12/31/07

The Inevitable Comparisons

I don't spend to much time checking out the "other" candidates but I felt this deserved a little comment :)

For those that don't know, the Huckabee grass roots effort organized a money bomb style event on December 27th.

"Some people will inevitably try to compare our fundraiser with Ron Paul's largest moneybombs. But we feel that the only accurate and fair comparisons would be with other holiday fundraisers." - Huck's Army


They link to a couple screen shots of forum posts and a web site I'd never seen before as evidence of the failure of our efforts. We only raised $23k on that day compared to their 90k.

Just 3 days later on December 30th a single email from the Ron Paul campaign (sent the night before) brought in $97k.

The very next day, the fairly well known donate2008.org Ron Paul money bomb kicked off bringing in over $300k, more than 3 times the amount raised by the Huckabee event.

The Ron Paul campaign had 23 days in Q4 which brought in more than the Huckabee money bomb... many of those were grassroots organized events.

Just to keep things in perspective :)

12/30/07

Last Money Bomb Of 2007, Mobile Pages, And More

December 31st is the last money bomb of 2007 please give all you can!




Mobile Pages

The site is getting more complex and fancy... and isn't playing as nice with some mobile devices and accessibility devices, like screen readers.

For the mobile devices, I have created this page... I have an iPhone.. so it's geared towards that platform.

For non-iPhone users or people with other lower end browser needs, I have mostly resurrected the old index page and the old text stats page. They are linked from the bottom of the new mobile page...


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It's been a busy few days.. the new main page, text stat page and the new widgets seem pretty solid to me now.. I'm pretty happy with how it's all turned out.. but nothing is ever set in stone.

I think these widgets are going to be pretty cool... I hope everyone puts them to good use :)

Don't like the new pages for some reason? let me know.. got bugs on your browser? let me know... cool idea for the widget? you know...

Thanks everyone!

12/29/07

Embeddable Graphs And Stats

Ok... I think I've got version 1.0 complete of my new widget complete... if you have some ideas on how to make it better... or you have a problem with it in your browser.. let me know.

The text stats page has now been updated to use the widget in all slots. Auto refresh is working.



I'll be working on getting the front page and directory page set up with these as well

12/28/07

A Long Days Work

I've been working on this sucker all day:



It's not quite done and subject to change at any moment... but I thought I'd show you what's up... (if you're reading this in an RSS reader or email, you'll probably need to go to the blog to see all the awesome.)

The little icons under the graph should tell you what they do when you mouse over them... let me know what you think...

Those little icons are from here.. they're totally free and very nice looking.

12/27/07

Graph Comments

I noticed people were interested in graph comments in the sidebar poll... So I started looking around for a canned solution and found disqus.com... Pretty cool.. and just about exactly what I am looking for, I think... Every graph page now has a comment thread under the graph!

I hope this thing just works and I don't have to write my own :) If anyone is aware of other solutions like this one, let me know.. I'm always happy to get feedback.. good or bad.. It looks like I can tweak quite a bit with this disqus platform.. I'm currently using mostly default settings, so there is probably room for improvement.

Alive And Kicking

I hope every one had a great Christmas or Whatever. I've been home for a couple days... plugging away... researching some technologies to incorporate into my graph making software... there's always something to tweak.

There have been a few questions about the number of donations vs. donors vs. new donors... the numbers always seem a little weird.. I agree.. for instance:

total donations today: 176
donors today: 127
new donors today: 126

Only one repeat donor? But 50 people are donating twice? this is just what the numbers in the feed tell me... I subtract the number of donors/new donors/donations at 12am in the morning from the number right now... and those are the numbers that shake loose.

I have a couple emails out trying to find out if there's a problem, or if this is just the way things really are. When I know, so will you.

Just as an experiment I've added a chat widget thing... we'll see if it's interesting to anyone :) let me know what you think... would forums be better? or nothing at all?

I think I have answered all the email I got while I was out.. If you didn't get a response from me and you expected one, please resend... I might have forgotten to mark a couple for followup or deleted something by mistake.. there were many to review!

UPDATE: new poll in the side bar

12/20/07

Help For Ohio, Site Updates, Money Barrage

There's a problem in Ohio:

They need lots of signatures by the 27th to get on the ballot! Are you in Ohio? Know someone there? Help out if you can.

