The Bat Is Still Going Strong....

[slinkerwink]

Since yesterday, we've gone up $300,000 and it looks like by the fundraising parties tonight, we'll break the goal set from last quarter!

[wtmusic]

1. great job koolaid drinkers

let's defeat * and make it truly Happy New Year!!

:-)

[Brian_Expat]

4. All the Dean bashing last night had an effect on me

I gave him $50. Looks like a lot of other people thought similarly. :)

[tsipple]

63. Please Continue Discussion Here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=292896

That's the Late Breaking News thread. Thanks!

[TeacherCreature]

11. you be a koolaid drinker, I'll be a snotnosed supporter

Yiiiiippppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Go Dean!

[tsipple]

16. I'll Be the Hippie, OK?

Never mind that I'm as far away as you can get from such a label, but whatever.




Note: I know this image violates DU rules for candidate supporters' nicknames, but please take it up with Joe Lieberman's campaign.

[Patriot_Spear]

18. Do they even realize how much this image hurts them?

Amazing.

[polpilot]

23. I'll be the young, politically naive new comer Deaniac!! 1st timer..diaper

dragging Deanie Bunny...Naive Nutcase Newbie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dean '04...polpilot u so stoopid to support dat divisive diabolical demonic caveman Dean. He so baaaad. u so stoopid he done pit yo brain in a berler and cooked yo head!!!!!!!!!yo hed is empty i tell ya. Can you bash your own self??? Are sados outlawed on DU. These are questions that demand answers!!! Viva La FrancE!!!!

O.K. I'm finished. Guess I'll have a message in my box now!! dammit!! dammit!!! dammit!!!

[TeacherCreature]

28. That's the way Deanie Bunny!

Vive Le France, the UN and Germany too! Us ignorant Deanies must stick together!

[TeacherCreature]

27. I have practice being a hippie

I'll be that if you will take over as the snotnose! :7

[Capn Sunshine]

39. Hey! I wanna be the hippie!

:hippie:

[Fleshdancer]

43. I'll play the part of the evil republican plant!

bwaahaahaa! :evilgrin:

[Scott Lee]

2. The Christmas chill is over. The wallets are open.

Gosh, aren't you really going to MISS all those "Dean Fundraising Slumps" threads, Slink?

*single tear runs down Scott Lee's cheek*

[slinkerwink]

3. heh, me too....

*wipes away fake tear* oh god, the bat is in a slump!....wait....hey, it looks like the bat is no longer in a slump!

[Brian_Expat]

5. The only things slumping. . .

. . . are the shoulders of Karl Rove. :)

[Chryslin]

6. Again, SO proud to be a part of this

Howard Dean will be a great President. I'm looking forward to partying on January 20th, 2005 with our new Democratic President!

[Brian_Expat]

8. But he cannot win. . .

I mean, look at all the historical reasons:

In 2002, he polled at just 2%. . . hey, wait a minute. . .

In 2003, he opposed the Iraq War, knocking him out of the mainstream! Hey, wait a minute. . .

In late 03 a new capable candidate entered the race who lavished praise in Bush's foreign policy and team and was annointed to crush him. . . Hey, wait a minute. . .

In Iowa, certain Democrats ran attack ads against Dean that were designed to knock him into the single digit %. . . hey, wait a minute. . .

Then during the holidays, his fundraising machine ground to a halt. . . hey, wait a minute. . . :)

The low expectations of the cynics and naysayers have been our best friends to date, and I expect that trend to continue all the way to 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue. :)

[Bucky]

10. 1200?

1600

[shivaji]

44. I am laughing my a$$ off

:-) :) good humorous post!

[Lisa0825]

7. Happy New Year!!!

:party: :toast: :party:

[Padraig18]

9. I sent my last $100 today.

I'm maxed out for contributing! :)

[Patriot_Spear]

12. Just made another donation....

Go Howard, GO!

[tsipple]

13. I Keep Finding Cool Dean Stuff

Here's a Dean desktop wallpaper site, for example. (Click on the image below.)





It's so nice to have fun as part of a campaign, isn't it?

[tsipple]

14. Whoa! $24,942.63 in One Hour!

If anyone else is so moved, it sure would be nice if you gave to the Pilots for Dean bat. (Ends up in the same Dean bank account, of course.) See below for details.

[slinkerwink]

19. round it out to $25,000.....

;-) The bat is definitely on fire!

Batter, swing, batter, swing, batter, swing, we've hit a home run!

:bounce:

[Atlant]

15. I just kicked the bat up a little higher...

...by fulfilling the pledge I made during the "Matching Funds?" vote.

Hey, Al Gore asked -- who am I to say no? :)

Atlant

[DianeK]

17. didn't i read somewhere

that dean has peaked?

