Comment by 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.
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
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.