Who is, this man??? Why does he want to save, my country?

[scooterbug44]

It's not just large corporations - people do it at the local level as well.

I'm not as impressed by who makes the most $, I'm impressed by who manages it the best! A major factor IMO considering our exponentially increasing debts and budget overruns!

 

[Bdarg]

many large corporations (I want to say "most"), give money to any candidate who they think has a shot in hell chance of winning. They like to remind all politicians that the corporation contributed to their campaign. I wonder if BeachSiO2's Christmas card is still at the top of his politician's tree. lol.

Most of that "many" give to multiple candidates in the same race, i.e. hedging one's bet.

I have seen the average donations of Paul's members, however I have not seen the high/low donor figures. Was it 55,999 giving a buck each and some future defendant of election money launderer charges giving the other $5,940,001? Anytime politics are involved, you have to ask.

 

[ckhagen]

It was 57,668 donors with an average donation size of $103 each. They feed that information to independent grassroots guys who specialize in stats and post it all in charts like here... http://paulcash.slact.net/
If you click on the Tea Party 07 link, you can follow the chart there at the bottom to see the average donation sizes throughout the day.
I know a couple of people who "Maxed Out" to the $2300 mark, but most people I know gave around $50 and the majority of people I know, didn't donate at all (Christmas is coming, makes it rough, myself included). I guess, I'm not really getting how you think your scenario (money laundering?) is possible. These were nearly all credit card donations taken online with the exception of phoned in donations.

Last quarter, the FEC report showed that his average donation IIRC, was approximately $40 each. We won't know how the other candidates numbers play out until January... they don't have quite the same level of real-time transparancy. We really have no clue how much they've even raised, much less the number of donors or size of donation. That will come with the FEC report in January.

Not really related to fundraising, but I was checking this out today... http://blog.compete.com/2007/12/11/...in-huckabee-thompson-if-clicks-equaled-votes/
They also have one that covers DEMs linked on there.

 

[BeachSiO2]

I wonder if BeachSiO2's Christmas card is still at the top of his politician's tree. lol.

Thanks for the plug but it doesn't really matter anymore if they moved it . I found out yesterday that my project survived the Congressional Omnibus process and was funded while many earmarks were completely cut out. Now it will go to the President and we'll see what happens. Thank you sweet little 8lb 6oz baby Jesus for no line item veto ;-)

 

[BabyJesus]

It wasn't me.