Q3 Fundraising FACTS: Out of 766,000 donations, 98% were less than $250 w/no PAC money accepted

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Thu Oct-13-11 12:07 PM
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Q3 Fundraising FACTS: Out of 766,000 donations, 98% were less than $250 w/no PAC money accepted

Edited on Thu Oct-13-11 12:27 PM by ClarkUSA

In Q2, the Obama campaign picked up more than 260,000 new donors and had more people donate in total than all of 2007. This time, Obama 2012 received contributions from more than 250,000 new individual donors.

Just as in 2008, the people-powered Obama campaign stands alone in not accepting PAC money. The article below also puts to rest the false narrative first put forth by a random MSM soundbite that President Obama expects to raise $1 billion:

President Obama’s campaign raised more than $42 million in the third quarter of the year... In addition to the money raised directly for his campaign, Mr. Obama helped the Democratic National Committee raise $27.3 million for a combined total of nearly $70 million during July, August and September.

Jim Messina, the campaign manager, announced in an e-mail to the president’s supporters that 606,207 people donated to BarackObama.com, including more than 250,000 who had never contributed to the president before... the Obama campaign, Mr. Messina said, was using its early fund-raising to set up campaign offices and build a ground infrastructure... “That support translates directly to what we can do on the ground,” Mr. Messina said. “In the past three months we’ve grown our organizing staff by 50 percent, and opened up three new field offices every week.”...Mr. Obama and his aides have said they plan to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for his re-election campaign in anticipation of a flood of corporate money into groups that are raising money on behalf of his Republican opponents.

“We’re up against a Republican Party and special interest-funded groups that will spend hundreds of millions of dollars spreading any message that they believe will defeat the president and roll back our efforts to build a fairer economy that rewards hard work and responsibility, not large corporations,” Mr. Messina said in the email Thursday morning... The campaign is hoping to surpass the million-donor mark in the coming days, and on Thursday pressed for additional donations.

“Getting to a million grassroots donors isn’t just a huge accomplishment this early in the campaign,” Mr. Messina wrote. “It’s our answer to our opponents, the press, and anyone who wants to know whether the president’s supporters have his back.”.... The Obama campaign said on Thursday that of about 766,000 donations the campaign received during the third quarter, about 98 percent came in increments of $250 or less.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/obama-raises-more-than-42-million-for-campaign/?hp

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