Site Updates:

The feed seems like it's good to go now... everything is back to normal.

I have completed the bulk of the work I mentioned, the distinction between donors and donations should now be consistent site wide. The donor graphs will be quite boring for another week or so... I have created new donation graphs that look like you would expect... if there is one I didn't make that you're particularly interested in, drop me a line and I'll put it on the list for after the holiday.

I'm in the progress of moving the web pages to another host so my dedicated server can be responsible for just the dynamic stuff like generating graphs, gathering data, banner rotation, and any other stuff I add. This should be a seamless transition from your perspective.... I hope!

I'll be gone from Saturday - Tuesday... I might be able to check in a couple times, but that's up in the air... I will be far from wireless access or even electricity. Just a heads up.. I'll probably mention it again before I leave :)

Money Barrage

In order of appearance (source):

Dec 23rd - RonPaulMoneyBomb.com - The weekly money bomb


Dec 25th - Gift2RonPaul.com - Gift To Ron Paul - no graph

Dec 31st - Donate2008.org - New Years Eve Money Bomb


Jan 1st - NewYearsRevolution08.com - New Years Revolution - no graph

Jan 21st - FreeAtLast2008.com - Free at Last 2008 - no graph

pick one.. pick a couple.. pick them all! Keep the money rolling in!

12/19/07

A Little Down Time

The feed had some problems for a couple hours... starting exactly 5 minutes after I stepped out for dinner and a trip into the city... of course :)

The feed seems like it's back up and I have removed the bogus data. There may or may not be more problems.. but I'm home now and jacked back in... so bring on the problems!

UPDATE: There may still be a few problems.. we might have to wait until morning before everything is back together again.. there could be minor data loss (just for RonPaulGraphs, not the campaign) if the feed has been incorrect while they are doing maintenance.

Some New Donor Stats

The "estimated new donors today" stat on the text stats page is no longer an estimate, it is derived from the official numbers. I have also added a "donors today" stat to that page.

So now we have daily donations, donors and new donors. To help clear up any confusion.. If I were to donate to the campaign twice today, that would be 2 donations, 1 donor and 0 new donors (as I have given before).

I have less than a full day of some of this data right now, but I will be providing a graph of it as soon as it fills out a little more. I don't have the total number of new donors for the quarter.. just for the week, so it's a bit hard to do anything particularly interesting with that right now.

There are a number of terminology problems on the site right now with regard to "donor" and "donation", until recently I have been calling the "donation" number "donor"... someone convinced me back in October that this made sense.. but in the light of the new data I have access to, it's wrong and confusing.. I will be working on fixing this terminology and renaming things appropriately. The problem is that it's a fairly large task and not fun... at all :) I hope to make some good progress on it today.. but I probably won't have everything correctly labeled for a little while.. sorry for the confusion.. If you have a favorite graph that currently says "donors" in the title... don't be alarmed if it changes to a lower number... that's just me switching over to the actual number of donors.. I will introduce a bunch of new graphs that actual deal with the donation number after I have taken care of this problem. Look for another update here when I have completed this body of work.

New Offline Graphs

I've made some pretty big changes to the way things are working behind the scenes. The first fruits of that labor are offline totals that update as soon as the campaign updates them, as opposed to me updating them manually when I notice or am notified... as well as these two graphs:






I have populated a couple historic data points with some known values... but from the 16th forward these graphs will reflect the publicly available offline data as it becomes available.

There are more new graphs and changes in the works, stay tuned... same Bat Time, same Bat Channel... that makes no sense, but I enjoyed typing it.

12/18/07

Offline Polls And Getting Out The Vote

I am not updating the offline poll graph any more. They have about as much value as a monkey throwing a dart. Have you seen this video yet?


youtube link

I hope this is the election that causes the American people to realize that these polls have no value and are entirely too easy to manipulate. Does anyone honestly believe that RP is going to get just 3% of the vote in ANY state? Of course not.. even in his "worst" states he will do better than 3-5%... Between the pollsters and the Old Media, one might think this race was all but decided and Huck or Rudy is going to take the prize... I for one refuse to believe it, and at the risk of having to eat my words in a couple weeks... These poll numbers are completely false and tell us how people will vote in much the same way as your horoscope tells you how your day will go.... that is to say, not at all, except by chance.

