What happened to fundraising? Dried up suddenly! 5 worst days.
Submitted by slapshot on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 00:57
Look at the Ron Paul Graphs numbers:
Top 10 BEST fundraising days:
- 2007-12-16 -- $6,043,022 , donors: 59,170
- 2007-11-05 -- $3,994,713 , donors: 38,905
- 2008-01-21 -- $1,850,160 , donors: 24,430
- 2008-02-01 -- $1,042,960 , donors: 12,265
- 2007-11-30 -- $531,438 , donors: 6,780
- 2007-11-06 -- $389,344 , donors: 4,820
- 2007-12-31 -- $387,954 , donors: 4,829
- 2007-12-17 -- $309,815 , donors: 4,055
- 2007-11-20 -- $250,346 , donors: 2,853
- 2007-11-11 -- $233,526 , donors: 3,292
Bottom 10 WORST fundraising days:
- 2008-02-08 -- $20,513 , donors: 302
- 2008-01-15 -- $20,293 , donors: 282
- 2007-12-09 -- $20,063 , donors: 266
- 2007-12-25 -- $19,894 , donors: 269
- 2008-01-18 -- $16,656 , donors: 242
- 2008-02-09 -- $16,102 , donors: 267
- 2008-02-12 -- $14,602 , donors: 223
- 2008-01-13 -- $14,509 , donors: 224
- 2008-02-10 -- $10,805 , donors: 164
- 2008-02-11 -- $6,621 , donors: 128
The last week has been Ron Paul's worst since the campaign started. What can we do to fix this???
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Answer
No media coverage of successes
Too many money bombs
Not enough promotion of just donating, and now
Stop the Witch Hunt !
Stop all the Flagging and TROLL name calling...
Manny PLease get rid of the automatic delete feature for multiple Flagging.
We stand for Freedom but have been allowing so little of it here... its ironic and terribly frustrating.
This is turning off me -- and I am a true supporter - - just think of what it is doing to those on the margins...
Treg
Maybe......
People are waiting for hard proof that RP is mathmatically locked into a brokered convention. Not just assumptions of how it might play out.
I will agree that it is also a viscous circle, no add = no votes. I think once someone or RP post "We are in, no if's and's or but's" the money will come. But......will we die first?
I think maybe a message from RP stating this is how much money we have and this is how far it will take us may help people decide if they would rather give money to the campaign or something else.
There are a lot of good causes these days. Maybe if RP said where the excess money in the campaign would go if he is mathmatically eliminated. That might encourage people to give knowing its going to another good cause.
let's not over react yet
could it be that people have started to donate to the congressional race for the time being? i think it's very close to reaching the 400k goal, so maybe that's where the money is going to.
also, i think the miunderstanding from ron paul's letter after super tuesday, which caused everyone to feel defeated, contributed to the lack of funds.
Still, 35-50% of the money coming is from new folks only though
so we cannot say that new folks are not coming...I would rather be alarmed if the ratio of new folks starts going down...And right now the funds are being donated more to his congressional campaign..we have 300+K in just over a week...not a small amount by any standards
So in a way we are saying that if the existing folks start donating more money we will have more new folks coming in. Hence, the case for "MONEY BOMBS"....
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
Statistics
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Yes, 35-50% may be coming from new donors, but that's because the overall donors are DOWN. . . . There are simply not enough donors (new or old, but especially new), period. We need a win.
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"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels
I thought we already won LA and WA!
Dont't hold your breath on the old media to report "Ron paul is the projected winner in LA and WA"...Hope you have understood that by now!
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
yeah but
he is getting new donors everyday...
been a bad week!
hoping the 18th money bomb will be big!!!
"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Motivation
Too many nay sayers have entered into this forum and it's depressing people. I'm actually thinking about starting a new forum where it will be moderated all day long with any negative statements stricken and ip's being banned. We need optimism and enthusiasm, not pessimism and the so called "realists."
If I get enough requests, I will create one. Just let me know.
Did you factor in the
Did you factor in the donations given for the EXTREMELY RELATED congressional bid at www.ronpaulforcongress.com?
He's at 303k, but we are going for 400k. This is the most important job we can do first.