[slinkerwink]

21. heh, watch for more desperate cries of "Dean's peaked!" in 2004

;-)

[HFishbine]

24. He's peaking again: Twin Peaks (n/t)

[slinkerwink]

20. kick

[killbotfactory]

22. 15 million, here we come...

The political landscape will never be the same.

[Tom Rinaldo]

25. Well done. You folks have done great. n/t

[TLM]

26. You know i bet it would be interesting to chart the dean bashing threads

along with the fund raising rates and the bat time.


I bet the line charting Dean bashing threads and the line charting the amount of funds raised would run so damn close to parallel that they'd look like lines on a freeway.

[Upfront]

57. Good Thought

I just gave again, and so did my wife. Go Dr. Dean!!!!!!!!!!!

[unfrigginreal]

29. Go Doc!

I donated to this bat too through a DUers houseparty. :bounce:

[slinkerwink]

30. holy-moly! we're just $250K away from breaking our old record!!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

[Rose Siding]

31. Was that 120,000 in the last hour?

or am I drunk?

[slinkerwink]

32. it was a 70K jump.....and yes, you're drunk

;-) rest up for new year's, y'hear?

[tedoll78]

33. I kicked-in $25 yesternight.

I saw all of the attacks on TV and got really pissed. And then I came on here..

[PBinOregon]

34. Bravo!

May 2004 be the year that is remembered as the new American revolution.

THANKS TO EVERYONE who is joining in. We can do this! We can have the country we've always dreamed of!

[hellhathnofury]

35. Wow, I stop watching for a day and we jump $300,000

I'm going to go hand back some xmas money and get a parent to donate for me. I wish I was 18 and could partake directly.

Edit: Done,$25 my first donation ever, though technically illegal because it didn't come from my father who provided the credit.

[slinkerwink]

37. actually, the supreme court ruling on campaign finance reform

said that anyone over 16 can now donate financially to any political campaign, so you're legal when this ruling takes hold in states ;-)

[hellhathnofury]

47. Wow nice.

The McCain-Feingold ruling right? Didn't know. Thanks.

How can I donate but not vote?

[slinkerwink]

51. that's why it's interesting---it sets up a legal precedent for

voting enfranchisement of those over 16.

[beyurslf]

36. 127,000 more

and over 24 hours. I think we should get it!

[janx]

38. When will the house party donations be figured in?

I just got back from a house party.

[slinkerwink]

40. there'll be a huge jump by tomorrow morning, and we'll break the bat!!!!!

I expect us to hit 15 million by tomorrow......;-)

[janx]

42. I'm assuming that my host and hostess will report online

tonight...? They said they had to put the checks in the mail tomorrow.

[joefree1]

41. Yowza, I can't keep track

What's he bringing in by the hour? The Washington Insiders can kiss my asses!


Images from Dean Rocks the House of Blues, Hollywood
From wtmusic http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=919849
From Joefree1 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=921300

[Hep]

45. I blew away my original goal of $311 for the house party

So I doubled it. Blew that away too. All in all, over $800 raised.

[Tom Rinaldo]

46. A Public Service Announcement

First, I again congratulate you on your fabulously successful efforts this quarter. Very, very impressive.

OK. Something really ugly is starting to be spread around some threads on DU during the late evening hours. An obvious Freeper is posing as a Clark Supporter and posting a politically obscene doctored picture of Dean, along with anti-Dean rants, all in the name of Clark. He has been pretty convincingly debunked on one thread, but initially both some Clark and Dean supporters were taken off guard and related to him as if he were actually supporting Clark. Clark supporters were dismayed, Dean supporters were insulted, and everyone was outraged.

The problem has been enhanced by the actions of at least one professed Dean supporter who has taken that hideous graphic and run with it, posting it onto other DU threads as an example of the actions of hateful Clark supporters. I will leave the link to the thread where the original problem surfaced (there may have been another early outbreak thread, I am not certain). It's all there. The problem poster, the angry reactions, the debunking, and even the efforts by one Dean backer to prolong this ugly divisive intrusion into our mutual ranks. I am not dwelling on the latter, I just mention it so you may stay alert for such claims and question them appropriately.

I won't come back to this thread again to discuss any of this. I suggest that further discussion on this topic, if any, might be moved over there. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=44401&mesg_id=44925&page=

Thank you for your patience in reading this post.

[RetroLounge]

48. kick for the bat!

:kick:

[Polemonium]

49. well I've added my $100

leaving my money where my hope is

[tsipple]

50. Don't Forget to Ask Friends!

I got two more $31.10 contributions last night from non-attendees of the house parties, and they used their credit cards online.

Also, if you're planning a New Year's Eve countdown tonight, how about asking some friends to go to your PC or Mac and make an online contribution before the clock strikes 12?

