We've achieved 89 % of our 500,000 goal (448,995)! (n/t)

[Triana]

[tridim]

1. Beautiful!

And remember the original goal was only 100k. In that case, we're at 449%.

[firefox]

2. 90%

Things slowed down overnight but are moving swiftly now.

1:25 - 447,525

1:35 - 448,284 769 in ten minutes

1:45 - 448,929 645 in ten minutes

1:50 - 449,527 698 in five minutes

1:55 - 449,867 340 in five minutes

2:00 - 449,956 89 in five minutes

It reached 450,000 at 2:01PM

2:05- 450,693 737 in five minutes Zoom>Zoom>Zoom

2:15 - 451,396 703 in ten minutes

2:30 - 452,438 1,142 in 15 minutes - 4568 signatures per hour

2:45 - 453,446 1,008 in 15 minutes - 4032 signatures per hour

ETA 11PM EDST

Don't you think that Conyer's staff and MoveOn have pools on when the 500,000 is reached? It has a good chance of coming before midnight in the east.

I can see now that the Internet will yield a new expression. That expression will be "Signatures per hour" which will then yield "SPH" or "sph" At 2:53 a Yahoo search for "signatures per hour" yielded 140 results. The first results talk about people paid to gather signatures like for propositions in California. That result number is destined to change dramatically this year.

[Triana]

3. I keep wondering what it will be next Thursday...

..when Conyers has his hearing and walks the letter demanding answers to shithead's office. Think we'll make a million? I hope all the sigs are valid too. Wouldn't put it past Repugs to all go sign bogus names/email addresses/info to up the numbers, then they turn out to be invalid.

I wonder if Conyer's 'march' and hearings will be televised or even mentioned in the MSM.

[Javaman]

7. I have a feeling once we get 500K he will ask for a million...

[Tamyrlin79]

9. I disagree...

We have to play the expectations game here, too. If you ask for a million and only get 700,000... well, that doesn't look good. Better to say you asked for 500,000 and got 700,000.

Should we keep up the push? Sure. But, we have now "used up" the moveon resource. Certainly not all their members have signed (last I heard they had 2 million on their mailing list), but I doubt if we would get a whole heap more with a new e-mail alert on the subject.

So, the question remains, where will we get the other 4-500,000 signatures? There aren't many more orgs out there like Moveon. Not impossible, but harder simply due to the law of decreasing returns.

[Javaman]

10. I know I can dig deeper for sigs...

I have begun the mass emailing. My last round was just word of mouth.

[intheflow]

22. I think he'll get 1M whether he asks for them or not.

Late yesterday I sent out an email to two justice and peace list servs I'm on. I'm sure I'm not the only one. And absolutely everyone I told about it word of mouth logged on immediately and signed the letter. If he continues gaining signatures at this rate, he'll easily have 3/4 of a million by week's end, and I just don't see it stopping any time soon.

[cliss]

4. Nice.

I'm going to sign it.

[firefox]

5. 3PM EDST

3PM - 454,389 - 953 in 15 minutes - 3812 signatures per hour

3:15 - 455,182 - 793 in 15 minutes - 3172 signatures per hour

3:30 - 456,018 - 836 in 15 minutes - 3344 signatures per hour

3:45 - 456,934 - 916 in 15 minutes - 3664 signatures per hour

[firefox]

6. 4PM

4PM - 457,844 - 910 in 15 minutes - 3640 signatures per hour

4:15 - 458,663 - 819 in 15 minutes - 3276 signatures per hour

4:30 - 459,622 - 959 in 15 minutes - 3836 signatures per hour

4:45 - 460,357 - 735 in 15 minutes - 2940 signatures per hour(chugging)

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures

[firefox]

8. 5PM

5PM - 461,002 - 645 in 15 minutes- 2580 signatures per hour

5:15 - 461,864 - 862 in 15 minutes- 3448 signatures per hour(closing with attitude)

5:30 - 462,363 - 499 in 15 minutes- 1996 signatures per hour (we can still coast from here)

5:45 - 463,076 - 713 in 15 minutes - 2852 signatures per hour

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures

[LunaC]

11. Thanks for the updates ~ kick

[Catrina]

12. Yes, thanks

We're nearly there:

We've achieved 92 % of our 500,000 goal (463,350)!

