or Libertarian (when legally allowed to), but I’m changing to Republican so I can vote in the primary (and switching back before the general election). If Ron doesn’t get the nomination, it won’t be for lack of my vote.
Great write-up… I tried to quantify the influence of Paul in the blogosphere (versus the virtual black-out of him in the MSM). Paul’s campaign (at least online) has real legs. In the past month, he is the most mentioned Republican candidate!
http://thetomoreport.blogspot.com/2007/10/2008-presidential-media-showdown-how.html
Let me know if I’m wrong, but the list of donors is restricted to the previous 400 because the file was taxing the grapher’s bandwidth (http://www.ronpaulgraphs.com/donors.html). So if you grabbed it late in the night or early in the morning, it would contain mostly western states donors’ names since they would be the last ones to be up considering the time zone factor. You’d probably have to sample this list a couple of times a day to come up with more reliable data.
to JL #7:
These numbers aren´t limited to donations >200$. That´s only the treshold for full disclosure in the FEC reports. The numbers here aren´t from the report but “live”-statistics.
However it doesn´t comprise all donors either.
1) It´s only online donations (leaving out “classic” donations, accounting to about 20-30% of $ in Q3 but probably less in terms of number of donors).
2) It´s also only a part of the online donors, namely the names of the most recent donors displayed by the flash widget. Since this feature has a fixed update intervall that leaves out those donors donating “in between” (the total of donors above is 6208 while the actual number of donations since the start of the feature is a tad over 12000, so the “capture rate” is just slightly over 50 %).
3) multiple donations by one individual would be considered as different donors
Nonetheless it certainly is a statistically valid representation of the relative distribution of donors across the states.
So Patrick, the question is, when are you going to endorse Paul? 
I find the heavy New Hampshire turnout intriguing.
Could this be a side effect of the Free State Project? (I doubt it, but it’s worth thinking about)
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when we finally get actual voters casting actual votes. Trust no polls or pundits until then. Remember, four years ago Howard Dean seemed to be a force to be reckoned with until actual votes started being tallied.
Can someone explain why Paul is not engaging the south very well? I hear many southerners talk about state’s rights, so it seems that Paul would fit their bill perfectly. Is it just because many down there are baptist and support the war, so the anti-war candidate is unpalatable?
“”Can someone explain why Paul is not engaging the south very well? I hear many southerners talk about state’s rights, so it seems that Paul would fit their bill perfectly. Is it just because many down there are baptist and support the war, so the anti-war candidate is unpalatable?”
That is part of the story but I have a couple other theories. 1) The demo in the south tends to skew older. Older people tend to mail in checks instead of donate online and this only tracks online donations. 2) Some states are simply poorer than others. Look at West Virginia. I bet you’d find tepid per capita support in that state for almost every candidate Alabama isn’t exactly wealthy.
Hi guys.. the data for this map came from my site… to answer a few questions:
1) Patrick got the full list of donors before I limited the page to the last 400 donors.
2) this is NOT a comprehensive list of donors.. there was basically a 2 day gap where there was almost no data available… and certainly not donor names.
3) during peek donations times, many many names will slip through as I only update the data every 3 minutes and get just the latest 8 donor names… so if there are 20 donors in 3 minutes… we end up with less than half the names.
4) The full donor list was a distinct set of names.. so people who donated more than once are only counted once.
5) I have plans to make the donor data more interesting… keep your eyes peeled, and you can get updates on my blog: ronpaulgraphs.blogspot.com
dan
Nash: “The demo … tends to skew … [by ignoring mailed-in checks] … this only tracks online donations.”
Much of the “signal” here may be from the regional prevalence of internet adoption and willingness to use it for financial transactions.
IMHO this could overwhelm the signal from regional differences in prevalence for Ron Paul support, or at least seriously distort it. So we shouldn’t make generalizations, and ESPECIALLY shouldn’t base strategic decisions, based on this map. Or at least not until we can include the information about mail-in contributions.
Also: Ron Paul support at this stage is mainly among those who rely on the internet for their news, because the drive-by media have been keeping him very thoroughly buried up to the news of his $5.1M quarter. So the internet-adoption signal will still be strong even with the inclusion of mail-ins.
Dr. Paul is not strong in the south b/c the south is truly dominated by the war-mongering and fear-mongering neocons. It’s here that the support for the war is the strongest and that, unfortunately, trumps many other concerns.
911 pretty much dismantled the LP in Florida, along with the LPF itself. People who used to be very sympathetic to us became hostile literally overnight.
Ta,
Very cool data analysis.
