The results are in from last quarter's fundraising for Governor Dean - over 160,000 individual donors in the quarter at an average of almost $75 / donor, of whom almost 80% (128,000) are
new.
The
Governor's statement is here. And Kos at
DailyKos has
a breakdown of the Democratic field in Q3, for which
I calculated an Efficiency Factor (on hand / total raised to date).
And of the over 230,000 donors to date, less than 1% (2300 donors) have given the maximum of $2000 for the primary season. That's (hopefully) a lot of room left for donations from the current base....
With the Bush war chest growing by the day ($80 million toward a goal of $200 million), I believe that Governor Dean is fully justified in moving beyond Federal Matching funds, as long as the focus is on small donations and individual donors: to do anything less is not fighting fire with fire....
# posted by Jan Pavel : 10/15/2003 11:18:00 PM