70 MILLION reasons to be fired up and ready to go.

[Perky]

I think Donations to the Obama Campaign may approach $70 Million for the month of February based on the following

At the end of January the number of donors for the year was about 256,000 donors. The number for the year now is now 901,525. That is a whopping 645,000 donors in February.

Obama said the other night that the average donation is about $109. That is $70 Million.

[babylonsister]

1. It's over $35M for February:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x126484

[Perky]

2. check this out

http://www.patrickruffini.com/2008/02/21/obama-60m-in-february/#comments

Obama: $60M in February?by Patrick Ruffini :: February 21st, 2008 5:20 pm
According to my initial projections off this crowdsourced spreadsheet of Obama donations I set up after the Wisconsin victory, Obama has already raised at least $45 million for February and is on track to raise $60 million for the month.

A source who tracks Obama’s public donation number like a hawk tells me that Obama had tallied about 256,000 donors for the year as of the end of January. Those donors produced $36 million in receipts, for an average contribution of $140.

Obama’s public donor count stands at 583,525, meaning about 327,000 people donated in February. With the same average, that would give Obama just over $46 million in 21 days.

This is in line with the expectations game they are playing. The campaign says they will raise at least $36 million in February. You can bet that they wouldn’t say that if they hadn’t already passed the mark, plus a decent sized buffer. Their lowered expectations call for them to beat January’s total, when they will in fact blow them out.

A couple of notes.

First, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the $140 average go up this month. People give more as the stakes go up. I’m sure he is also getting some “frontrunner” money he wasn’t getting before. I wouldn’t be surprised if the total would up being $70 million.

Also, thanks to an interesting quirk in the way the Obama website publicly records donations — batch uploading donations from made from the email fundraising link at once — it’s possible to separate out donations made from email from those that organically come in on the Web site. Both e-mails I tracked seemed to generate about 36,000 contributions, or somewhere between $3.5 and $4 million. So, even without any momentum-generating primary victories (in fact, there are none left this month), all the Obama campaign would need to do is send 3 or 4 more emails to their list to reach $60 million.

Adjust your March 1 David Plouffe conference call expectations accordingly.

[babylonsister]

3. Holy moly! That's phenomenal!

:thumbsup:

[Perky]

4. and it was posted a week ago..

If it is $140 now which I doubt... the number could be wait for it $95 Million by Midnight tomorrow night,

[babylonsister]

5. And Hill was just bragging about a measly $35M!

I kid! That's a lot of dough, too. This country is brimming with political excitement; I've never seen anything like it. The apathy certainly isn't so apparent now!

[Perky]

8. So what are you sensing in Texas?

care to predict?

[babylonsister]

9. After reading this today, I'm more optimistic than ever:

I think Obama has a real shot.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4810340

Plus this from yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4802646&mesg_id=4802646

[zulchzulu]

6. A million dollars stacked on top of each other is 63 miles high

I remember that from grade school. Never tried it though....

GOBAMA!

[Perky]

10. You could stretch $70M from Key West to Belllingham Washington

LOL

[MadBadger]

7. I think its gonna be 50 million

[Perky]

11. I am thinking it will ba about $57M

[loveangelc]

12. I think the nytimes reported 50 mill.

[FrenchieCat]

13. I just donated, so that it will be more that what it would have been!

:hi: