ThisNovember5th.com - multi freedom candidate mass donation day

[tpreitzel]

This concept of a mass donation day for multiple candidates is a good idea, but should be done rarely, say 2x per year maximum. Why? The major goal of this type of fundraiser should be to educate voters on the various candidates. A potential donor only has so much money to donate so the donor will likely do a bit of research before spending money on the various candidates. Education is good, but once informed the purpose likely loses its appeal to potential donors.

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

Good idea. Spread the wealth. Maybe even expand and give 25, 15, 10 to a gold, silver, bronze candidate. Kinda like the olympics. My favorite, 2nd fav, and third fav.

I like this line of thinking. I don't know about the olympic thing, but the idea of spreading the 3VOL is good, on multiple levels...

I don't like the idea. We had a Rand Paul & Kokesh money bomb on the same day and all it did was overshadow Kokesh's moneybomb.

It was tough in that it was the end of Q3... I don't think we can escape that House candidates will always play second fiddle to Senate ones. A quirk of human nature...

I do believe that the multi-bomb will help prevent such occurrences. Supporters can promote the event for their favorites and no-one will have any reason to feel stepped on. It truly seems a free-market solution to me.

True ... IMO, Rand and Peter should be removed and individual months reserved for them alone.
In the long run, everybody will likely get some funds. The primary obstacle has been the short notice and multiple money bombs per month which simply has to stop. Even this date is too short, but it's a start.

I don't think Peter and Paul should be removed at all. I'd personally like to see the downticket races take more prominence. Those who think high profile races are the only important ones will find them where-ever they end up. I don't know that the prominence by pledge idea will be fair, as the quirk of human nature mentioned above will mean the placement can pretty much be guaranteed at the moment it is announced

Competition always raises the bar of performance!

Yeppers

posted this in the poll thread

Strongly disagree

I'd like to throw my name in the hat.

i'm a sovereign king of my property and i'm attempting to expand. =) $$$

won't you ally me?

lulz

my $00.02

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

This concept of a mass donation day for multiple candidates is a good idea, but should be done rarely, say 2x per year maximum. Why? The major goal of this type of fundraiser should be to educate voters on the various candidates. A potential donor only has so much money to donate so the donor will likely do a bit of research before spending money on the various candidates. Education is good, but once informed the purpose likely loses its appeal to potential donors.

Agreed, the main thing I thought of when seeding this idea was to prevent a $#!+-storm if one candidate decided to try to claim the 5th or 16th...

 

[MRoCkEd]

Agreed, the main thing I thought of when seeding this idea was to prevent a $#!+-storm if one candidate decided to try to claim the 5th or 16th...

Don't know who this is:
www.SchiffSuperBomb.com - Nov. 5th

 

[bucfish]

Don't know who this is:
www.SchiffSuperBomb.com - Nov. 5th

Looks like Nordstrom

 

[nayjevin]

I see this as a good free market solution, executed nicely - good work OP.

I suggest a link to the history of the site, an explanation and some videos highlighting the original moneybomb day. Maybe even links to a bittorrent of V.

I like the concept of letting candidates rise as they gain more pledges, but on the other hand, this is a natural 'rich get richer' situation as the further down the pages a candidate is, the less likely that candidate will be viewed.

I would consider them all being on the main page, with the lowest pledges ranked first, highest pledges ranked last. If this causes page load problems, I'd consider linking to individual pages for each candidate that have the video, Facebook links, etc. I do like the way the site looks now.

 

[RyanRSheets]

Don't know who this is:
www.SchiffSuperBomb.com - Nov. 5th

If they want to promote it as their own I say we should encourage it. The main thing I want to see is a unified ticker for the day!

 

[RyanRSheets]

I don't like the idea. We had a Rand Paul & Kokesh money bomb on the same day and all it did was overshadow Kokesh's moneybomb.

Are you referring to the September 30th thing? Honestly that was a terrible day for any money bomb. Every candidate is going to push at quarter end.

 

[brandon]

I find this all so silly.... almost embarrassing.

Just donate to whatever candidate you want on whatever day you want. Don't bicker about what the "movement" or some one else should do, as if you have control over it.

 

[bucfish]

Maybe we should also post how much the last winning candidate in specific race spent to win.

 

[SwordOfShannarah]

It seems like there was a glitch with the code that was preventing pledges. I should be fixed now. If anyone has any problem making a pledge please let me know.

 

[Young Paleocon]

There I've pledged to four candidates maybe more later.

 

[JamesButabi]

I like how you give the option to pledge to individuals. I personally would like an option to pledge to a combined bank which gets distributed evenly afterwords. This covers all your bases. Is it possible to have a main ticker with a total on top, then two separate smaller tickers beneath it (one for donations to all candidates via the November 5th site, then one for total contributions from each of the official donor sites?)


Is this a realistic suggestion or would the coding be nightmarish?

 

[bucfish]

I like how you give the option to pledge to individuals. I personally would like an option to pledge to a combined bank which gets distributed evenly afterwords. This covers all your bases. Is it possible to have a main ticker with a total on top, then two separate smaller tickers beneath it (one for donations to all candidates via the November 5th site, then one for total contributions from each of the official donor sites?)


Is this a realistic suggestion or would the coding be nightmarish?

I imagine do to FEC (Gubberment rules) it would be a nightmare and virtually impossible

 

[trey4sports]

absolutely hate the idea.

if you want a multi candidate bomb fine. have schiff, paul, kokesh, and harris as the candidates. (no disrespect) money going to these other candidates is not an efficient use of funds in an unwinnable race

 

[Austin]

It seems like there was a glitch with the code that was preventing pledges. I should be fixed now. If anyone has any problem making a pledge please let me know.

Am I the only one to pledge for Rand so far? krippy at gmail dot com

 

[ronpaulhawaii]

absolutely hate the idea.

if you want a multi candidate bomb fine. have schiff, paul, kokesh, and harris as the candidates. (no disrespect) money going to these other candidates is not an efficient use of funds in an unwinnable race

Hate??? Hmmmm... I'm wodering how much research you have put into... say Bill Hunt's race?

 

[bucfish]

Never under estimate any race. The passion of supporters cannot be measured in monetary form

 

[dr. hfn]

i could only pledge for one candidate...

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

mods can we get a sub-forum for Nov 5th? or at least consolidate the threads?