the average donation size for the 5.08 million third quarter donation amount was $40.00 putting him squarely into the grassroots donation territory.
a "lowly" congressman under the radar for 10 years...
...and ALREADY has $5mil?
WA: you accuse RP of being hypocritical, yet his voting recond for the past 20 years is in stark contrast to that, examples please. I bet you were tickled pink with Rudy at the NRA meeting, because HE'S not a hypocrite.
Being a successful and powerful and *effective* politician means that somewhere along the way, you've become friends with people who have lots of money, and are in all the right places.
A conspiracy without facts is just a theory.The one thing we know about money going to Hillary is that little if any of it is coming from Reps who are hoping she'll get the Dem nomination as a way of torpedoing the Dem Party's chances in the election.
The one thing we know about money going to Rudy, Mitt, and Fred is that little if any of it is coming from Dems who are hoping any of them will get the Rep nomination as a way of torpedoing the Rep Party's chances in the election.
But can we say the same thing about Ron Paul's haul? It's assumed to be from grassroots, true-believers, but do we know that for certain? Or is there a Dem game going on as we saw the Dems do with Buchannon and Perot, or the Reps do with Nader?
I'm not saying that's what IS happening; I'm saying it's a real possibility for the Paul campaign that isn't such a possibility for the others I mentioned. Do the Dems see Paul as this election's Nader?
Pure rhetoric. Occasionally, you have folks like Richardson who are playing for the second-position, or people like Nader who are making a statement, or people like Perot who are acting as spoilers. But the vast majority of candidates, and their supporters, believe their guy/gal is "the one person the opponent fears" who will "mop the floor" with the other guy/gal." Otherwise, they wouldn't spend their time and money on their campaigns. Huckabee, Romney, Obama, Edwards, etc. and their supporters would all say similar things about their being matched up with Hillary.The one candidate that Hillary won't want to meet up with is Ron Paul. She can't get to the left of him on the war she voted for, so the anti-war vote is missing from her vote tally right up front. The high tech vote (aka the young vote)? Also Paul's, his internet operation is seeing to that, plus he's an MD, Hillary can't match that, so if the race turns into a health care debate, Paul wins that too. Children's issues? Ron Paul has delivered over 4000 babies into this world, Hillary wrote a book about them. No matter what you look at Clinton can't win against Ron Paul. Triangulation will not work.
The one candidate that Hillary won't want to meet up with is Ron Paul.