See my signature if you'd like to send those dollars via the Pilots for Dean mini-bat to the Dean campaign. Thanks, everybody.

And hopefully I'll see some of you in Iowa. I'm going January 2nd to 4th and again 17th to 20th.

[Melinda]

52. Only 50K more to go!

[Fleshdancer]

53. I'm going to donate tonight

It's been really difficult to wait this long, but I want to be a part of that last hour kick on this bat. My 3 yr. old and I are sick right now so there won't be any crazy New Year's party in my immediate future...giving to the bat will be my form of excitement for the evening.

2003 was such a crappy year, I'm glad to be ending it on this note.

[JNelson6563]

54. Sorry to hear that

you and your little one are sick. Nothing worse than a sick baby/child. Makes it all that much worse when you're sick too.

You are right to look ahead to the coming new year. It will be great! Happy New Year to you!!

Julie

[Zomby Woof]

55. this reminds me of the 80's

Pat Robertson and other TV evangelists, obsessed with their fundraising, while losing sight of their alleged purpose. It was always moneymoneymoney, and damn the issues underneath. They took advantage of people's good will, and Dean supporters have fallen in line likewise, fetishizing the dollars and thinking that they "make a difference".

So what if Dean has raised this much? It hasn't bought him any support outside of his 20% base, paid for his gaffes, or made him any more credible in the arena.

It does make him look a bit like Jerry Lewis on Labor Day, plus or minus the painkillers.

YOU'VE GOT THE POWER!!! Well, no, you don't, but it's your money...

[Hep]

56. Some grapes are more sour than others.

I don't think enough people here use the ignore thread feature enough. Seems like they have to post silly, negative comments when they would be better served just ignoring the threads altogether. It's OK. Sadly, some of these folks just don't have the (will) power.

Over 50,000 brand new people donated in this quarter. But we have no new support. Interesting.

[JNelson6563]

61. black is white

and freedom is slavery.

Really something isn't it? I marvel at it.

Julie

[ozone_man]

58. I like your candidate,

but I don't think you are doing such a good job of representing him. Dean has huge grass roots support and it will take a lot of money to defeat Bush. Look at Dean's average contribution and I think you will see that it is not corporate sponsors that are filling his bats, like some candidates. I can hope that Dean will pave the way for people like Kucinich to be electable, but I don't think it will happen this time around.

[Atlant]

59. The bat will hit one out of the park this hour...

If things keep moving along at the usual pace,
there should be a new Dean fundraising record
THIS HOUR.

Atlant
(Who owns a teeny, tiny piece of that record)

[Melinda]

60. Looks like a Grand Slam to me!!!!

$14,846,985.88!!

[tsipple]

62. News Over in Late Breaking News Now...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=292688

This is HUGE news, folks. Congratulations!

[Padraig18]

64. Kick!

:dem:

Dean in '04! :)

[quaker bill]

65. And I will be sending mine in later this evening.

Best news all day.

[unfrigginreal]

66. $40,000 in the last half hour!

Keep showing 'em how it's done Doc! :bounce: :toast: :party:

[slinkerwink]

67. amazing, and it's all due to us!

:toast:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

68. Just closed a $78,000 hour

Damn, this bat is hard to keep up with! Going stronger than even I would have predicted!

[slinkerwink]

69. it looks like we'll hit 15.5 million by midnight tonight!

:hi:

[Padraig18]

70. Wowzers!

:wow:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

72. 15.5 is what I predicted

sometime yesterday, or even the day before. I just felt it in my bones, or then again, maybe I just took a wild guess.

I would be happy to be proven wrong, though, and have it top out at 15.6 or higher.

[JNelson6563]

71. Over 15.2 with 5 hours to go!

Incredible!!

Julie

[unfrigginreal]

73. Hell Yeah! And less than $43,000 from $2 Million on this bat!

:bounce: :bounce: :party: :party: :toast: :toast:

Happy Dean Year to All

[beyurslf]

74. OVER 15 million.

woo hoo!!!!

[RevolutionStartsNow]

75. um, check it out: $35k in the last 30 minutes

And the next update will send the "little bat" to $2Million since Dec. 23. Unbelievable.

[slinkerwink]

76. "we" are unbelievable!

;-)

[RevolutionStartsNow]

78. Yes, we are!

We are doing something very important, and the best part is that we are having fun along the way.

:bounce:

[Walt Starr]

77. I guess this is the place we're supposed to post our congratulations

Since this thread was so old, I'm not sure why, but I suppose this is where we celebrate the record breaking quarter?

:shrug:

[Scott Lee]

79. This guy is phenomenal

Congrats, Howard Dean....Congrats, fellow supporters. You are turning the process upside down, and setting it right at the same time.