My first political fundraising
Thanks to everyone who contributed; we managed to pull in $5600 for Barack Obama the last few weeks. The money came from 39 different people, and the mean donation was $143.60. It took 20 days to raise this money, at a rate of $280/day. Interestingly, most of the money was raised the old-fashioned way — by pestering my friends on IM and Facebook — and only $1800 came in via my blog.
If you still want to donate, go here.
Also, I was lucky enough to get to meet the Senator a couple of weeks ago at a lunch in Boston. The campaign photographer sent me the photo last week:
Moose on 1 February 2008 at 10:37 am
Glad I’m not one of your IM buddies! My IM buddies just constantly ask why I won’t vote for Ron Paul, but at least they don’t ask for any money.
Still, if McCain wins the republican nomination I’ll be voting for Obama.
Jono Bacon on 1 February 2008 at 11:48 am
Excellent work, Nat!
nacho on 1 February 2008 at 12:44 pm
Congrats, but I still think Hillary will be elected.
Felipe on 2 February 2008 at 8:50 am
Who’s the handsome stretching the hand of Nat?
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Congrats, Nat!
Kevin Dupuy on 3 February 2008 at 10:33 pm
Hey Nat, very happy to see you’re blogging again, I spent an entire weekend reading your blog from the start to the most recent posts and loved it!
I, too, am a Obama supporter. I am also a Ron Paul supporter, and if it came down to both in Nov. I’d have to go Paul, but I respect Obama’s positions and congrats on getting good funds for Obama’s campaign. And congrats on meeting him!
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Jered Floyd on 7 February 2008 at 1:03 pm
Nat,
You’ve posted before about Larry Lessig’s fantastic presentation skills in favor of worthy causes. In case you haven’t seen it, on Monday he posted “20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack”. I thought you might find it interesting.
–Jered
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