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Comment by MaysonL

17 years ago

One point to bring it on topic: Obama has by far the best use of the Internet any candidate has ever had. From fundraising to volunteer recruitment to local organization to event coordination, he blows the competition away.

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Darmani  17 years ago 

  Number of Obama Meetup groups: 71
  Number of Obama Meetup group members: 4,037

  Number of Ron Paul Meetup groups: 716
  Number of Ron Paul Meetup group members: 28,870

Source: http://www.ronpaulstats.org/Meetup_Groups.html

  Largest single day online Ron Paul fundraiser: $6.2 million
  Largest single day Barack Obama fundraiser: Errrrmmmm....a lot less.

Of course, if you want to get semantic, I suppose you could say Barack Obama's done a better job using the Internet; the Internet has done more in the way of using Ron Paul.

  • dgabriel  17 years ago

    Not to bag on RP, who is a very interesting candidate, but those fundraising numbers are pretty misleading.

    Let's look at the totals (http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/)

    Barak Obama - $265,439,277 Ron Paul - $34,442,643

    • Darmani  17 years ago

      The comment I was responding to was solely about the Internet. Barack Obama has done much more in the way of the traditional $2000 dinner events, while probably 90% of Ron Paul's funds came over the Internet.