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Surge in Edwards' online fundraising

by: Chris Woods

Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 14:22:04 PM CST

UPDATE (3:40 PM): I just got a fundraising email from Joe Trippi on behalf of the Edwards campaign. Seems like they're going to keep piling on the money today. -Chris

I'm not one big on making releases front-page material here on BH, but I'll try to condense this release from the Edwards Campaign to something we can talk about, with the full release available here:

"We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the response to Sen. Edwards' strong finish in Iowa," said Edwards' senior strategist Joe Trippi. "We're on track for our best online fundraising day ever, since www.JohnEdwards.com went up a year ago - and half of the contributions we're seeing are from new donors to the campaign. That speaks volumes to the strength of John Edwards' message of standing up and fighting for the middle class."
The campaign first saw an uptick in online fundraising late last night, as the results from Iowa's first-in-the-nation contest began rolling in. The surge continued overnight, and by 8:45am ET this morning the campaign's online contributions had already topped the previous day's day-long total. Between the hours of 10:00am and 11:00am ET today, the campaign experienced its best online fundraising hour ever."

I'm not sure what this means in the grand scheme of online fundraising for the top-tier Democrats, or even the Edwards campaign itself since there aren't really specific numbers and totals. However, I think it will be really interesting to see what Obama and Clinton are seeing in terms of their own online fundraising and I hope they put out some information about those numbers soon.

A couple other quick facts from the Edwards campaign:

Half of those who have contributed are first-time donors to the campaign
More than ninety percent (92.6%) of today's online contributions are for amounts less than $100

Those are some pretty impressive figures. Let me know if you hear of any more numbers or interesting stories.

Chris Woods :: Surge in Edwards' online fundraising

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How much? (0.00 / 0)

"We're on track for our best online fundraising day ever..."

What was their best day?

by: suereen @ Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 21:15:38 PM CST

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I don't know (0.00 / 0)

They didn't say in the release. I'll send off an email to someone at the campaign tomorrow morning to get any kind of estimate on what the haul was over the last 36 hours, or at least the number of contributors.

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by: Chris Woods @ Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 21:36:52 PM CST

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I don't mean to be mean (0.00 / 0)

but the fundraising emails sounds very much like pure spin.

In another email from Trippi today, I saw this: "We've got incredible momentum coming out of our powerful second-place showing in Iowa." I also saw the Edwards campaign communications director on some talk show this morning, making a similar pitch. I felt bad for the guy, it was almost painful to watch. One of those things where everyone knows you don't even yourself believe the words you are uttering.

Again, I don't mean to be snide or mean. I think I'm talking about reality for Edwards. But still, stranger things have happened in politics. I think Edwards owes it to his supporters to march on, at least a little further.

by: RF @ Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 23:29:00 PM CST

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I'd be furious if he dropped out (0.00 / 0)

Obama has not been tested or vetted as the front-runner. He could falter. It's also possible that as Hillary ratchets up the attacks on Obama, she could implode. Edwards absolutely owes it to his supporters to march on. He is a long-shot but not out of the game.

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by: desmoinesdem @ Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 03:31:27 AM CST

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Emailed the Edwards folks... (0.00 / 0)

But didn't really get anything on the record other than a reiteration of what was in the release. We won't be seeing any official numbers anytime soon since all of the post-caucus fundraising will have been done first quarter of 2008. However, on or around January 31st, it'll be interesting to see if there were any trends in contributions during the holiday season...at least for big contributions. The under-$100 contributors aren't required to be documented with the FEC.

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by: Chris Woods @ Sat Jan 05, 2008 at 17:20:44 PM CST

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Over $1 million (0.00 / 0)

Looks like he's raised over one million dollars since the end of the caucuses.

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by: Chris Woods @ Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 13:56:17 PM CST

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