Tiny complaint: Maryland and Florida had the exact same donor/capita ratio (to 4 decimal places), but you gave FL Tier 3 status while MD got Tier 2. Show Florida some love and promote us to Tier 2! (or at least demote Maryland)
Has anyone else noticed that Tennessee is becoming a libertarian stronghold? I suspect that the absence of a state income tax attracts new residents who appreciate that fact. Note that Texas and Florida, which also have no state income tax, are darker red than their surrounding states.
The surprise here is that Wyoming and Idaho show less support than Montana, Colorado, and Utah. Wyoming nearly won the Free State vote over New Hampshire — maybe it’s not as libertarian as libertarians thought?
Wait till the ron paul money bomb hits later in the month….
to join email ronpaulmoneybomb@yahoo.com tell the you want to beadded to the money bomb list. $25 each 40000 people = a cool million dollars in one blast!
Paul’s support in New Hampshire *is* bolstered by the Free State Project. FreeStater’s are among some of the most active MeetUp attendees.
There are at least two or three events per week: sign waves, overpass banners, lit drops, canvassing, sign making, etc. Last Saturday 30 of us greeted party insiders as they entered the Republican State Committee meeting.
The reverse is also true. Paul’s campaign has motivated new people to move to NH and become active in the freedom movement.
Paul’s ‘Let’s consult the Constitution instead of the attorneys’ rebuttal to Romney in the recent debate really reminded people of what a Republican candidate should stand for. And of course the corporate profit bonanza going on in Iraq is not sitting well with taxpayers. Paul is demonstrating how the top tier candidates are all tax and spend neocons (taxing the middle class and spending it on war, that is), and steamrolling over the Constitution in the process.
I’m amazed with such outstanding posts. I’m also greatful for Patrick’s blog.
Somone posted Paul only needs only about 280,000 more voters to obtain the nomination.
I did the math and if I’m correct It should be closer to 245,000 voters. can someone else look at the data and provide an answer. We may be both wrong or one of us is correct. It really donesn’t matter to me who is correct I just think we need the facts to support an actual goal.
As a GOP member I’m very excited about Paul. Our group started with just 4 of us and last weeks meeting we had 350 who attended. We always have a debate party and this time we had to rent the local high school gym due to the size of our group.
I invited a friend of mine who is a neocon and he could not belive the number of GOP members and donkeys in the same room. I didn’t push him to support Paul but afterwards he was simply blown away with the excitement of the people. He is a state senator and the GOP knew who he was and so they all had something to talk about. When I meet him for lunch today I didn’t even bring Ron Paul up. He however could not stop talking about Ron Paul.
I have also noticed MSM taking notice or Ron Paul and it started with PBS. If my math is correct his support will double by the second week of November.
Anyway godbless all of you. I pray every night that Ron Paul will win the nomination. Don’t you?
Ronpaulgraphs.com has an amazing update, check it out:
http://ronpaulgraphs.com/donors.html
This is a 24 hour daily updated donor map.
Thank you for the inspiration Patrick, Dan (the one making these graphs) rocks!
This graph is somewhat reminiscent of the Goldwater movement and the strength in Northern New England suggests that it isn’t just a time-zone affair. But Goldwater was somewhat stronger in the Mid-West and a lot stronger in the South. But much of his Southern strength was practical rather than ideological. Southern Republicans thought he could win there were other Republicans couldn’t. But I think patriotism is also a factor. The South is a very patriotic part of the country and I think some of these people confuse Ron Paul’s criticism of the war with a lack of patriotism. Of course, criticism is just as patriotic as support, it is the truth that matters. But, then again, maybe Paul just ins’t very well-known in those areas just yet.
“This really is a Western movement, with some of the Northeast thrown in. Basically, these are the places where you would expect libertarians to be strong.”
I’ve never seen any evidence that libertarianism is a Western movement, and this data does not change my mind. Who is more libertarian, Tester or DeMint? McCain or Sessions? Snowe or Cornyn? Smith or Inhofe? According to this map, California is more libertarian than Nebraska. Mark me as unpersuaded.
The numbers are time dependent. As I write this, Georgia has more Paul contributors per captita than California. So this map is meaningless.
Well, I’m a Democrat who just donated to Ron Paul. I like seeing him up on the stage reminding the rest of the candidates about the constitution.
Ron Paul IS NOT Barry Goldwater, and definitely not a Ronald Reagan.
Goldwater ran in 1964 as a Vietnam Hawk. Advocated using NUKES against the North Vietnamese and that we should’ve went in 10 years earlier and criticized the strategy for not trying to win.
With Reagan, you had one of the MOST INTERVENTIONIST Foreign Policies ever and most successful to boot, the complete antithesis of what Ron Paul is talking about and lying about on some issues.
