Dean Raises $14M in Presidential Race

[MoonAndSun]

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snip>WASHINGTON - Aggressive Internet fund raising helped push Howard Dean (news - web sites) to more than $14 million in the Democratic presidential money race Tuesday, while President Bush (news - web sites) made two last stops to pull in donations as the third fund-raising quarter ended.




Dean still has until midnight to top that amount.

[JNelson6563]

1. Quite a day for the bat!

Exciting to check in once in a while and see the progress. :-)

Julie

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Constantly updating bat every half an hour until midnight

$14,107,672 - 1:30PM ET
$14,127,640 - 2:00PM ET

Averaging close to 20K per half-hour.

Also, rate it a 5 on the Yahoo link above. It's currently at 4.02

Thanks!

Hawkeye-X

[Cha]

3. I guess I could donate a little more just to try and up it a tad!

:toast: to $14,000,000 ..a Good start from small donations for all the work that needs to be done for winning the Presidency!

[realFedUp]

4. and this is what can happen when the nominee is chosen

little amounts from little people....

[Eloriel]

5. WHEN the nominee is chosen BY THE PEOPLE

as opposed, say, to Bill Clinton, the DNC and DLC.

Eloriel

[robbedvoter]

6. Some numbers without $ sign:

> ...."WOODRUFF: Checking in on the Democratic presidential hopefuls,
> Wesley Clark has surged to the front in a new CNN-"USA Today"-Gallup
> poll of registered Democrats in California. The retired general got
> 19 percent, Howard Dean 15 percent and Joe Lieberman 14 percent. All
> the other candidates were in single digits."
>
> This is from yesterday's (9/29/03 Inside Politics transcripts ~
> http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/29/ip.00.html
>

[JaneQPublic]

7. Clark's polling depends on if "General" appears before his name

I heard this on NPR's "All Things Considered" the other day. If the pollsters identify him as a General, he automatically does better than in those polls where everyone is simply identified by name.

And in the CNN-"USA Today"-Gallup poll that Judy Woodruff cites in the above transcript, Clark is indeed identified as "General" and all the other candidates by their respective titles.

Take a look at Question #20 at the following link:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-28-recall-poll.htm

[JaneQPublic]

8. That poll had a margin of error of +/- 6 points

Look at the fine print under Question #20:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-28-recall-poll.htm

"Based on 369 Democrats/Democratic leaners who are registered to vote. For results based on this sample, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±6 percentage points."

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That's a relatively big MOE, considering most polls have a MOE of +/- 3 points.

In other words, Dean could have 21 instead of 15; and Clark could have 13 instead of 19.

Of course, in fairness, Clark could also have 25, but you get my point.

[Cha]

9. I'll take the Govenor over a general any day.

Dean did a lot with being born into his station in life and that is to be admired!

[Mackay]

11. IS THAT JEALOUSY I DETECT IN YOUR POST???

Go Dean!

[realFedUp]

10. and at 2:30 pm west coast time

7 Hours to Go: Full Speed
Your 5 PM bat stands at $14,221,499 through 179,798 contributions.

There was some blog unpleasantness there for a bit, but it didn't stop us and it didn't stop you. We're all in this together. It's our party, it's our country, and it's our democracy that we're talking about here. If we do this together, we cannot fail. If we all act now, once and for all, to stand up for a message of hope, community, and trust in one another, we can achieve it. Now is the time.

At 6:30 PM the CBS Evening News will be featuring a report on your bat. And click "continue reading" for information about attending tonight's taping of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where Governor Dean will be tonight's guest.

[dArKeR]

12. Good luck Dr. President!

Dear dArKeR,

Thank you very much for generously donating $50.00 to Dean for America. Your contribution will be put to immediate use by the campaign to expand our efforts in key states and reach out to literally millions of potential new Dean supporters.

Thank you again!

Dean for America