Dean's Bat: Swelling Faster

[tsipple]

The Democratic Candidates Debate seems to have resulted in a surge in Dean's online fundraising. The last hour (7 PM to 8 PM Eastern Time) had over $47,000 in contributions.

Granted, that doesn't match the $300,000 in 20 minutes that Dick Cheney can raise from fat cats. But it's so nice to know that a genuine Democrat can get in the game and represent the little guy.

The $5 million goal will be very tough. (Dean will have to hit a little over $30,000 every hour, day and night, until the end of the quarter to make it.) It's already a great quarter, but there's an ambitious goal still to be met.

I'm fascinated looking at the hourly bat updates. It's a whole lot of fun. And I like looking for my digits in that number. :-)

[Cha]

1. YOu can look for my little "digits", too!

I just contributed ...it's such a fun way to give money to the person you want to be President of the United States Of :dem: America! :kick:

[tsipple]

3. Found this Great Line Re: Dean's Campaign

"The political revolution will no longer be televised."

The Internet is coming of age in politics. It's like 1960 and Kennedy-Nixon.

[sfecap]

6. tsipple...

Is the Pilots for Dean site yours?

[tsipple]

10. Yup.

I'm the chief architect of Pilots for Dean. Thanks to DeanSpace for the hard part, the software.

On edit: What do you think? Criticisms OK, too.

[sfecap]

16. Great site! I like it.

Thanks for doing it.

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Like other Dean campaign slogans, that "great line" is stolen.

I know you Deanies don't care but don't understand why you don't care.

:shrug:

[tsipple]

11. Actually, Not an Official Slogan By Any Means

And, yes, of course I know it's not new -- although its application to this particular medium may be.

Found it at DeanDefense.org, by the way.

[EagleEye]

15. What does it matter? Did Dean say he penned?

[MercutioATC]

17. "Dem Bones, Dem Bones" is "stolen", for that matter....

:eyes:

[Cha]

22. Good one! I never know what to say sometimes! That is so

Perfect for the occasion!

[Andromeda]

31. Yeah, Dem Bones, Dem Bones...

Dem Dry Bones and on and on and on...an old gospel song if I'm not mistaken. Not exactly original is it? I guess DB must have STOLEN it then.

edited for spelling.

[cprise]

18. From telegenic To comprehensive and no-nonsense

That's a revolution in politics I could live with!

[DianeK]

20. forgive my gushing but...

zidzi is a man after my own heart..love you babe

[Cha]

21. Diane! I'm a female girl!

:hi:

[stickdog]

27. Then allow me to gush as well.

;-)

[pruner]

2. they're a lot closer to $5 million than you'd think

it's not just online donations that are counted… it's all funds raised during the period Sept 21-Sept 30, online & offline.

snail mailed donations have also not yet been added to the tally.

the coordinated house parties & world record-setting conferenence call are also sure to generate tons of donations.

[madfloridian]

4. Right, several hundred already donated at our local house call.

Multiply that by the ones over the country.

[tsipple]

7. Fingers Crossed

This is still going to be very tough. I had to gasp when Trippi set up five bats like that.

In other news, it looks like the 450,000 registered Deaniacs goal will be smashed for the end of quarter. Only 22,469 to go to make that total, as of a few hours ago. I see that happening.

In still other news, Pilots for Dean has some updates to the Bush TFR and ATC privatization stories. My thanks to the DeanSpace team for creating some wonderful semi-instant software to create nice grassroots web sites.

[jab105]

23. I'm using that software also for my local dean web....

its pretty cool...am trying to customize, but since someone else set up the seb server info, and didnt give me the password...I cant get in there yet to modify, am itching to start playing around, deanspace is really a powerful script.....

this is what it looks like now:
http://www.gainesvillefordean.com

this is what its going to look like eventually:
http://www.understandingpolitics.com/dean/testbrenda.html

[Doctor Pedantic]

8. Good Point

I've been invited to several different fundraisers, from breakfast till late at night, that are between $100 and $500 each. I'm going to one of them (the more expensive "VIP event" at Union Station), and I'm guessing he'll easily raise $500K-$1 million on just that one day via personal appearances.

If my wife ever figures out how much I've donated, she may take a bat to me...but it'll be worth it!

[alphafemale]

12. Yep. The House Party $$$ will send it over the top.

Little doubt.

It also looks like the goal of 450,000 website members will be met.

I was probably more staggered by that goal than the 5 bats, since we started the month with 347,000? I think? Something like that.

[sfecap]

5. Kerry's little hammer....

...well, we won't go there.

LOL.

[alphafemale]

13. Please. Let's keep our focus on Bush.

;-)

[tsipple]

14. About $27,300 Last Hour

Need... More...

[tsipple]

19. 25% of Goal Achieved!

We're a quarter of the way there! Five days to go...

[UnapologeticLiberal]

25. Alright!

I am 4/5 of the way to my goal for now, if anyone wants to help:


My Goal: $500
Achieved: $400
Contribute

[deutsey]

24. I just noticed that this total is as of 2 AM!

I was impressed until I saw that...NOW I'm blown away! When they update the total, it should be one enormous leap.

[deutsey]

26. Lookin' good!

I hope we put the second bat away this weekend...

[DrFunkenstein]

28. Dean's Bat Is Swelling?

That's a little more than I needed to know!

:puffpiece:

[Desertrose]

40. thought this was an X rated piece

kidding guys- but you gotta admit this is a funny one...

Dean's bat is swelling?? OMG how embarassing!!! ROFLMAO
Glad there is no visual...

sorry...late nite sillies I guess.....just caught me funny....
peace
DR

[deutsey]

29. Cool.

We're almost halfway there!

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

30. Kick for the good doctor

I can't wait until Sept. 30!

[carpetbagger]

38. Just don't kick his swelling bat.

That hurts.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

32. Hey Bat Watchers...

Check it out, the bat is on fire today!

[deutsey]

33. It needs to be...

not a lot of time left.

Although, raising close to $2 million in just seven days is pretty damn impressive by itself.

[Rose Siding]

34. The msnbc embed's report

had Trippi saying there are bags of checks on the wall of HQ- so many that they are concerned about being able to report it all by the deadline.

I think that a chunk of that is relevant to the online drive because I know the last time, I sent a check in response as soon as the bat went up.

[Pavlovs DiOgie]

35. Go Bat Go!

If Dean gets his $5M, he will truly be unstoppable. :bounce:

[deutsey]

36. Almost $2 million!

In just a week...well, I know Bush takes only two or three corporate dinners to raise this much, but close to 28,000 contributors are still naive enough, American enough to think they have a say in this country.

Go Dean!

[deutsey]

37. At this rate the second bat will be cracked by tomorrow morning!

:bounce:

[tsipple]

39. I think the $2M Should Be Overnight

Come on, Saturday night/Sunday morning insomniacs!

[CMT]

41. closing in on $2 million

with houseparties and late donators I think we will have a big closing.

[LizW]

42. Over $2 million now!

http://www.deanforamerica.com/

$2,036,831.00 from 29,881 contributors at 11:00 EDT on Sunday.:)

[Demobrat]

43. What just happened?

Is that the quarterly total?

[Ediacara]

44. WTF!?

They added $10M in an hour? Or is this the quarterly total?

[KaraokeKarlton]

45. Gotta be quarterly

And they are shooting for $15 million in total. I'm sure they will get it, too. There is so much that hasn't even been counted.

[Ediacara]

46. totally

I read a story the other day about their offices overflowing with mail-in donations. They're afraid they won't be able to open them all before the end of the quarter to get an accurate count! This is pretty damn increadible!