Clinton made her first foray into viral fund raising few weeks with the launch of Club 44, which seeks to build lowdollar fundraising networks of young women excited at the prospect that the 44th President be the first female one. Last month Trippi made an embarrassingly awkward video with fellow Edwards adviser Jonathan Prince, in which the two attempted to make the candidates favorite pecan pie.
They offered to share the recipe courtesy of Edwards mother in return for minimum donation of 6. 10 the appeal brought in nearly 300,000 in week, Trippi says. As eyepopping as Barack Obamas secondquarter fundraising total wasit raked in 31 million for his campaign for the Democratic nomination, beating even the much vaunted Clinton money machine by better than 10 million in funds for the primary racewhat really has the political classes chattering is another figure Obama reported 258,000.
Last month Trippi made an embarrassingly awkward video with fellow Edwards adviser Jonathan Prince, in which the two attempted to make the candidates favorite pecan pie. Thats the number of people his campaign says have already donated to him, and it amounts to more than doubling of his fundraising base in the past three months. But while Bushs bundlers, whom he designated Pioneers and Rangers, were highpowered CEOs and lobbyists, Obamas bundlers include such unlikely political players as Andrew Nicholas, who tutors refugee students at Denvers South High School Emily Stanton, stayathome mom in Baltimore and Jeff Larson, software engineer in Chicago.
Last month Trippi made an embarrassingly awkward video with fellow Edwards adviser Jonathan Prince, in which the two attempted to make the candidates favorite pecan pie. Thats the number of people his campaign says have already donated to him, and it amounts to more than doubling of his fundraising base in the past three months. few weeks his campaign sent out fundraising appeal via text message to the 13,000 phone numbers he had captured that way, and raised thousands, says Edwards strategist Joe Trippi. And then theres YouTube.
Hes got much more viral campaign than we do, says an envious Hillary Clinton strategist, using term for wordofmouth advertising and marketing techniques. They are among the 9,500 volunteers, says the campaign, who have signed up to solicit their friends and families by hosting individual fundraising Web pages for Obama. By the traditional standards of bigleague presidential politics, the bundlers individual efforts look like pocket change.