Paul’s grass roots supporters try to change world
Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 9:04 pm by Contributor ArchiveRemember, remember the 5th of November… So begins the poem about Guy Fawkes’ 1605 revolutionary aspirations, which was recently re-popularized in the dystopian “V for Vendetta”. A grass roots campaign, started in support of the “Ron Paul Revolution”, hopes to make this November 5th a memorable date in electoral history by setting the world’s single day fundraising record.
The idea, not associated with the official Paul campaign, has been making the Internet rounds and the viral appears contagious. While the goal of $10 million in one day - by way of 100,000 individual donations of $100 each - may seem impossible, a website tracking committed “November 5th” donations on the evening before was already promising close to $2 million, which would be impressive, if not quite revolutionary.
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The British version of Halloween is Guy Fawkes Night, November 5th. Guy is a well known anarchist who tried to blow up the British parliament, with everybody in it, on November 5th, 1605. As much as the English love democracy, Brits and Scots and Irishmen often say with dry humor “Guy Fawkes was the only man who ever entered Parliament with honorable intentions.” British, Canadian, Australian and South African children sang the following song for centuries right up to at least the last generation before TV:
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Nice post, Ethan, thanks… Of course this begs a question for the many Ron Paul supporters that frequent the Derby. Will YOU be donating $100 on Monday???
Yeah, I’ll be donating $100, bringing my total to $350. The main reason is for the free media coverage that it could bring. I realize that on websites it’s strange to say that Paul doesn’t have name recognition, but the reality is that many people can only be reached through network television publicity. If there is a chance for it to be free publicity, then it’s worth some extra effort.
The point of November 5th donation drive (for most Ron Paul supporters) was to (1) get Ron Paul a bit of much needed media publicity; and (2) give Ron Paul some dough.
I’ve barely eaten my breakfest and we’ve already done it.
And yes, I donated $100 this morning…I’m near the $2300 max.
But money isn’t enough. I have two weeks left for vacation this year. I plan on buying a Ron Paul car topper and driving all through South Carolina and Florida (they have early primaries).
My wife & I both donated $100 today, so yes.. unfortunately, I don’t think we (Paul supporters @ PD) constitute any sort of meaningful group, since we’re all obviously politically active and tied into this sort of event.
That great Phil! Thanks to both of you for supporting the troops!
We are at the two million mark now and the line is still at 60%!
We should break Kerry’s record of $3 million in one day pretty easily!
This is a proud day for Liberty alright…
and the top-tiers, of both parties, are in tears! How they wish for this kind of grass-root support that can’t be bought, besides the obvious $$$. I’m in for $120 today, and am stepping into a local Meet-Up group leadership role.
Boru, I wonder how the individual to dollar ratio will breakdown at the end of the day, especially when compared to Kerry’s.
We all know the importance of money to votes (advertising sways voters). But it isn’t fair to say money equals votes.
Rudy received a lot from tobacco and gambling companies. Hillary received a lot from lobbyists (and, apparently, illegal politically-ignorant Chinese aliens).
A good way to convert donations to voters is to look at the number of small (people-sized) donations: number and % of donations under $200:
DEMS
Edwards, John 20,836 27%
Obama, Barack 54,329 23%
Richardson, Bill 13,413 19%
Clinton, Hillary 41,339 12%
Colbert, Steven ? ?%
PUBS
Paul, Ron 5,176 49%
Thompson, Fred 7,760 32%
Huckabee, Mike 1,854 24%
McCain, John 20,683 19%
Romney, Mitt 29,705 13%
Giuliani, Rudy 26,333 11%
Nearly half of Ron Paul’s donations are from individuals (including most soldiers and veterans) donating under $200.
For everyone else, a third or less comes from ‘the little people’.
Ron Paul is the true people’s champion.
BTW: Here’s the number and percent of donations of $4600 (the maximum).
DEMS
Obama, Barack 1,773 12%
Edwards, John 1,054 17%
Clinton, Hillary 6,398 38%
Paul, Ron 1 0%
Huckabee, Mike 6 1%
Romney, Mitt 162 2%
Thompson, Fred 86 3%
McCain, John 714 11%
Giuliani, Rudy 1,903 20%
Clearly, Hillary and Rudy have been tapped by the powers that be to run. C’mon…38% for Hillary! Can we say ‘theelectionhasbeenbought’?
I wonder who donated $4600 to Ron Paul? Possibly Clint Eastwood. He’s been a libertarian all his life. Or maybe Google…they are fighting to keep the government out of their boardroom.
not google…al gore is a senior adviser there. he might have something to say about them giving to paul.
“not google…”
Google is Ron Paul’s number 1 contributor…albeit at a paltry $22,750. But that goes to show that RP is the people’s champion.
opensecrets.org has all the campaign finances broken down. It’s amazing which company/industry is backing which candidates.
Goldman Sachs and a bunch of other banks are throwing large amounts of money at Hillary, Obama, Romney, and Rudy (McCain got a piece too). Why are the same banks supporting only certain candidates of both parties? Could they be ’setting the stage’?
BTW: ActBlue contributed over a million to Edwards contributing over a million to him. ActBlue is a Federal PAC that enables anyone — individuals, local groups, and national organizations — to fundraise for the Democratic candidates of their choice. Apparently, that choice is Edwards. ActBlue doesn’t show up in either Obama’s or Hillary’s top ten contributors. What gives?
“We should break Kerry’s record of $3 million in one day pretty easily!”
Sorry, I meant Romney’s 1-day primary fund-raising record…which we beat.
However, Kerry has the record the prez-election fundraising record of $5.8. We’ll beat that next quarter!