Ron Paul's Online Push Smashes Record, Nets More Than $4m
Foon Rhee / Boston Globe : November 07, 2007

Ron Paul ended up smashing the record for money raised in one day by a Republican presidential hopeful.

Through an ambitious online push Monday, his campaign brought in more than $4 million, surpassing the $3.1 million that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney raised on Jan. 8. Paul's supporters piggybacked on Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the failed plot by English Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I in 1605.

As of 6 p.m., Paul's website reported that he had collected nearly $7.4 million of the $12 million goal he has set for the last three months of this year to help him compete in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, and South Carolina, the first four nominating contests.

Paul has been an Internet sensation and is now spending money on TV ads and trying to translate that popularity into support in the polls and votes on the ground. "If someone is willing to send you money and invest all this time and energy, you would think they would invest the energy necessary to register and come and vote," Paul told MSNBC. "I think it does depend on the state, it depends on how we spend the money now that we have it in the bank, and how we advertise, and how we motivate the people to come out," he said.