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Edwards Money-bomb Friday aka Stick it to the Media Day

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Today, Edwards supporters across the nation will concentrate their donations in hopes to make a statement. If successfull, the media will have to acknowledge that this is a three-person race.

Please join me in sending in a small donation to make Lawrence O’Donnell choke on his fois gras.

UPDATE by Charley: Make Sean Hannity choke on the live puppies he eats (thx Jerome):

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  2. I’m not sure I see the logic here.  Ron Paul shattered one-day fundraising records twice this cycle.  Didn’t do him a lot of good.  If Edwards wants “the media” to “acknowledge” that this is a three-person race, he’ll have to win a primary.

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    p>None of which means, by the way, that Edwards won’t end up as king/queenmaker at the end of the day.  He may well.

    • Raising a lot of money in one day = Now you’re Ron Paul?

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      p>If Paul weren’t a Grade A Jumbo with Omega 3’s goofball, he’d be spending that money well and making progress in the polls. But he is, so he isn’t.

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      p>Lame-ass candidates can’t make headway, no matter how much money they have. Good ones can make a little money go a long way. Edwards is the latter.

      • to this from the post (emphasis mine):

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        Today, Edwards supporters across the nation will concentrate their donations in hopes to make a statement. If successfull, the media will have to acknowledge that this is a three-person race.

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        p>That’s what I don’t think makes sense for the reasons I’ve already stated.  Obviously, the more money Edwards can raise, the better off he’ll be.

      • I also am the so-called “Captain” of Middlesex for Edwards, so I posted to my group, and used my personal list.  But I went off the BlueMassGroup link HERE – hope they keep track “where it came from”.

    • Those money-bombs got him more publicity and notice than was given Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo combined, two people running ahead of him.

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      p>I think that free media (and the earned media that followed from the donations) put Paul into his fourth place finishes.  Heck, he’s the only one on the air in Nevada, who knows how that’ll go.  Given what a mess is the Republican nomination, it may not be for nuthin’.

  3. Word of warning:

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    p>Don’t contribute via ActBlue for Edwards.  He won’t get matching money from Uncle Sam for his ActBlue donations… so give directly to the campaign.

  4. Check this out.  Anybody know if there’s some sort of negative history between Edwards and Feingold?

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    n an interview with The Post-Crescent editorial board, Feingold discussed those proposals, the war in Iraq and the current presidential campaigns.

    Here’s an edited transcript of his interview: …

    On the Democratic presidential candidates

    I did notice that as the primaries heated up, all of a sudden, all the presidential candidates – none of whom voted with me on the timeframe to withdraw from Iraq – all voted with me and when we did the Patriot Act stuff.

    The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war … He uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.

    When you had the opportunity to vote a certain way in the Senate and you didn’t, and obviously there are times when you make a mistake, the notion that you sort of vote one way when you’re playing the game in Washington and another way when you’re running for president, there’s some of that going on.

    On whether he’ll make an endorsement in the Feb. 19 Wisconsin primary

    Probably not. I’m having a hard time deciding between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as are many people. Those are the two I take the most seriously.

    I go back and forth, to be honest with you. I’m torn on this whole issue of who’s more likely to be progressive and really seek change vs. who’s ready to do the job today. It really is a true dilemma in my mind.

  6. I’m skeptical it will even sniff RP’s totals, but I am curious…

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    p>and maybe we could find a phrase a less, oh I don’t know, warrish than “money-bomb”?

      • The next reporting date is both the latest we’ll hear and it’s the official numbers.  The JE campaign is free to announce how much money it raised before that — they’ve just got to add up the numbers with that date on ’em.

    • Here’s Campaign Manager David Bonior

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      p>Thank you!   On behalf of John and Elizabeth Edwards and our entire campaign, I want to thank everyone who made a contribution on Friday, January 18th.  In particular, I want to thank all those from the netroots community for rallying to our side at a time when we need it most.  Thanks to you, we received several thousand contributions on Friday – and more than half of those contributions were from folks who had never before made a donation to our campaign.  

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      p>As a result of your support, Friday was one of the best online fundraising days ever for our campaign.  And, importantly, the great majority of those contributions will be eligible for matching funds, doubling the impact of your extraordinary effort.

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      p>We appreciate every contribution and every contributor to our campaign.  We know many of those who have given to this campaign do so because they see that John is fighting for them – for their families and for the American dream we hold close to our hearts.  Thank you for continuing to stand with John, and for helping to get out his message of bold, transformational change.  

      • “We didn’t meet our target.  We did pretty well, but not even as well as we’ve done on other days [that’s the meaning of “one of the best online fundraising days ever” line].  Thanks for pitching in, though.”

        • this effort didn’t originate from or coordinated with the Edwards campaign.

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          p>I believe it came from a dkos diarist.  

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