I have a few more people I can email ~

[firefox]

13. 6PM

6PM - 463,729 - 653 in 15 minutes - 2612 signatures per hour (The sign on MoveOn parties are assembling)

6:15 - 464,460 - 631 in 15 minutes - 2524 signatures per hour (prepare to celebrate)

6:30 - 464,957 - 497 in 15 minutes- 1988 signatures per hour (people are holding off)

6:45 - 465,654 - 697 in 15 minutes - 2988 signatures per hour (gotta end the party by midnight)

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures
5 to 6PM - 2727 signatures

[firefox]

14. 7PM

7PM - 466,222 - 568 in 15 minutes - 2272 signatures/hour (Celebration time come on)

7:15 - 466,796 - 574 in 15 minutes - 2296 signatures/hour

7:30 - 467,230 - 434 in 15 minutes - 1736 signatures/hour (Friday is payday, computers will be coming on shortly)

7:45 - 467,879 - 649 in 15 minutes - 2596 signatures/hour (Any improvement is good news)

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures
5 to 6PM - 2727 signatures
6 to 7PM - 2493 signatures

[firefox]

15. 8 PM

8PM - 468,387 - 508 in 15 minutes- 2032 signatures/hour

8:15 - 468,907 - 520 in 15 minutes- 2080 signatures/hour(don't worry, Californians will finish dinner shortly)

8:30 - 469,278 -in 15 minutes - 1484 signatures/hour (it is just now getting dark in the east)

8:45 - 469,794 - 516 in 15 minutes - 2064 signatures/hour (the rebound begins, it will only get better)

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures
5 to 6PM - 2727 signatures
6 to 7PM - 2493 signatures
7 to 8PM - 2165 signatures
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18,431 in 6 hours

[Vincardog]

16. We've achieved 93 % of our 500,000 goal (468,955)!

[FreedomAngel82]

17. That's great!

Hey the goal might be reached by the end of the weekend!

[firefox]

18. 9PM

9PM - 470,270 - 476 in 15 minutes - 1904 signatures/hour (Is this where we claim mission accomplished?)

9:15 - 470,745 - 475 in 15 minutes - 1900 signatures/hour

9:30 - 471,237 - 488 in 15 minutes - 1952 signatures/hour

9:45 - 471,639 - 402 in 15 minutes - 1608 signatures/hour (okay, its getting disappointing)

2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures
5 to 6PM - 2727 signatures
6 to 7PM - 2493 signatures
7 to 8PM - 2165 signatures
8 to 9PM - 1883 signatures
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20,314 in 7 hours

[firefox]

19. 10 PM

10PM - 472,116 - 477 in 15 minutes - 1948 signatures/hour

10:15 - 472,519 - 403 in 15 minutes - 1612 signatures/hour

10:30 - 473,910 - 391 in 15 minutes - 1584 signatures/hour (We sure could use a blaze of glory.)

10:45 - 474,340 - 430 in 15 minutes - 1720 signature/hour(still squeaking along)

11PM- 473,753 -223 in 15 minutes- 996 per hour- time to shut down and wait for the eventual reaching of the goal


2 to 3PM - 4433 signatures
3 to 4PM - 3455 signatures
4 to 5PM - 3158 signatures
5 to 6PM - 2727 signatures
6 to 7PM - 2493 signatures
7 to 8PM - 2165 signatures
8 to 9PM - 1883 signatures
9 to 10PM- 1946 signatures
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22,260 in 8 hours

[sarahlee]

21. You did good!

Thanks a lot!

[firefox]

20. 95% at 11:51PM

90% came at 2:01PM. Signatures crossed the 95% mark at 11:51PM at 475,024.

At midnight the count was 475,336 which was 1583 signatures for the hour from 11PM and midnight.