The Page: Obama Smashes Fundraising Record. Raises $66 million in August, 500,000 new donors!

[flpoljunkie]

The Senator pulls in $66 million in August, and added 500,000 new donors.

Previous best month saw $55 million.



Developing....

http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/14/obama-smashes-his-fundraising-record/

[Hope And Change]

1. Yay...K & R!!

:bounce:

[Kdillard]

2. OMG. That is wonderful and it appears he will need every penny to fight the swiftboaters.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Woohooo ! Take that McNasty !!

[quantass]

4. AMAZING!!!

[renie408]

5. Holy MOLY!! I was one of those new donors! n/t

[flpoljunkie]

7. That's great, renie408!

[annabanana]

6. The Sarah Palin effect!!

All you have to do is look at GD: P to know how energizing this waste of air has been for our "base".

[Pirate Smile]

14. The $10 million after her speech will be in September. We only had a couple of days

after her announcement in August. It wasn't until September that we really found out how nasty she is and people started pouring money into the Obama campaign.

[ClarkUSA]

17. Actually, no. Obama raised $10M in the 24 hours after her convention speech.

So it appears that Palin helped Team Obama break their record.

[Pirate Smile]

28. Her convention speech was in September so it isn't counted in the August numbers.

[Diamonique]

8. Dayum!

I sure hope that pans out to be true!

[johnnyrocket]

9. I'm one of the 500.000 also...Obama needs to fight fight fight!

and beat these Republican scum.

[Tammie]

13. I'm also one of the 500,000.

Felt damn good, so good I'm going to do it again.

[bunkerbuster1]

24. Yup, me too.

[tekisui]

10. How many individual donors is he up to now? 2 million? 2.5?

[MoJoWorkin]

11. I believe he was over 2 million BEFORE this latest 500,000

[eshfemme]

21. 500,000 more to go before he breaks 3 Million Donors then!

Woohoo! :woohoo:

[katmondoo]

12. I also donated in August

After watching Palin I immediately sent a check

[Eurobabe]

15. Yowza!

Glad to be a small part of that, I donated after my guy Joe was named VP. :D But I am not a new donor. :hi:

[tallahasseedem]

16. Yay!

That is fantastic news! :)

[eshfemme]

18. LOL, I can't WAIT to see the September numbers.

Because the Palin effect is definitely measurable in how energized she made the DEMOCRATIC base as evidenced by the $10 million that she helped Obama raise in ONE FUCKING NIGHT.

[ClarkUSA]

19. Team Obama wanted to raise $100M a month combined between the campaign & DNC

They fell short in July... let's see how the DNC did this month.

In the meantime, I think I'll donate once again. GObama!! :party:

[medicswife]

20. WhooHOO!!!!!

What great news to wake up to! I wondered when the August numbers were going to be released, and I was hopeful for over $50 million. The fact that there were over 500k new donors is fricking awesome! Thanks for a great story!

:kick: :toast: :bounce:

[bunkerbuster1]

22. Suck on that, McCain.

[Major Hogwash]

23. After the first debate on the 26th (mark your calendar now) he'll get a lot more, too.

When he goes head-to-head with Johnny Mac.

I can't wait.

[RedSpartan]

25. Awesome! I wasn't a new donor, but still contributed a bit to that.

Let's make September even better!

:applause:

[democracy1st]

26. Yes We Can

[weezie1317]

27. Woooo-hooooo!!!!!

[Cha]

29. And yet, we have all these

shit downer threads on DU..go figure.

[flamingdem]

30. Top news story on Google now

Gobama!

[TheDonkey]

31. $$$$KICK$$$REC$$$