It's time to change from money bombs to voter bombs.. we need to get the voters to the polls to vote for Freedom, Peace and Ron Paul. Like most of you I have plenty of Democrat friends who support Barack O'Clinton... But many of them feel The War is the most important issue.. I've gotten a few of them to register republican to vote for Ron Paul as a personal favor to me... Telling them that it's best to have 2 anti-war candidates in the running for president... (I know RP is the only truly anti-war candidate in The Game, but that's not the point)... Even staunchly Democratic supporters can get behind the foreign policy of Ron Paul, and given the importance of the war this time around... that's your In. There is no race in the democratic party... it's either going to be HC or BO.. and in my experience, Democrats are happy enough with either... use that to your advantage... convince them... remind them... drive them to the polls... We can worry about their vote for president after we have the nomination. I think this strategy can work even for the most rabid Republican haters out there.. convince them that Ron Paul is most certainly against the neo-conservative establishment and their vote will actually make a difference in guaranteeing the end of the war and the attack on our personal Liberty and Freedom.

$100 million dollars will mean nothing if we can't get people to the primaries all over the country. Conversation is free... and time is running short... 17 days to Iowa... tick... tick... tick...




UPDATE: thanks to the anonymous poster who left this article in the comments... "2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone services"... to me, this just reaffirms the fact that current polling methodologies are fundamentally broken. I therefor reject their reality and substitute my own.

12/17/07

Venn Diagram

If you like graphs you might like this:



Great article.

What Now?

I got some sleep and a big plate of raw fish... Time to get back at it.

The campaign release a statement about yesterday. And Ron Paul himself also released a message

There hasn't been a ton of press, but what can you expect, really? We know we kicked butt... They know we kicked butt... America will know soon.. We're making an impact, we're being taken more seriously by the day. Keep it up, everything you do makes a difference... register to vote, find out the voting rules for the primary in your state, convince your friends to do the same.

About The Q4 Projections:

Yes, I know the projection is now lower than the total :) This number has never been anything more than a fun artifact of the least squares regression line applied to the full quarter of data. It will catch up to the numbers in a few days... I'm probably going to remove this number from the front page in the future as it doesn't really have any kind of reliable meaning... I don't believe there is any method of modeling this particular data set with any real accuracy.

Back to the numbers:

As I write this we've made $7,043,683 for the month of December.. more than $120k more than we did in the whole month of November. We have $284,133 raised for the day, the fifth best day of the quarter so far!

Site News:

I'm working hard on the back-end, making changes you will never see, to support the changes you will. As I have said in at least one previous post... with the new flash widget came several new bits of data I can use to bring you even more graphs. The problem is that this hacked together system is finally catching up with me and it's become challenging to make additions and changes.. So today and the next few days I will be working on getting the system up to less hackish standards to support the addition of this new data and new data into The Future.

I am thinking about upgrading the server again... this one has a few short comings which were made quite apparent yesterday :)

244,820 Visits
726,603 Pageviews

obviously a record breaking day! It probably would have been better if not for the downtime here and there... But I learned alot about what NOT to do and where the real bottlenecks in the system are. On Nov 5th I was so concerned with just switching to a new server location that I didn't really have time to closely examine the problems... but yesterday I didn't take my eyes off it for well over 24 hours.

Huckabee turned his numbers back on and made some changes... I should be handling him correctly now.

I got my first bit of "fan art" from Al Lamb at PatriotMoney.com...

"When I looked at the graphs of the Nov5 & Dec16 donations, I was struck by a thought and I crudely "filled in" the details (as you can see, I'm no artist)."

This is fun stuff! Thanks Al.

Final Online Numbers

I am now quite confident these numbers are right.

online total raised: $6,043,022.96
online donations: 59,170

This is not the total raised for the day, however. There are some offline donations and some store purchases to factor in. I'm sure we'll be getting those numbers tomorrow and the quarter totals will be updated.

Tomorrow I'll start recovering from this incredible day and moving forward with all the new data that's available.

I am going to go sleep myself into a coma.

Some New Problems.

there was a problem with the feed right at midnight that is still ongoing... there are some negative values... once the feed is back together I will fix it.

There is likely to be some missing data.

