PEOPLE-POWERED RECORD: FRANKEN CAMPAIGN RAISES $4.4 MILLION IN Q3!
Campaign Smashes Minnesota Fundraising Record Thanks To 135,000-Strong Grassroots Donor Base, Enters Final Weeks With Nearly $2.8 Million On Hand
Franken Raises Nearly $1.6 Million On-Line In Q3, $4.3 Million On-Line In Cycle
SAINT PAUL [10/15/08] - The Al Franken for Senate campaign announced today that it raised over $4.4 million in the 3rd financial quarter of 2008, the strongest fundraising quarter in Minnesota history.
Communications Director Andy Barr:
“We’re incredibly proud of the people-powered grassroots machine that’s gotten us this far. And now that machine is ready to send Al Franken to Washington to change this country. This campaign isn’t funded by the special interests. It’s funded by small-dollar donations from people who want change. And Al won’t be a Senator for the special interests - he’ll be a Senator for Minnesota’s middle class.”
Q3 BY THE NUMBERS
Raised: $4,400,610.66
Average contribution: $59.38
New donors: 31,594
Raised on-line: $1,553,807.60CYCLE-TO-DATE
Raised: $15,877,682.45
COH: $2,782,815.66
Donors: 134,970
MN Donors: 24,367
Raised on-line: $4,290,667.30
Holy crap!
That’s really amazing that less than 20% of his donor base is from MN. I totally support Al, but I’m not sure how I feel about that.
After bitching about him the last couple of years, I even sent Franken $50.
In response to Franken’s 20% coming from elsewhere, it is definitely true that Franken has national attention. Whenever that happens you will see people from all over the country pulling for him. I donated to a candidate out in North Carolina (BJ Lawson) because of all the candidates in all the elections, he lines up most with what I believe in. I don’t think there is any cause for worry for democrats about this statistic, it happens when a figure has national attention. I’m not a democrat, but I can see why Franken is raising so much - people want change in Minnesota, and that’s not going to happen by re-electing Coleman. That is why Barkley is polling so high.
David
http://www.davidcarlsonpolitics.com
So if people in general think that politicians favor those who donate money to their campaigns, i.e. Coleman taking money from certain lobbyists, oil companies, “wall street” (whatever that is supposed to mean) wouldn’t it hold that Franken is going to favor the rest of the nation over Minnesota?
I actually believe it is fairly true for both candidates. The ambitions of both seem mostly unrelated to a desire for representing Minnesota. I doubt either would care what state they represented as long as they could have a seat in the Senate. Minnesota was just the best option either happens to have.