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You Dropped a Bomb on Me!

Posted:
12/18/07
A money bomb, to be specific. Ron Paul has done it again. Having already set the one-day GOP fundraising record with his "money bomb" homage to Guy Fawkes that brought in $4.3 million dollars in a single day, Congressman Paul has now bested himself with a take of $6 million in symbolic commemoration of the Boston Tea Party. That means Paul has raised more money than any other political candidate in American history in a 24-hour period.

What's astonishing is that the median donation making up this startling total is, according to the Paul campaign, $50. No calculator handy? That's 120,000 thousand donors, give or take. In fact, it looks certain that Paul will out-raise every other GOP candidate for the 4th quarter. Not too shabby.

Further putting wind behind the Ron Paul blimp was yesterday's endorsement by Andrew Sullivan, who mused afterward that he'd never received so much joyful e-mail in his life.

So what does Paul do with all that money? Flood Iowa with volunteers, for one thing.

David Knowles

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