Taking Stock

Wow. What a day! and it's not really even over.. there is plenty of analysis to do, questions to answer, updates to make. But here are some preliminary numbers (subject to change in minor ways):

raised online: $6,023,995
total donation: 58,853
total new donors: 24630

I think my numbers might be a little low in some cases.. not by alot.. I have to figure some stuff out... and I might need some sleep first.. it's been a really long time :)

here are some cool graphs for the day:





Like I said... more to come.. might need some sleep.. there will be site updates and some new data from the new widget... some clarifications on stuff... it's going to be a fun week!

Congrats every one... this day was a great success on all counts.. we broke our own records and John Kerry's record... the campaign got a nice chunk of change and there's sure to be some press... well done... get some sleep.

12/16/07

Offline Totals Updated and The Verge Of History

new offline total raised: $2,143,116.46
new offline total donors: 34613

the site will update soon... things are running a bit slow.

we got another message from the campaign!


We are close to making history. In November, we mentioned that the all-time, single-day primary fundraising record is John Kerry's $5.7 million in 2004. At this hour, Ron Paul stands at $5.4 million.

Won't you help Ron Paul make history?

If you are considering donating, please help us by making your donation before midnight EST tonight. And if you have donated already, won't you help us by contributing again? https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate

By the way, we are closing in on 25,000 first-time donors today. That's unbelievable! Help us hit this mark too by telling your friends about this historic day!

Jonathan Bydlak
Fundraising Director
Ron Paul 2008


Can you help?

A New Record!

With more than 6 hours left we've broken the amazing record set on November 5th and we did it with 3000+ fewer donors. 6 more hours and an email from the campaign:


December 16, 2007


This day keeps getting more unbelievable! For those of you who might not know yet, today is quickly turning into a spectacular fundraising day for Ron Paul. You've already raised over $3.7 million since midnight!

Over 30,000 of your fellow Americans have made a contribution today, including more than 13,000 who have done so for the first time.

As always, you're helping Ron Paul blow past everyone's expectations and moving Dr. Paul one step closer to President Paul. We're all honored to be a part of this historic campaign. We have nothing but admiration for the support that each of you gives everyday to Ron Paul and the cause of freedom.

How high can we go? Who knows! If you've been considering making a donation to our campaign, please help us shatter every possible fundraising record by donating today: https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate

Have fun watching the new graphic on our website: http://www.ronpaul2008.com but don't forget to ask your friends to donate, too!

Jonathan Bydlak
Fundraising Director
Ron Paul 2008


the day sure isn't over yet.

UPDATE: I totally forgot.. we also have exceeded the number of tea party subscribers!

$3 MILLION

That's right, 3 MILLION dollars, over 5 hours ahead of November 5th. Better spend them quick before the Fed devalues them even more.

Eric Nordstrom of the weekly money bomb wants you to donate again! And so do I!



I'll put in another $200 today.

First 12 Hours In Review

What A Morning!

We completed the $12 million goal around 1:30 this morning. We've now raised over $12 million in JUST online donations...

We are over 3 hours ahead of donations on the 5th. And the graph slope looks steeper.



We're averaging over $186k an hour. Over $3k per minute.

The average donation size is $122 (nov 5th was $103)

We're over 5k donors ahead of Nov 5th.

Business is good at RonPaulForums.com.. I wonder what all those people are talking about...

It looks like Huckabee's numbers aren't updating today... *crickets*... and no one cares.

Looks like my server is holding up ok... I don't think we'll have any more down time today.. Again, I apologize for the brief hiccup this morning.

I think the second half of this day is going to be even better than the first half. We're already over halfway through the number of Tea Party pledges and we're just getting started!

Don't forget to tell all your friends and family to donate today instead of giving you something for Christmas :)

Firing On All Cylinders

It's 2:30am and we've already raised over $670k and we're over 5 hours ahead of November 5th... from midnight to 1am we raised over $350k and from 1am to 2am we raised over $250k... wow.



I'll figure out who got closest on their predictions at the end of the day.

All the problems with RonPaulGraphs.com are fixed and hopefully will not reoccur... It seems to have capacity to spare right now and I have a backup cache on the sideline waiting to be brought into the fold.

Crisis averted... time to go make my donation!

