Posted on 10/01/2007 8:03:53 PM PDT by traviskicks
Rep. Ron Paul is bucking trends in the political money race.
While both Democrats and Republicans in the presidential race are finding it more difficult to pass the hat as their big donors hit federal giving limits, the trajectory for the Texas Republican keeps climbing.
The antiwar libertarian raised more than $3 million in the third quarter, up from $2.4 million in the second quarter and $641,000 in the first three months of the year.
For the three months ended Sept. 30, Paul out-raised old Washington hands including Democrats Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who took in $1.5 million, and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, who raised just under $2 million.
For the year, Paul has collected around $6 million. He remains stuck in national polls at around 5% or less — about the same level of support as another Republican dark horse, Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor.
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I sure as heck hope he doesn’t become the Ross Perot of ‘08.........
He promised $50 million.
By what date? Does it really matter...
He is the Ralph Nader of the right.
Putting another Clinton in the White House, no less.
A WHOPPING 3 million?
LMAO!
I guess that’s lot for small minded people.
I think the numbers are higher than ‘above $3 million’ but we’ll see. He outraised Edwards in the last week (according to both websites) and he definitely raised more than anti-smoker Huckabee. I don’t know how much he raised but his volunteer support that’s getting homemade signs out and telling people about Ron Paul is worth even more.
Paul/Kucinich ‘08!
No more war. He must be quite full of himself.
Well travis, while I support another candidate, Paul supports have been here locally very determined. The only “_____ for Pres” Signs I have seen are Ron Paul, and bumper stickers as well. No one else has gotten out so far, maybe they feel it is too early. Just what I have noticed anyway.
The article is pure speculation. They haven’t even looked at the paypal account yet.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=21597
I mean, wow, look at those numbers.. He just got by Joe Biden ($2 Million) and closed in on Bill Richardson’s numbers ($5.2 Million).
Not a single vote in the primary has been cast yet, so it’s a little early for Ross Perot comparisons.
I hope Ron Paul has a medical plan for those who work making those signs to the point of exaustion, like those who work the internet "voting" on polls to drive Ron above 1%. must cost alot to be laid up in the hospital giving your all for Paul.... hahaha
WOW! That is half as much as Barry Obama made in ONE NIGHT last month.
Oh please. Anybody can run against Hillary and reach those numbers. She’s just that unpopular with a significant percentage of the population who wouldn’t vote for her even if she ran against Satan.
I’ll say this. Ron Paul may be the one candidate that would actually get me to consider voting for Hillary. Or perhaps writing in a vote for Satan.
I’m guessing that some Saudi prince has been getting his employees to “donate” to Paul.
Apparently Paul is doing well. He can take a dollar and make it go further than a lot of the other candidates...
Has anyone heard how some of the others are doing outside of the top tier?
Hunter
Tancredo
Brownback
Huckabee
Keyes
Any speculation on their Numbers?
well I think one question the GOP has to ask itself is how much are all these volunteer supporters worth and how crucial might they be in the general election. I mean, there are 50,000 Ron Paul meetup members and growing.
When I posted the previous story about Paul beating hillary, I sort of did it tounge in cheek, as sort of an unlikely possibility, worthy of nothing more than a abstract intellectual political argument; but now I think it merits more serious consideration, although, of course, it is still quite early...
If these arguments have merit, and for some that might be a big ‘if’, I think the questions Conservative Republicans ought to be themselves are:
1)Is it worthwhile to give up what regrets I may have about Paul’s foreign policy in order to get a dream domestic agenda?
2)What if Paul really does offer the best chance at winning the Clinton/Obama ticket in 2008? Will I swallow my foreign policy doubts for domestic freedom?
Boy, George Soros must be made of money!
I dunno, I’d like to see a chart comparing all the candidates’ fund raising this quarter and past quarters, plus money in bank for each. Shouldn’t be that hard to do... I’m sure the blogosphere will come up with it. :)
The thing is I don’t think most campaigns have released their numbers yet, the Paul campaign hasn’t, but they must have leaked something to the WSJ, cuz I doubt that paper would run something like that on mere speculation.
Just how much freedom do you think you will have under Sharia Law?
How much from Soros?
Once the filing date is passed the info will be available on the FEC web site and also Open Secrets. A composite can be made for the year to date, qtr by qtr, etc without a lot of work from the data that will be available.
You are correct that the info being put out is coming from the campaigns themselves which haven’t made the complete filing to the FEC. I think the filing deadline is mid month. But it’s interesting that some of the other campaigns haven’t leaked info to the press as you know they keep some sort of running total on the money coming in.
Lack of info being released only leads to speculation that they aren’t doing very well...... We’ll see. thanks and take care.
well, they were dissapointed last quarter too, too much optimism in the air I guess...
Maybe Paul invested the little money that he got in cattle futures. I hear that they can pay off pretty well.
He has no plans to run as an independent or 3rd party candidate, guys. So please explain to me how he's helping Clinton or whatever, unless Clinton is running as a Republican in the primaries.
