Ron Paul’s Amazing Fourth Quarter Numbers
Prediction: Ron Paul will raise $17-20 million in the fourth quarter, enough to lead all Republican candidates.
Mainstream media pundits and political experts were shocked when Ron Paul raised $5 million in the third quarter, and stunned when he raised $4 million more on November 5th. They were forced to admit that Ron Paul will be a much bigger factor in the primaries than they had initially predicted, but many continue to repeat the discredited idea that his surprising success is due to a small number of highly committed supporters.
Ron Paul's fourth quarter numbers will absolutely destroy that myth.
Ron Paul has raised over $9 million since October 1st, bringing his total for the year to over $17 million. Since the campaign started tracking all online contributions on their website, over 103,000 donations have been made this quarter, at an average of $87 each, according to RonPaulGraphs.com. These are already top tier numbers for a full quarter, and it's only November 23rd.
Bloomberg.com is reporting that Ron Paul expects to top his twelve-million-dollar fourth quarter goal, but they are seeing only the tip of the iceberg. A huge fundraising event is planned for the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on December 16th, and a separate effort is underway for November 30th. The Tea Party event has over 19,000 supporters signed up to donate at least $100 each, exceeding the number of people who signed up for November 5th, with three weeks remaining.
Assuming that daily donations continue at their normal non-November 5th pace ($88,000 per day), the campaign will raise another $3 million by the end of the year without even counting the new money bombs. If the December 16th event raises a conservative $5 million, Ron Paul would be looking at $17 million for the quarter. If the Tea Party beats Hillary Clinton's best day of $7 million, and the November 30th effort hits $1 million, Ron Paul would cash in to the tune of $20 million for the fourth quarter.
By way of comparison, only two Republican candidates have raised over $17 million in a quarter so far -- Mitt Romney with $20 million in the first quarter, and Rudy Giuliani with $17 million in the second. Both dropped off to less than $12 million in the third quarter, as their high-dollar contributors maxed out, and grassroots support was slow to develop.
Ron Paul's dollar totals are considerably more impressive, since they are coming from a far greater number of individual donors, in smaller increments. The evidence suggests that Ron Paul doesn't have a small number of very committed supporters, he has a larger number of actual supporters than any of the other Republican candidates.
And it's not just money that's going to the Ron Paul campaign. The number of volunteers signing up, handing out literature, waving signs, attending rallies, and contacting voters in the early primary states for Ron Paul is also far greater than that for the other candidates. Ron Paul now has over 74,000 volunteers signed up in over 1,200 local Meetup groups around the nation, not just meeting online, but taking the campaign to the streets. Approximately 25,000 of those volunteers have signed up since October 1st, another sign of the surging momentum of the Ron Paul campaign.
Only in random telephone polling does Ron Paul still trail, and even those numbers are improving. Ron Paul has hit 5-6% in several national polls, and 7-8% in early primary states like New Hampshire and Nevada where he has started to spend his newfound millions. His name recognition is still significantly lower than that of the better known candidates, giving him the most upside potential as the primaries approach.
Some have questioned whether Ron Paul's massive support on the Internet will translate into votes in the primaries, but judging from the number of financial contributors and the number of supporters actually campaigning in the offline world, Ron Paul's supporters are more committed and better organized than those supporting other candidates. Supporters who have contributed their time and their money are not nearly as likely to stay home on election day as supporters who have only answered a random telephone survey.
Ron Paul is on track to lead the Republican field in fundraising in the fourth quarter. He has more volunteers than all of the other candidates combined. His poll numbers are improving every day, and probably miss a lot of support from voters who don't own landline telephones or who didn't vote in recent Republican primaries. Any way you look at the numbers, Ron Paul is a top tier candidate with momentum building at just the right time. If we continue to spread the word in the early primary states, it won't be just his financial results that will shock the world.
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Mainstream media pundits and political experts were shocked when Ron Paul raised $5 million in the third quarter, and stunned when he raised $4 million more on November 5th. They were forced to admit that Ron Paul will be a much bigger factor in the primaries than they had initially predicted, but many continue to repeat the discredited idea that his surprising success is due to a small number of highly committed supporters.
Ron Paul's fourth quarter numbers will absolutely destroy that myth.
Ron Paul has raised over $9 million since October 1st, bringing his total for the year to over $17 million. Since the campaign started tracking all online contributions on their website, over 103,000 donations have been made this quarter, at an average of $87 each, according to RonPaulGraphs.com. These are already top tier numbers for a full quarter, and it's only November 23rd.
Bloomberg.com is reporting that Ron Paul expects to top his twelve-million-dollar fourth quarter goal, but they are seeing only the tip of the iceberg. A huge fundraising event is planned for the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party on December 16th, and a separate effort is underway for November 30th. The Tea Party event has over 19,000 supporters signed up to donate at least $100 each, exceeding the number of people who signed up for November 5th, with three weeks remaining.
Assuming that daily donations continue at their normal non-November 5th pace ($88,000 per day), the campaign will raise another $3 million by the end of the year without even counting the new money bombs. If the December 16th event raises a conservative $5 million, Ron Paul would be looking at $17 million for the quarter. If the Tea Party beats Hillary Clinton's best day of $7 million, and the November 30th effort hits $1 million, Ron Paul would cash in to the tune of $20 million for the fourth quarter.
By way of comparison, only two Republican candidates have raised over $17 million in a quarter so far -- Mitt Romney with $20 million in the first quarter, and Rudy Giuliani with $17 million in the second. Both dropped off to less than $12 million in the third quarter, as their high-dollar contributors maxed out, and grassroots support was slow to develop.
Ron Paul's dollar totals are considerably more impressive, since they are coming from a far greater number of individual donors, in smaller increments. The evidence suggests that Ron Paul doesn't have a small number of very committed supporters, he has a larger number of actual supporters than any of the other Republican candidates.
And it's not just money that's going to the Ron Paul campaign. The number of volunteers signing up, handing out literature, waving signs, attending rallies, and contacting voters in the early primary states for Ron Paul is also far greater than that for the other candidates. Ron Paul now has over 74,000 volunteers signed up in over 1,200 local Meetup groups around the nation, not just meeting online, but taking the campaign to the streets. Approximately 25,000 of those volunteers have signed up since October 1st, another sign of the surging momentum of the Ron Paul campaign.
Only in random telephone polling does Ron Paul still trail, and even those numbers are improving. Ron Paul has hit 5-6% in several national polls, and 7-8% in early primary states like New Hampshire and Nevada where he has started to spend his newfound millions. His name recognition is still significantly lower than that of the better known candidates, giving him the most upside potential as the primaries approach.
Some have questioned whether Ron Paul's massive support on the Internet will translate into votes in the primaries, but judging from the number of financial contributors and the number of supporters actually campaigning in the offline world, Ron Paul's supporters are more committed and better organized than those supporting other candidates. Supporters who have contributed their time and their money are not nearly as likely to stay home on election day as supporters who have only answered a random telephone survey.
Ron Paul is on track to lead the Republican field in fundraising in the fourth quarter. He has more volunteers than all of the other candidates combined. His poll numbers are improving every day, and probably miss a lot of support from voters who don't own landline telephones or who didn't vote in recent Republican primaries. Any way you look at the numbers, Ron Paul is a top tier candidate with momentum building at just the right time. If we continue to spread the word in the early primary states, it won't be just his financial results that will shock the world.