Back In Business

I have disabled some stuff and slowed some stuff down and added another server... we should be good to go!

Please keep the refreshing to once every 10 minutes or so and it will be ok. The flash widget will not bring down the campaign servers, so feel free to leave that open on the page (check box under the main navigation).

UPDATE: well.. I think the problem was entirely related to my openads ad server, which I use for banner rotation... I've taken that out of the loop and I think we're rock solid now! refresh away.

Wow... crushed.

Well... I didn't think it would happen... but it did.. we've completely crushed my dedicated server... I can't even log in remotely..

sorry... extraordinarily disappointing.. I'll let you know when I figure something out.

UPDATE: Getting better... got a mirror site integrated and slowed down the background jobs... NOW I KNOW!! :) just don't be too crazy about the refreshing and we should be good to go.

12/15/07

Two More Graphs: Extended Totals

In addition to the 24 hour graphs shown here I now have the "extended" graph showing 12 hours on either side of the big day:


Comparing that same period with Nov 5th:


If you're looking for the prediction post... it's down one :) Tex linked to the top of the blog.

I have changed the data sampling rate to once per minute and the site will update every 4 minutes.

Keep an eye on this blog for more graphs and news throughout the day! I'm going to try and stay up all night. The RSS feed is the best way to keep up.

UPDATE: I take back the part about how fast the site will update... in order to make sure everyone gets their pages it will update every 8 minutes.

Prediction Time, And A New Huckabee Graph

On November 5th we had 18,353 pledges and 38,905 actual donors (212% more) at roughly $103 per donation.

There are 32,473 Tea Party pledges... let's pretend 27 more sign up before midnight.. now we have 32,500. Assume we get the same overage percentage (212%), that would mean 68900 donors! If we assume the same donation amount ($103), we are looking at $7,096,700 for the day.

There are tons of other factors to consider... After the attention of the Nov 5th more people are going to donate... but were they more likely to give their email and make the pledge "official"? If a significantly larger percentage of actual donors are signed up this time, we could be looking at a number much closer to the Nov 5th total. On the other hand, if word of mouth has been a big factor this time, perhaps that overage percentage is higher, or at least the same... Or maybe the average donation will be higher... and maybe the Message from Ron will have an impact... maybe BlitzTheMedia had an impact such that the media will have an impact...

Not knowing what I don't know... all I can do is take what I do know and guess. I'm going to play it a little loose and predict a haul of $8,313,370. What do you guys think?

Speaking of predictions... how long until RP passes Huckabee for the month of December?



Looks like he's got just over $500k on us for the month. It took us until about 6:30am on Nov 5th to make our first $500k... but I'm only giving him until 2:30am this time.

Post your comment with your prediction for the Dec 16th total, and at what time RP will pass Huckabee for the December total. I'll post the winners along with a link to their site or a quote... whatever... we'll work something out.

New poll in the side bar

It Has Begun

I think we've officially kicked off the festivities. A message from Ron was released earlier this afternoon and officially ended 2 weeks of some of the most boring fundraising of the quarter:



Of course this is just the appetizer, and the main course is less than 10 hours away. Here are the new graphs I think we've all been waiting to see filled in:

Total Raised Dec 16th vs. Nov 5th:


Total Donors: Dec 16th vs. Nov 5th:


I'll be placing those on the front page of RonPaulGraphs as the day gets closer.

I'll probably post these again when I post my prediction of the total raised in a few hours... I'm basically just waiting for an update on the Tea Party member stats and then I'll blog my predictions and you guys can all post yours... the person who gets the closest wins... um.. a high five from me.. you have to come pick it up though.

12/14/07

Ron Paul Graphs Shown On PBS "NOW"

I took a picture :)



here is the part with my 10 seconds of fame.. starts about 55 seconds in:



If you want to see it from the start, here's part 1 of 4.

7 Days Prior to Dec 16th and Nov 5th

Week of Dec 16 vs Week of Nov 5

Here is the first Dec 16th comparison graph... more to come.



these aren't like Monday - Sunday weeks, they start 4 days before the event day and go for 7 days total.

150 Graphs!

I just noticed that I now have 150 graphs! I remember being pretty excited about having 50...

