Ron Paul raised $6,043,023 from 59,151 individuals.The mainstream media might want start calling Ron Paul a first tier candidate because look at all that money he has in the bank.As John Nichols says in the leftist Nation:
Ron Paul is now the champ.Ron Paul isn't raising most of his money from Hollywood elites or Wall Street financial interests,just regular Joes.Something to think about.
Kerry collected $5.7 million on one day in 2004.
Paul collected more than $6 million Sunday. And, unlike Kerry who raised his money from big donors on the day after he won the key primaries that secured him the Democratic nod, Paul is raising his money when it could actually help his quest for the Republican nomination.
Where the senator from Massachusetts was the insider collecting money from donors to rival candidates who now wanted to get on board with his already successful campaign, the congressman from Texas is a classic insurgent who is still dismissed by party leaders and media elites.
And Paul is continuing to raise money -- largely small contributions from individuals who in many cases have never before given money to a campaign -- at a remarkable rate.
The congressman's campaign is dramatically exceeding fundraising expectations in the current quarter. The campaign's unreasonable goal of $12 million has been exceeded by more than 50 percent already and there is every reason to believe that Paul will almost certainly finish the quarter with more than $20 million raised.
Paul could well end up raising more than any of the other Republican contenders and providing the only serious competition for Democratic money leaders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
