Act Blue -- Rob Miller = $500,000 = Half-a-Million

[L. Coyote]

Allllllllll Riiiiighttttttt !!!!!!!!

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/19079

[L. Coyote]

1. $ 510,943 w/ 14,171 supporters

[mshasta]

2. no way!!

kick!

[L. Coyote]

7. Over $1,000 a minute at current rate

[Island Blue]

3. That's a lot of money to raise off of two words ...

uttered by somebody else. Thanks a million, Joe. Or at least 1/2 a million. ;-)

[marew]

LOVE IT!!!!!

Please donate if you can and haven't already.

[lapfog_1]

4. Needs another $1.5 M to take out Wilson

assuming that all the rednecks and birthers and racists in the country don't pony up for Wilson. The $1.5M is just to match the expected contributions from the Health Insurance industry.

[L. Coyote]

8. He only needs 14,000 voters to switch votes.

2008 Rob Miller 158,627 	46% 		
Joe Wilson 	184,583 	54

[lapfog_1]

12. Yeah, I had already heard that he lost by 8 points

and he only had 1/2 the money. But that was before Wilson became the darling of the nutters and lunatic fringe. By shouting out "you lie", Joe Wilson became the voice of all of those town hall idiots, birthers, and the out and out racists. It's going to take a lot more to defeat him this go round.

[L. Coyote]

19. Wilson 62.7% in 2006, 54% in 2008, I like this trend = 45% in 2010!!

In the 2006 elections, he defeated Ellisor again, gaining 62.7% of the vote, and kept his House seat.<7>

In the 2008 general election, he won 54% of the vote to Rob Miller's 46%,<8> the closest race in the district in 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)

[lapfog_1]

22. Yeah, it's a nice idea.

but not to throw a lot of cold water on it...

There WAS someone else running in 2008. Someone a *lot* of people felt very passionately about electing. Someone NOT on the ballot in 2010. Don't expect a repeat of 2008, and don't expect an improvement either. Not without a *lot* more money and ground work.

[d_b]

5. nice

i remember when this happened to...Bachmann? Hopefully we'll gain a seat out of it this time.

[peace13]

6. If Pelosi refuses to do her job the people will do it for her!

The next *ss that wants to call out the president from the floor of the chamber can expect the same treatment.

[L. Coyote]

9. $ 517,929 w/ 14,361 supporters

[Bozita]

10. 14,161 Supporters $510,138 Raised - at 6:44pm ET

How can this be?

Now at 6:48pm, this ...
14,351
Supporters
517,124
Raised$

[L. Coyote]

11. Not all pages update at the same time. See this one: kossacks4miller

http://www.actblue.com/page/kossacks4miller

Raised on this page: 5,374 supporters = $$$$ 184,137

It seems to be the most active, so it updates more often.

[Bozita]

13. Thank you.

[L. Coyote]

14. $ 524,356 w/ 14,535 supporters

14,535 is over $36.00 eac.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. Remember that this is JUST the Act Blue total...

Miller has a place on his website where people can donate directly. And that doesn't include Luddites and others who prefer not to contribute online. I'll bet you that the total raised in the last 24 hours is approaching $750K.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. let's keep it going!

[L. Coyote]

17. PPP launching a poll in South Carolina tonight in order to gauge reaction.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/10/780040/-SC-02:-Race-Now-On-Charlie-Cooks-Radar

We will know more about the impact of Wilson's tantrum very soon, as the folks at PPP are launching a poll in South Carolina tonight in order to gauge reaction.

For now, however, this race has gotten the attention of election analyst Charlie Cook. Cook's team downgraded Wilson's chances for re-election today. After initially declaring the incumbent safe from harm, they moved him today to the category of "likely" to attain re-election. In the commentary, Cook doubts whether Wilson's moment of idiocy yesterday will cost him in fourteen months, but he notes that Miller will now have the resources to wage a real fight. ......

.........

[liberaltrucker]

18. And that's JUST from Act Blue

Is his campaign site back up? If so, I'd bet there's
a few $$ there.

:woohoo:

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. His campaign site is ActBlue right now

www.RobMillerforCongress.com

[L. Coyote]

21. $ 541,085 w/ 15,032 supporters

Raised across ActBlue:

kossacks = 189,652

[L. Coyote]

23. KO Special Comment: Congressman Wilson

Special Comment: Congressman Wilson
by Keith Olbermann - Sep 10, 2009 - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/10/780147/-Special-Comment:-Congressman-Wilson


In the fictional version of American politics in the first decade of the 21st Century, this would be cut as "too symmetrical," just as surely as an editor would insist you couldn't call your make-believe Congressman, "Representative Heckler."

We get one president who lies, non-stop for eight years, and the first time he truly gets called out for it, it is in the stodgy and very appropriate venue of the New York Times, by a man named Joe Wilson.

Then we get another president who tells the truth, often when it is to his detriment, getting heckled, in the least appropriate venue imaginable, in the chamber of the House of Representatives, by a habitually hot-headed Congressman also named Joe Wilson.

The invective, the flatullence-quality of the Representative's salvo, makes the gaudier story. But as I hope to show in a Special Comment tonight, the salient fact was that Congressman Wilson, and not the President, was wrong last night.

..............

[L. Coyote]

24. $ 641,282 w/ 17,579 supporters

[L. Coyote]

25. $ 796,718

[L. Coyote]

26. $ 894,752