{"id":387,"date":"2007-12-16T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugargroup.net\/varrin\/2-million-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T03:31:10","slug":"2-million-in-the-middle-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugargroup.net\/varrin\/2-million-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"$2 Million in the middle of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the New York City Ron Paul Meetup group&#8217;s Tea Party kickoff party.  They met in a building on the lower west side and basically packed the place out.  They had a projector showing Ron Paul videos up until midnight, and then a DJ spun tunes while the donation counter rolled.  At midnight, the total was $11.55 Million and started surging immediately after midnight.  <\/p>\n<p>This morning I got up and watched the counter roll over $13.55 Million at about 11:15 a.m.  In less than half a day, most of which was when people were sleeping, Paul raised more than $2 Million.  That&#8217;s more than Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo raised in the 3rd Quarter put together!  The current graph <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulgraphs.com\/dec_16_vs_nov_5_total.html\">comparing December 16th with November 5th<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulgraphs.com\/\">Ron Paul Graphs<\/a> shows the rate well exceeding the 5th of November rate, crossing the $2 Million mark more than 3 hours earlier in the day.  The rate is now accelerating.<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#8217;s rather ambitious goal for the 4th quarter was $12 Million.  Nobody knows yet how much he&#8217;ll end today with, but it&#8217;ll surely be well over $15 million.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in all of December, Mike Huckabee, who is touted by the media as a rising star has raised only half what Paul has raised&#8230; so far this morning.  If Huckabee is truly popular, the money stats sure don&#8217;t show it.  Money won&#8217;t win the election, but it is a significant influencing factor.  And it&#8217;s obvious to me that his promotion as the rising star is solely to focus attention away from Ron Paul, who is the only true rising star in the race.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to see Paul in person, he&#8217;ll be speaking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freestateproject.org\/libertyforum\">New Hampshire Liberty Forum<\/a>, put on by the <a href=\"http:\/\/freestateproject.org\/\">Free State Project<\/a>, just two days before the New Hampshire primary.  Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=xcQQ05XtAQ4\">Paul&apos;s Speech<\/a> wound up with over 1\/4 Million views on Youtube.  Who knows what could happen this time!  Stick around and hold some signs on election day.  It could be fun! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>V-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the New York City Ron Paul Meetup group&#8217;s Tea Party kickoff party. They met in a building on the lower west side and basically packed the place out. 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