“1)Is it worthwhile to give up what regrets I may have about Paul’s foreign policy in order to get a dream domestic agenda?
2)What if Paul really does offer the best chance at winning the Clinton/Obama ticket in 2008? Will I swallow my foreign policy doubts for domestic freedom?”
No. I support Ron Paul because of his Domestic Agenda, his foreign policy agenda invites attack, which is the Libertarian weakness, they cannot fathom mohammedians desire to kill for the sake of killing, the idea that a group, however small, is not subject to Reason’s dictates is outside fo the scope of Libertarians thought processes.
If Ron Paul had been on Flight 77, the Mohamedians would have cut his throat first, and that is what “we” are dealing with day to day.
Every time I see him he blames Saudi Arabia. Where most the hijackers came from and the majority of our ‘foreign fighters’ in Iraq and Aghanistan, including OBL come from. I think he has a clear view of the threat and isn’t afraid to say what it is because of the lip service the king give us. Odd thing is that’s where the mecca is. I think he understands the Islamic threat quite well.
He might understand the Islamic threat but he has no idea how to fight it. He would have us sit on our hands and do nothing. Whether some believe we shouldn’t be in Iraq or not, it makes no difference to the jihadists. As far as they are concerned, Iraq and every other country in the Middle East is theirs. That’s why the troops keep killing them. They need to die our way instead of dying here their way with bombs strapped to their bodies.
Well, speaking of campaign signs, if it’s any consolation, the two gay guys who live two floors below me now have a Hillary ‘08 sign in their bedroom window.
Maybe Ron Paul could get some of that action.
You go girl...
Reminds me of the time I sent money to the Sharpton campaign.
SOROS money! No doubt!!
Hell no. I’d vote for most of the Democrats running before I’d ever vote for Ron Paul.
I’d volunteer for Hillary Clinton is Ron Paul was the GOP nominee. Thankfully, he won’t be.
Get real. All of Dr. Paul's money came from individuals.
Some people still have trouble understanding that in the real world, away from FreeRepublic, there's a very large number of disaffected voters--in fact, a large number of potential voters who are so turned off by the duopoly candidates of recent years they never even bothered to register with either party, if at all.
Candidates who defy the Washington establishment, who don't let their party's insiders draw up their issue papers, who refuse to accept PAC money as well as "matching federal funding" are rare as hen's teeth. "Everybody knows" that to win a national election you have to go along with the pros who, as a general rule, have not one ideological bone in their (often overweight) bodies. You play the political game by their rules: make the right gestures to women, minorities, unions and/or big business; get endorsements from party big-shots who, deep down, hate your guts but wouldn't mind taking a cabinet position in your administration, if only to write a bestselling tell-all book when they're tired of it all; and--most importantly--say what wonderful things the current President is doing in [fill in the area] and how "I promise to continue this enlightened policy."
Now along comes this anti-establishment candidate for President, Congressman Ron Paul, who willfully ignores each and every accepted rule for a winning presidential campaign. He criticizes the incumbent president of his own party; he refuses to kowtow to either business or labor; he could care less what the feminists (or the anti-feminists, or the gays or the anti-gays) think of him; he won't take PAC money, preferring small contributions from lotsa individuals.
And guess what? He's getting them.
Just saw a video clip of Paul on the old Morton Downy show, he was just as big a loony as he is now...legalize drugs...Bush 41 was a mad man...etc..etc...Paul is no Ross Perot...lol
Good. That’s money that won’t be going to support al-Qaeda.
I get your meaning, but let's have a look at some differences, shall we?
Ross Perot ran on the Reform party ticket, which was very new at the time. Ron Paul is running on the Republican ticket, which means that if he gets the nomination, there will be countless hundreds of party faithful lining up to vote for him in the general election.
Ross Perot was essentially a one-issue candidate, and while that same issue is still with us, Ron Paul is far more diverse, convering everysingle issue we can think of.
Ross Perot was mostly self-funded as I recall. Ron Paul receives the majority of his funding from individuals donating small amounts.
Ross Perot lost the general election, but Dr. Ron Paul is the only Republican running who could actually win.
I'll repeat that last part for those of you in Rio Linda:
Dr. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the only Republican who could actually win against any demoncrat now in the race.
That is an interesting question.
May I assume you would like to know what kind of people these are? If so, then here is my impression:
Ron Paul is drawing support from a variety of people, the old-line conservatives, of course, and the recently dissillusioned Republicans, to be sure, but also some who have not been very much involved in any political activity to date.
These new folks are fired up because for the first time in living memory there is a candidate for POTUS who is not like all the others, and the people are excited!
After all the "politics as usual" over the course of the past several decades, these people are very much favorably impressed that there even is such a man, and that he is running on the Republican Party ticket.
IMO, this new mix is just what the country needs to break the cycle of "politics as usual".
You are not the only FReeper who has said that.
Why are you folks posting on a conservative website?
Such hyperbole should be challenged.
Are you on the correct site? (please take a moment to check)
If you're still here, please tell us why you posted what you did.
Can you explain why "most democrats" would receive your vote over Ron Paul (R-Texas)?
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