I also just noticed that the Tea Party now has 30,837 members. If you haven't signed up, do it! I'm trying to make predictions over here! There's a very interesting upswing in the sign ups for the last day. That's only 8068 people less than the total number of donors on November 5th and only 5869 less than DOUBLE the signups on thisnovember5th.com.



I can't wait to see if these additional people are people who just didn't sign up last time... or if we're really looking at nearly double the performance of November 5th.

Who cares about Christmas with this action less than 36 hours away!

Some New Graphs

Here are some new graphs!

Total raised per hour for the last 48 hours:



Total donors per hour for the last 48 hours:



Is anyone excited yet?






I've got at least 3 more new graphs coming on Saturday. Don't worry there is a Dec 16th vs. Nov 5th graph on the way!

Check out this Lego portrait Ron Paul... that's geektastic!!

12/11/07

Offline Totals Updated

The campaign has added $483,672.62 in offline donations from 7068 donors.

This brings the offline total to $1,736,961.21 and 27,663 donors.

12/10/07

Facebook, Blitz The Media, and a Sponsor!

Jason Uher has create a Facebook.com application that allows you to embed one of my graphs in your profile page! If you're a facebook user, check it out.

BlitzTheMedia.com is a new effort aimed at contacting the media on specific day, en masse. The day is the 14th. The topic? Two Guesses. Here is a graph of subscribers (delayed 1 day):



RonPaulGraphs just got it's first real sponsor! DamariScooters.com is a scooter and scooter accessory store run by long time friends of mine in my home town of Damariscotta, Maine. They are also Ron Paul supporters! If you are a scooter fan (or know one) this store has some unique stuff, Check out the custom artwork by Stephen King illustrator, Glenn Chadbourne! I've added a banner at the bottom of RonPaulGraphs.com. Thanks for having a look.

12/9/07

Freaking Spam Filter Ate Your Email

On Dec 6th I deleted all my spam (30k messages) on my gmail account, which handles all my various email accounts. This morning I went through the 3k new spam emails in there and found 4 emails to my ronpaulgraphs account that were clearly not spam... so who knows how many good messages I deleted on the 6th. I will attempt to be more diligent in the future now that I know how bad the problem is.

If you sent me an email in the last couple months and never got a response, that is NOT how I roll... I respond to every email I get... please accept my apology and resend your email. If you still don't hear from me in 24-48 hours, you may need to try to send from a different email address or something... there is no reason that I could see for the 4 emails I rescued to be marked as spam... but with over 1000 actual spam emails per day, there is no way I can live without the gmail spam filter... sorry for any inconvenience.. I just hope no one emailed me with an urgent request to save them from the bottom of a well or anything..

Kickin' Some New Banners!

Thanks to Javier R., who is doing some fantastic work at RonPaulMessage.com, I've now got the bad ass new banner you see at this top of this blog and on TopRonPaulSites.com.

He also made me this little one:

RonPaulGraphs.com

feel free to post it on your site!



Make sure you go check out RonPaulMessage.com there are some awesome FREE marketing materials you can print out and use around your town.. and a bunch of banners for your web sites!


There's a new poll in the sidebar.

12/8/07

I Hate Days Like This!

What a Crappy Fundraising Day(tm)... It's 8pm EST as I post this and we're just a couple hundred bucks above our worst day of the quarter. It doesn't look like we're going to bust out of the worst 10 days of the quarter bracket... I thought we were past the point of days that bad. Guess not.

I know the Tea Party is right around the corner (sign up if you haven't already! my graphs need YOU!)... but it doesn't make it any less depressing in the meantime... I spend so much time looking at these numbers it really seems like my mood has a tendency to match the graphs... This is probably an unnamed psychological disorder for which I should receive treatment... Fundraising Psychosis... Campaign Affective Disorder... Ron Paul Sympathy Syndrome... Manic Graph Disorder... something.. Maybe I'm a case study in the making.

Anyway, nothing new to report.. just sitting here, mindlessly hitting refresh, listening to depressing music, chain smoking and counting down to the big day.

Do me a favor... if you haven't already done so... sign up for all (or at least a couple) of the following sites...

RonPaulMoneyBomb.com
Paulunteer.com
TeaParty07.com
ronpaul.meetup.com
pledgeforpaul.com

If you're holding out because you don't want the email... PLEASE! With all the spam and stuff out there... what's a couple more emails a week that actually have content you might enjoy... some of them don't even send email.. but I graph them all..

