Inside Ron Paul's Fundraising Numbers

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Ron Paul

CBS News' Joy Lin reports:

The Ron Paul campaign has released a preliminary breakdown of the $5.08 million it raised during the third quarter. The number of donors to Paul's campaign increased from 8,528 to 21,642. 81 percent of the third-quarter total, or 17,461, were new contributors. With Mitt Romney's campaign reporting 23,000 new donors in the 3rd quarter, that puts Paul in the neighborhood of the former Massachusetts governor. Still, Romney raised a total of $18.5 million in the third quarter, $8.5 million of which came from one repeat donor: Romney himself.

The average donation to Paul's campaign was $94.38 and the median was $45.52. Worth noting: The number of contributions to the Paul campaign in the third quarter, 51,696, is more than double the number of actual donors, which means that the average donor likely gave more than once to the Paul campaign. At least 70% of the donations came online, according to campaign spokesman Jesse Benton, and it appeared (anecdotally) that the rate of contributions increased with the implementation of PayPal as a payment system.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by sirgumball October 14, 2007 2:35 PM EDT: I would like to add that I first heard of Ron Paul by watching the debates and donated to a presidential campaign for the first time. I will continue to donate as much as I can from my paychecks to help Dr. Paul get his message out, I''ve never had so much hope for our nation. We need Ron Paul!; Reply to this comment


by tumbleweeder October 13, 2007 9:08 PM EDT: That''s right. They ain''t seen nothing yet. Ron Paul has got the best campaign managers available...We The People. Ron gained over $100,000.00 in campaign contributions in less than 24 hours on the internet after the debate, and they are still coming. WOW! Nice.(what polls?). Ron Paul has won more straw polls than any other republican candidate. Here are Ron''s results of the last five, where he placed and percentage of votes received...Tulsa State Fair, Oklahoma 10/07/2007 (1st) 41.5%... Oregon Straw Poll- Portland, Oregon 10/06/2007 (1st) 67.0%... Gwinnett County GOP, Atlanta, Georgia 9/30/2007 (1st) 36.2%... CWA New Jersey GOP Straw Poll 9/29/2007 (1st) 77.0%... South Sound Ronald Reagan Republican Club 9/26/2007 (1st) 35.0%...More detailed results of all of the straw polls available at the Ron Paul campaign site. Click on the straw poll results box down on the right hand side of the main page. These are real results of real votes by real people.; Reply to this comment


by cfin5 October 12, 2007 10:20 PM EDT: You ain''t seen nothing yet. Wait till a few months before the election!....Ron Paul, Americas best voting record candidate for ''08! Go USA!!; Reply to this comment