There is a place for a Libertarian Wing within the GOP, but Ron Paul is not in anyway shape or form the one to be the spokesman for it. He’s a kook and more like a Neville Chamberline and Ghandi type, with a nasty attitude. There is a reason Neo-nazi’s and white supremecist like him, and it doesn’t have a thing to do with ’smaller govt’ talking points…
Please pass this on!
1 Million Ron Paul supporters + $12 each =VICTORY
Everyone donates $12, even if you’ve given before, to the Ron Paul HQ at www.ronpaul2008.com
Ron Paul’s HQ will post our info online. Our Name / State we reside in / Our pledge to vote in our State Republican primary. This will prove that our campaign has the largest grassroots support of any candidate!
If we can’t raise enough money and get enough people to commit, Ron Paul won’t win, no matter how popular he is on the net
What I found most interesting is his support in both blue and red states. His message seems to appeal to both political parties.. From the die hard gun rights individuals, to the liberals dedicated to freedom and civil liberties.
It shows me that he is just what this country needs.. someone who will represent ALL AMERICANS… Not just those in his selected political party, and not just those who have large enough bankrolls to have their voice heard.
What I did not see though, was a breakdown as a percent of total population. Some of the lighter shade states, are also lower in overall population, so the number of possible contributions may be equally proportional to the larger states.
jp,
I will not debate on comments, but you have to understand a number of factors about our war mentality and the problems it will cause.
The fact is, we simply can not afford to continue these wars, no matter the cause.
We have totally open borders as our border patrols can’t combat the mexican military that has made over 200 incursions into the US transporting illegals and drugs in mass, we can not continue this war and get the border patrol BACK to their stations at the same time. it is not as simple as hiring more people, we don’t have the money to hire them. We are in more debt than ever before, the congress recently raise the debt ceiling just to stay “open”, our seniors will have NOTHING if we do not stop this madness.
We are not the world police, our police actions do not aid in our own security, they cause more problems throughout the world. Nowhere in our constitution does it say we are to protect every nation of the world at our own peril.
Democrats can not and will not lead us int he right direction, they too wish to continue, and even expand this world police action while further expanding our government dept with huge social programs that will be a total failure.
We protect ourselves with OUR military, with OUR guns, with OUR freedoms. If we protect and enforce our borders, have a good LEGAL immigration program, we will again prosper as a nation united together by our liberty.
I am sick of the lesser evil it is time now to stand up for the greater good!
While I have not donated to the Ron Paul campaign I have printed off tri-folds & fliers and handed them out or set them in stores. I also talk to people and ask them to support a true American Patriot for President. Dr. Paul has got my vote hands down.
Oh, and as far as support from Alabama, just look at our straw poll numbers. Tuscaloosa-81%, Birmingham_57% So he does have support in the form of votes here in the Southern States.
check out techpresident.com for all the graphs that display Ron Paul’s dominance online.
they have graphs for:
youtube, myspace, blog mentions, meetup! members, eventful, facebook, etc…
The polls that show Ron in the 3-5% are true.
The polls that show him winning by huge landslide margins 40%+ are also true.
How can they both be true?
The 3-5% Polls:
These polls are always measured in the same way. A third party calls homes on their land-lines(home telephones). I don’t personally know anyone that even has a land-line anymore, even my grandpa has a cell phone. So they’re already only calling the people out there who think it’s still 1983. On top of that, to hurt 2nd tier(now 1st tier) candidates like Ron Paul, they dont mention his name at all. You must select an option for “other” to get to him. And then there is name recognition, which for these people who are probably old and may have only seen a computer once or twice, Ron Paul does not stand out to them(not to mention the fact that he is not even recognized in the list of candidates.) So you can see why he would land a 3-5%.
40%+ online or texting Polls
The online and text voting(where Ron Paul always wins) are easily accessible and all of his supporters are heavily involved. They swarm in hoards like nothing seen before in the presidential elections(which I believe will reflect in actual votes in the primary elections). Ron Paul wins by such large margins that Main Stream Media sites like MSNBC and FOX take the polls off-line and say they’ve been hacked or some other ridiculous excuse, which is just another form of censoring Ron Paul to negate any further support for him in the primaries. If it were possible for a small group of people to fudge the polls, wouldn’t other candidates’ supporters also be doing the same thing making the whole contest relative?
Ron Paul has more donors than any other candidate (That’s more donors, not more money).
Ron Paul has received more donations from the military than any other candidate.
He is going to win in the New Hampshire Primaries in a land slide and other states will follow suit.
Only one Democrat can win. Ron Paul is going to get the support of all the people who were supporting the Dem that lost whether it be Hillary, Obama or Edwards because of his anti-war policy and his impeccable voting record in Congress. Also, and this one’s for the Republicans, we all know that this election is going to go to the Democrats if Giuliani/Romney/Thompson or any other War-Mongering Republican gets the nomination. Seriously Republicans, you have to realize that near 75% of Americans want out of Iraq. They’re either going to vote Dem or vote Paul. So what’s it gonna be?