You can also sign up to get this blog in your email

subscribe by email:


or via RSS

Let's Kick Some Butt And Move Some Graphs!

12/7/07

They've Done It Again!

The fine folks at Terra Eclipse have released some more cool stuff on the official campaign site. Here's a sample of some of the new Widgets and Banners:



Ron Paul 2008 - Hope for America

I Heart Ron Paul

Ron Paul 2008 - Hope For America

Gunowners For Ron Paul

That's just a sample and there's more on the way! Go get yours and plaster them all over the web :)

RonPaulBlimp: Money Raised vs. Pledges

Here is a graph showing the total raised for RonPaulBlimp.com vs the pledges that were made.



Just a tad ahead of schedule!

YOU Can Help End The Decline

Here we are again... fundraising is all but dried up. We haven't heard from the campaign in a few days, there is over a week before the next big event and time is ticking away.

You can join the weekly money bomb effort and help keep the momentum going. It's payday! Can you spare $25 or more to help the campaign? There is media to be bought, events to plan, primaries to win. Please make your most generous donation today!



The festivities start at 1pm! Help us move the graph!

12/5/07

Five For Freedom

Today is Repeal Day, so go grab a beer... then come back and donate at least $5 to Operation Live Free Or Die.. A very worthy cause that is transporting and housing volunteers in NH... These Heroes are going to personally talk to as many as 100,000 NH voters... Come on, you've got $5 to spare!

Here is a chipin for your maximum convenience.



UPDATE: moments after I blogged this.. chipin.com is having problems.. there's no alternative way to donate right now... If I can find one, I'll post it... figures.

UPDATE: If the chipin breaks again you can find a paypal donation link on this page... scroll down... sorry for the lack of convenience.

12/4/07

A Couple Of New Graphs

Here is a new graph for the weekly money bomb subscribers. They have switched to a new mailing list system.. which is why the number is far smaller than the 2500+ they had previously... If you haven't resubscribed yet, please do so.



Here is a graph of the total number of pledges on PledgeForPaul.com... yeah, they have their own, but I've had a couple requests... so here's my rendition.

12/3/07

Huck Data Is Back

The Huckabee campaign turned their numbers back on.. So those graphs live again.. but because I have no idea where they started today at, the daily graphs wont start back up until tomorrow (obviously the "yesterday" graph will start the next day). Let the competition between the Ron Paul Freedom Fighters and the Status Quo Fascists resume!

Here's Some Interesting Stuff

These guys are organizing a small army of people to go door to door in NH. All they ask from you is $5 (or whatever you can give) to help transport and house the troops. If you can't go, you can chip in to have someone knock on a couple doors for you :)



I thought this was interesting.. we're adding over 4,000 meetup members in 7 days. I've seen this as low as 2,000 and it seems to be around 3,000 normally...



meetup members are power.

The Youtube graphs are picking up some steam the last couple days too.

Finally! A week over week graph that doesn't include Nov 5th! I'm making this the week over week graph on the default home page... I'll extend it to 5 weeks next Monday.



Don't forget to make a commitment to donate each week at RonPaulMoneyBomb.com! Just a few weeks until the primaries.. every dollar counts!

12/1/07

Offline Polls Graph

Here is my first whack at a graph of some offline polls.

These poll numbers are collected from Real Clear Politics if the dates for multiple polls overlap, their values are averaged together. I'm updating this data manually for now so if you notice an update... let me know.

I'll be tweaking this.. but I thought I'd show you guys what I have so far.



Oh yeah... and we've raised $1,000,221 for this week... thought you might like to know.

Summary, Updates, No More Huck

November 30th 2007

raised: $531,438.82
donors: 6,780
avg donation: $78.38

New map for PledgeForPaul.com can be seen right here

Here's a new week over week graph for december:



Here is the new graph for actual money raised for the Ron Paul Blimp...



If you made a pledge, it's time to pony up!

Huckabee stopped publishing his numbers... so that fun is over, at least for now.. I'll probably be removing some of those graphs as they become even more useless over the next few days.

Don't forget to sign up to donate weekly! the next weekly money bomb is on the 7th!