I wish I had a grand to give to both campaigns, but I don't. I just squeeked out 50 bucks for both...
$$$Bomb on Feb 18th....Presidents Day!!!!
I know that $$$Bombs are tiresome to some supporters.However, they are very effective and this one is scheduled for Presidents Day. If you still can .... DONATE!
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win". --Mahatma Gandhi
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win". --Mahatma Gandhi
I have another post trying to get us to $6MM tonight
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/37821
Anyone with me?
j
John Bernard
its called inflation,
its called inflation, recession and depression times.. paying 6 buck for a gallon of milk hurts! now people need to take care of thiere own pocket books!
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Prov. 22:3; 27:12 KJV)
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Hello. No media coverage
It does make a difference when the media completely blocks him out and there are so many Huckabee trolls all over DIGG. People need to go comment on those sites.
Everyone needs to act locally and get ads going.
Vicious cycle
Here's the vicious cycle we're caught in:
No money -> no ads
No ads -> no new supporters
No new supporters -> no pressure on media
No pressure on media -> no more coverage
No more coverage -> no more supporters
No more supporters -> no money
It just goes round and round.
But 35-50% of the money coming is from new folks only though
so we cannot say that new folks are not coming...I would rather be alarmed if the ratio of new folks starts going down...And right now the funds are being donated more to his congressional campaign..we have 300+K in just over a week...not a small amount by any standards
So in a way we are saying that if the existing folks start donating more money we will have more new folks coming in. Hence, the case for "MONEY BOMBS"....
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
Hate povery, not the poor - Gandhi
can't access RP website
I haven't been able to go to the site for 2 weeks now. When I try, it says "server cannot be found" every time. I am not a computer savvy person, and I don't know how to access. I don't have a problem with any other site, like daily paul, or ronpaulforums, etc. so at least I can keep current. But I cannot donate anymore.
Try this...
Probably a DNS issue on your computer or DNS server. If you are running windows xp try running the command "ipconfig /flushdns" in the start > run... box.
if there is a problem with a dns server
you can open your tcp/ip properties and force another dns server such as
http://www.opendns.com/
The name servers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.
"Endless money forms the sinews of war." - Cicero, www.freedomshift.blogspot.com
worked!
Thanks, I added opendns and now I can access.
Congrats! We should spread the word
We should spread the word that all it takes is a DNS fix to get back online!
Thanks, I tried several
Thanks, I tried several things to no avail. But, I discovered that I can access from RP's My Space page, so at least I can get there.
Thanks! Maybe we need a tech support thread?
Should there be a thread for people who need tech support? It seems to be happening to a few people.
If combined with his
If combined with his congressional fundraising, it's probably not so bad. And now there's 10,000 buses we need to charter.
I don't think we can charter
I don't think we can charter that many buses. Can we?
other priorities, still on course
As others have mentioned, the congressional campaign needed cash, there is a billboard that is now up, and a race car that is asking for help. I you look at the overall course, we are still doing fine. What I mean is that last quarter, the campaign goal was $12 million (if you take out the $4 mil and $6 mil money bomb days, we didn't meet it, but we did still beat every other Republican candidate's fundraising). Right now we are sitting on the verge of $6 million raised, which is almost $1million per week.
No other Republican has been able to keep up with those totals. Keep moving along and we will make it to the convention. There is no way to calculate the value of all the volunteers who have signed up as precinct leaders and delegates. That kind of publicity is better than any ad. The best resource the campaign has isn't your money, it's YOU!!!
Thank You
Some people are asleep at the wheel.
Not so -- McCain raised $7 milion in January
You say: "no other Republican has been able to keep up with those totals."
That's not true. We are getting beat, badly.
McCain raised over $7 million in January. We're still struggling to reach $6 million and it's mid-February.
Get Ron to Run Third party
Simple. When he shut that down, he shut down the enthusiasm for alot of people interested in seeing this through as far as it can go THIS ELECTION SEASON. Frankly, Ron's congressional seat does not serve our cause to save this country as well as another 6 months of NATIONAL campaigning and educating.
"Luctor et Emergo" - Struggle and Emerge