Restore the Republic!
End the War!
Protect Our Borders!
VOTE RON PAUL 2008!
This is only the donations side of it all. I know people who will vote RP but don’t have money to donate. Some are active in meetups and other things, yet some are not political involved but still will only vote for RP.
Great job!
Is there anyway to get these locations and donations updated!
Ron Paul is Hope for America!
I’m a female with a unisex name who donated to Ron Paul.
I don’t think that many people should be too worried that RP does not get a significant amount of female votes - I’m not saying we should ignore that fact either..
But I have not met too many females who contribute to camapaigns as much as I have seen men do so… more men than women seem to be interested in politics from the grassroots level as well
Of course, this trend has shifted a little with Hillary Clinton running for president who may possibly get a massive load of “vagina votes”. I actually thought I would be very excited the day that a woman ran for president - and then when I found out what Hillary’s platform was I decided I was going to have to go with someone else… heh. I’m not even a Republican - partisanship is in no way keeping me from voting for her.
I’m a female with a unisex name who donated to Ron Paul.
I don’t think that many people should be too worried that RP does not get a significant amount of female votes - I’m not saying we should ignore that fact either..
But I have not met too many females who contribute to camapaigns as much as I have seen men do so… more men than women seem to be interested in politics from the grassroots level as well
Plus stats show that women tend to lean more to the left than they do the right, while at the same time there is an uprising of men going towards the right wing
Of course, this trend has shifted a little with Hillary Clinton running for president who may possibly get a massive load of “vagina votes”. I actually thought I would be very excited the day that a woman ran for president - and then when I found out what Hillary’s platform was I decided I was going to have to go with someone else… heh. I’m not even a Republican - partisanship is in no way keeping me from voting for her.
Hey I’m doing all I can in Mississippi. Most people don’t have the election on their radar yet here.
I wouldn’t doubt this map. The Ohio River valley is dominated by trade unions, the deep south is dominated by evangelical war-mongers, and NY is dominated by banking interests. These are three areas Paul seems to attack. But when the election draws closer to these communities through the grassroots, the Ohio river valley and NY will hear a free-trade message, and the south will hear the federalist message that Paul says but the MSM ignores (it doesn’t make good copy to make intellectual points). Paul will not win everywhere, but in this highly fractured GOP race, it may not be possible for any of the other candidates to coalesce ‘MS’ GOP support. If this occurs, Paul will be as competitive as anybody.
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[…] Ron Paul’s campaign in the second quarter was everything its supporters so fervently claimed: distributed and supporter-driven. They raised $2.4 million. In the third quarter, they used technique to boost that return dramatically, putting a live fundraising counter on their homepage. That raised $5.1 million. Technique and gathering momentum doubled the return. And now, in the ultimate test of whether radical transparency and audacious goals can transform fundraising, they’re looking to leapfrog the frontrunners with a $12 million goal. […]
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[…] Ron Paul’s campaign in the second quarter was everything its supporters so fervently claimed: distributed and supporter-driven. They raised $2.4 million. In the third quarter, they used technique to boost that return dramatically, putting a live fundraising counter on their homepage. That raised $5.1 million. Technique and gathering momentum doubled the return. And now, in the ultimate test of whether radical transparency and audacious goals can transform fundraising, they’re looking to leapfrog the frontrunners with a $12 million goal. […]
[…] More Ron Paul Maps Ron Paul Graphs Blog has a follow-up on Patrick Ruffini’s post on the geography of Ron Paul donors. They got two great maps, one showing donation per capita in the last 24 hours and one showing donations per capita in Q4. According to the blog: “These numbers ARE NOT comprehensive (not even close). I think the sample is “random” and large enough now that it’s interesting… but be aware that on extremely heavy donation times there will be more missed donors than not.” […]
[…] Apparently, Ron Paul’s support looks to be mainly Western and New England. […]
[…] Ron Paul was on J Leno last night and got an amazing response from the audience. You can watch the video here. Brian also sent me a great post about some statistics on Paul’s campaign. […]
[…] He’s raised billions of dollars from every state in the Dominion (except from God-fearing Christian (Republican) states whose people are wise to his deceptions and trickery) which our Sources tell us will be used to purchase Manitoba from the Central Canadian Government. […]
[…] The subset of America that would benefit from a Ron Paul presidency recognizes this fact and donates (and probably votes) accordingly. Ronpaulgraphs.com has data on where those who donate to Ron Paul list their address. As you can see below, Ron Paul’s movement is primarily made up of Western residents (and possibly mostly male at that): […]
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