Paul Passes Obama. Clinton Next?

[jake]

last updated: 12/31/07 06:17 PM EST
total raised today: $236,079

 

[slacker921]

I hope people are holding out until later tonight.. so far it's not much beyond a regular day.

 

[internetsurfer]

For individuals/couples the maximum allowed is $2300 per campaign.

 

[Sey.Naci]

I hope people are holding out until later tonight.. so far it's not much beyond a regular day.

It's considerably above an average day, actually. That aside, I certainly hope people aren't holding off to the last minutes of the last hour, as some did on December 16th. They managed to crash the server, which meant that their donations did not end up being part of the December 16th moneybomb. It's really foolish to wait. If you plan to donate, DO IT NOW.

 

[The Winch]

Considering that most other candidates consistantly get less money each quarter, we might out raise them for Q4. Of course that's not always true. Obama got 30 some million in the second quarter, which I believe was more than the first...

Obama was still in the ramp up phase in Q2 (he only announced his campaign in mid-February). His numbers have been flat since then (19M in Q3, probably about the same or less in Q4 once he releases his primary only Q4 totals on Jan 31)

 

[The Winch]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/finance/2007/q3/


Hillary Clinton- $26,082,347

Barack Obama- $20,419,029

Those numbers include money only allowed to be spent on the general election.

 

[The Winch]

I don't think that's true. My understanding is you can only donate up to $2,300 to a campaign during the primaries. If your candidate wins the primaries you may donate an additional $2,300 during the general election.

If there were primaries held in 2007, then it would have been allowed to donate 2300 for the primaries held in 2007 and 2300 for the primaries held in 2008. This is a theoretical notion that fortunately never got tested by New Hampshire's Secretary of State.

Ignoring that issue, you can donate up to 4600 for Ron Paul 2008, but if he does not win the Republican nomination and does not run as a third party, Ron Paul's campaign must refund you the amount over 2300.

By downloading his q3 FEC filing,
http://209.143.196.22/dcdev/posted/312938.fec

you can see one person donated 4600.00 in Q3. Once the Q4 report is filed on Jan 31, you'll be able to see who else contributed money to the general election fund by going over the 2300.00 limit.

In Q3, it looks like 46K of his donations were for the general election. That small a number would explain why his campaign has never mentioned that.

 

[Alex Libman]

Someone should total up all Ron Paul related 527 Orgs / 501(c)(3) org donations, for-profit efforts like the blimp, etc. I bet we blew Romney's $21 mil out of the water!