[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUk94yxJ1Us]Inaugural Launch
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdgViYrA_jg]Over Baltimore
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcaVshJnMXg]The Story Behind
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_p-HEXvkI]The New Hope
From: Wired Blog Network
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul made history Sunday by raising $6 million in online contributions in 24 hours, breaking the record for the most money raised by a national candidate in a single day, and potentially putting Paul on track to surpass the fourth quarter fund raising of all of his competitors in both parties.
“I just think it’s extraordinary,” says Anthony J. Corrado, a campaign finance expert and professor of government at Colby College in Maine. “In my view, I expect that Ron Paul will raise more money than any other candidate this quarter. At this point, his main competition will be (Mitt) Romney’s checkbook.”
The effort was organized entirely by volunteers online.
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Update: Trevor Lyman explains in a YouTube video how the “money bomb” concept came together on a Manchester, New Hampshire street corner.
From: The Los Angeles Times
“It was very difficult for Ron Paul to get attention. We had to come up with a way for him to get press,” [Trevor] Lyman says….
Like many Paul backers, Lyman is a political novice. He’s never even bothered to vote. But he had to act, he said, when the new Democratic majority in Congress didn’t pull the troops out of Iraq. Lyman was drawn to Paul because of his promise to end the war immediately.
“I know my tax dollars are being used to kill people,” Lyman said. “It makes me feel horrible.”
Lyman knows that Paul’s views make him an outsider. But he sees the flood of Paul donations as representing “the will of the people.” The Internet, he said, made it possible
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