6mil in one day. Does it matter? He still has less money, less donors, and less support than the other candidates except Mike Huckabee who has the least money and is winning!. Ron Paul is barely even with "no opinion" in polls.

Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times : Breaking News: Ron Paul scoops in $5 million!

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I'll be interested to see what actually shows up in his FEC reports.

Here's the most recent one for Ron Paul: http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/ca...?_08+P80000748

We'll have to see next quarter whether he actually received the money he says he has been given.

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I'm not doubting his accounting. I just think the discrepancy between his cash support and his poll numbers shows that he's getting much of his support from libertarians, populists, youth and a wide assortment of other people who aren't registered with the GOP. It seems that way from observation.

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We won't know for sure until the FEC reports come out after the quarter, but I don't see any reason to think the numbers on his website are wrong. It showed the correct total at the end of the 3rd quarter. I wasn't paying attention before that to know if the correct 1st and 2nd quarter numbers were on the website ahead of time.

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And possibly liberals.

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If the people donating all of this money actually take the time to get out and vote for him we may see some interesting results. I am really anxious to see how he does in the first few primaries. He's polling in double digits in my state right now.

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I think a lot of people who might be donating money don't fully understand the political process. I don't mean to bash his supporters because I'm one of them however, like O' Sullivan mentioned, a lot of Paul's support doesn't seem to be coming from people who traditionally vote in Republican primaries. Are these the types who typically go out and vote in Republican primaries: Libertarians and libertarians? Nope. Frustrated Americans? Nope. Young Americans or liberals? Hell no.

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Even if they did, they are very few. The FEC shows only 7000 donors to Ron Paul before this latest report which maybe increased that to 35,000. The other candidates. Romney had 35,000 before this latest report, McCain 25,000,and Giuliani 35,000.

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I'm telling you guys this is big money funding his campaign. The books may show it is individual contributions, but campaign history has shown that what big money does is give money to thousands of individuals, to then turn around and donate to a campaign.

Big money loves foreign-cheap-labor. The NAFTA lobby was the biggest in the history of the world.

50 years from now were going to find out who really funded Ron Paul's campaign, it will turn out to be Bill Gates or something. Mr. Cheap foreign labor himself.

Any documented statement as to what the average donation is to Ron?

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It's funny, Ron Paul rarely gets press coverage - even when his campaign pulls in large sums of money - but Mike Huckabee is EVERYWHERE it seems these days.

Is this a case of some type of media "group think"?

While not an official government document - Ron Paul's Realtime Q4 Donation Statistics

It looks as if the average donation is $64 as of right now.

That is precisely what is happening. The primary polls are actually probably very accurate because they're calling registered Republicans who've voted for Bush two times. It doesn't count everyone else who is switching over to vote in the primaries.

Look, any campaign that has people working for it for free is a campaign that can't be doing badly. Romney's spent a fortune so far and his numbers are falling. The rest of the candidates on both sides must be envious about the thousands of people in America right now who are volunteering for the Paul campaign.

Ron Paul may not win the Republican nomination, but what is for sure is that his campaign is now expanding to all of the states that have primaries on Super Tuesday in February while Tancredo just dropped out, Hunter will be next, Thomspon has lost a lot of support, McCain has little money, and Giuliani isn't placing very hign in the early states.

Paul is positioned to do pretty well and make a good fight of it once a couple more guys drop out.

My prediction is that once Ron Paul finished ahead of one of the frontrunners in Iowa and New Hamphire, that guy will drop out, and it'll help Ron Paul to at least get some better coverage and more attention.

Ron Paul gets alot of coverage on c-span.

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No, the media only reports on the winners. Guiliani was getting all the press when he was ahead, now Huckabee does cause he is ahead. Ron Paul has little support, so he gets little press. To me hes not very good to listen to either. It sounds like a lecture.

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