Hillary's Women (interesting facts about fundraising)

[displacedtexan]

Mods, I haven't seen this posted, but delete if it's a dupe. Thanks.

Hillary's Women

by: Matt Stoller
Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 20:48

Let's put the Obama activist and donor numbers in perspective - 650,000 donors is a lot, but John Kerry had around 2 million donors, and George Bush had roughly as many. Richard Viguerie and Roger Craver, direct mail gurus, have frequently noted that there are roughly 10 million political direct mail donors in this country total, though that number might have changed. What is novel about the Obama campaign is not the number of donors but the involvement of those people in his campaign. They are working in caucuses and volunteering, not just giving. This has been a strategy since the beginning.

What is remarkable about the last 48 hours is the haul by the Hillary Clinton campaign of around $7 million from 45,000 online donors or so.

I find the Kerry numbers interesting. Anyone remember what the Dean numbers were?

[enki23]

1. kerry had about 3 million *overall*

in terms of his online "email list" that is. which would be comparable to the sort of numbers we're throwing around here. however, that's the overall number for his full run through the end of the *general election.* and somehow i have serious doubts he had 2 million, two-thirds of his ultimate number, during his *primary*. that's especially true considering how (relatively) quickly the primary season was decided in 2004.

apples. <> oranges.

[displacedtexan]

2. Thanks.

Those numbers looked weird to me.

On edit: I thought Dean ruled the online donations. Am I wrong?

[blogslut]

3. 7 million / 45,000

Averages out to $155.00 a pop.

7 million / 650,000 averages out to $10.00 a pop.

At least, by my crappy math. The moar you know!