Nat Friedman

My first political fundraising

Fundraising Status

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:

Obama and me

1 February 2008
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  1. 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.

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  2. Excellent work, Nat! :)

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  3. Congrats, but I still think Hillary will be elected.

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  4. Who’s the handsome stretching the hand of Nat? :D .

    Congrats, Nat!

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  5. 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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  6. 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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