October 1, 2003
Small change, big change
I don’t usually get sentimental about money. Here’s an exception…
Frankly, I thought they were nuts when the Dean campaign gave itself the very public goal of raising $5M in ten days, mainly over the Internet. And it looked like I was right as the thermometers on the Dean site slowly edged up.
But last night, they made it and came damn close to the absurd goal of raising $15M in a quarter, breaking the previous record of $10.4M set by Bill Clinton when he was president and not competing for funds with 9 other candidates.
Ah, but you point out that W has raised multiples of that. True. But here’s the point that truly matters: The average donation to the Dean campaign was something like $77. That’s the sound of the grassroots rooting.