As for Ron Paul’s supporters in Iowa: good luck turning the corporate news machine on its ear! It can be done, and you can do it!

Candidate Votes (%) Donors (%) Voters per donor
Bush 35,231 41 492 53% 72
Forbes 26,198 30 85 9% 308
Keyes 12,268 14 144 15% 85
Bauer 7,323 9 112 12% 65
McCain 4,045 5 92 10% 44
Hatch 882 1 10 1% 88
Total 85,947 935

Note: Steve Forbes is very wealthy and funded his own campaign.

If Ron Paul is more bark than bite and generates half of McCain’s voter/donor ratio (44/2 = 22) and 1% of donors come from Iowa (~1300 donors from Q2-Q4 of 2007) then 28,600 votes will be generated. If 100k voters caucus Republican then that is 28% of the vote. Add to the mix neocons and ballot fraud against Paul and Paul’s votes go down 10% to 26% of the total.

Romney is at 31%, Huckster at 28% and you can see how Paul can surprise everyone by finishing 3rd in Iowa!

In Iowa, you can change your party affiliation at the caucus. I don’t think that there is a greater chance for Democrats and Independents to give to a Paul campaign and not show, than for Republicans to give to a campaign and not show. But even if this were so, in 2004, Kucinich received money from about 50 people yet drew 1500 votes. That’s 30 voters per doner. And this was in a contest were the front-runner, Dean, failed to place first or second, and Kucinich languished in the polls (i.e. never even had a shot).

When Paul draws 30 voters per doner, that will be 36,000 voters. The Democrats that I know that support Paul, have already changed their party, and feel that there is not a big difference between the Democrat front-runners, and the polls in IA seem to support that. The three front-runners are tied not because of a great inter-party struggle, but because they are all the same. The Republican Party has a much more interesting contest because of Paul. Watch the independent and Democrat voters flock to the GOP to, if nothing else, teach Republicans a lesson. As a life-long Republican and anti-corporatist, I welcome Democrat support for the conservative Paul.

It’s hard to imagine a situation where Paul fails to achieve third - most of his supporters would walk through a blizzard for the honor of caucusing/voting for him; the caucus is early on a work night; and Kansas is playing in the Orange Bowl on caucus night starting at exactly the same time as caucus events - 7:00pm Central.

Here’s another site that shows the donation rates on the moneybomb days:

http://paulcash.slact.net/November-5th/
http://paulcash.slact.net/December-16th/

Up over 3,000 ppl/hr much of the evening.

The maker of RonPaulGraphs.com is monitoring the feed that the Ron Paul website puts out to drive that donation widget you see on their front page. It is constantly putting out the latest donation total as well as the last 10 or so donors(with state).

The reason it isn’t comprehensive is that on the money-bomb days, people were donating at a pace of 100’s of donors an hour. Therefore if more than 10 come in a minute, those extra donor names will likely get lost.

Still a pretty cool website the guy did just tapping into the public donation data feed. Has nothing to do with the campaign whatsoever.

Sounds like socialism to me.