Single-day Fundraising Comparisons
In 2000, after beating George W. Bush in the New Hampshire Republican primary, John McCain raised $1 million online in 24 hours.
When John Kerry accepted the Democratic nomination in 2004, he raised $5.7 million in one day, partly over the Internet.
On January 8, 2007, a one-day call center organized by Mitt Romney raised $3,143,404 in donations ($6.5 million including both donations and pledges).
An anonymous Republican fundraising strategist found a close comparison between moneybombs and smaller Daily Kos fundraising pushes, and looked forward the possibility of "efforts to replicate this performance".
In November 2007, the New York Times and the Associated Press stated that the one-day fundraising record among 2008 presidential candidates was held by Hillary Clinton for raising $6.2 million on June 30, 2007. Other sources awarded Paul the one-day record for the December 16 event, while the Times and AP did not mention Clinton's total in their December coverage.
On December 15, 2007, Dennis Kucinich raised $131,400 from approximately 1,600 donors.
On February 5–6, 2008, in the aftermath of the Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama raised at least $3 million from 7 p.m. to 7 p.m. EST. Between September 3–4, 2008, the night after Sarah Palin gave her speech at the Republican National Convention, Barack Obama raised $10 million from over 130,000 donors.
On November 2, 2009, Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Orlando) raised nearly $570,000 in a one-day moneybomb for his re-election campaign.
On January 11, 2010, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate seat in Massachusetts, Scott Brown, used this method of fundraising to raise well over one million dollars for his campaign.
On October 19, 2011, Ron Paul campaigners conducted a major online fundraiser to counteract what they saw as a blackout of Ron Paul by the mainstream media.
Read more about this topic: Moneybomb
Famous quotes containing the word comparisons:
“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)