Obama Reaches 2 Million Donors

Barack Obama's campaign has been encouraging supporters to "make history" by helping the campaign pass the 2,000,000 donor mark. Today they reached their goal:

Today we achieved something amazing -- 2,000,000 donors owning a piece of this campaign.

In the face of John McCain's low road tactics, it's more important than ever to keep our movement growing and show the power of millions of grassroots supporters coming together to work for change.

Thank you for all you have done to build this movement.

As campaign manager David Plouffe said in an earlier fundraising email, "Two million donors is an incredible number -- a number that was previously unimaginable for presidential campaigns. And it's a number this campaign never dreamed we could reach before the convention."

Comments

[HairyReid]

What a joke!!This isn't a democracy anymore...this tool (and all the others) are buying the presidency!
Add a new slot on the ballot and label it NONE OF THE ABOVE...if that slot gets more votes than Nobama or McCain ,start over and choose new people!

[Merersu]

Buying the campaign? You mean like big business and oil have for the past six elections? At least the only people Obama has to answer too is the two million of us who pledged our help. We won't get thrown under the bus because some oil lobbyist has called in a favor. No, that crap was for the past eight years and that crap is over!

[w8aminute]

or like Bush's Texas Rangers?

[SFreeborn]

What a doltish remark! The fact that individuals actually can, and demonstrably do, contribute to the candidate of their choice is a wonderful turn of events in American politics. It's not just the rich and the corporations who are having a say in who gets elected, it's every one of us.

Now for a little perspective, while that is a new to politics number, there are nearly 300,000,000 people living here, that means it is a small percentage who have decided that their contribution to the election matters. We need to keep growing those donor numbers so the donations can become ever smaller per individual donor. The more people who participate, the smaller the donation needs to be and the more democratic.

The elections will show whether this new found participation is a sea change or not. I suspect that HairyReid is simply one of those people who can't find a sufficient number of voters to agree with his political ideas to get someone elected.

[tigs]

obama deserves every cent, and his campaign deserves big congratulations , well done to donors and the team and obama .

[Freesia2]

No. Obama is getting funding from supporters with no strings attached.

Buying the Presidency is when you fill the Straight Talk Express with lobbyists who hop off at each stop to make promises from John in exchange for cash.

[Hammerkraut]

WRONG. Wall Street is giving the bulk of its donations to Obama. Wall Street doesn't give anybody millions of dollars unless it expects something in return.

[ATruthBeKnown]

Rock

[Seattlelite]

I consider my donations to O as an investment in my future and the future of my country. With times as they are right now (money is tight for many) this accomplishment speaks volumes!

[saywha]

This is why the Hillary -ites had better watch their step at the Convention. Anytime the folks are willing to put their "money where their mouths are, you'd better not mess with them. Yes, "We're mad as hell, and we're NOT gonna take it anymore"......... Listening, McCain, GOP?

[pleeezzze]

Two million people (small donors) have sent him millions and millions of $$ ??

[psychmaj323]

umm. yep. If you people give 2 dollars, that's 4 million dollars, now most people are giving him 25, 50, 100-250 dollars.

@ 50 dollars each that's 100 million dollars.

[psychmaj323]

Also, the more people bash Obama, the more we give, so keep it up!

[SFreeborn]

My family has donated $25 to $75 per month since 2/2007. I know we aren't the only ones. When it started to make a difference, contributors were happy to keep it up. If you've been alive for a while, you know that what we have done in the past hasn't worked. The idea that ordinary people with a common purpose can do extraordinary things is being played out here.

Get back cynics, there is a change in progress here.

[egal]

You'd be better off disputing things that aren't on record, independently confirmed, and, you know, "facts".

Otherwise, you just sound like yet another of those so insular and closed-minded they insist that "supporting the troops isn't patriotism, supporting the criminal president is!"

[Egalitare]

Most of the Two million are folks like me who won't come close to donating even a quarter of the maximum. We small donors have collectively given over $100 million to Obama, and in my book that qualifies as "millions and millions of $$."

We'll probably add another $50 million to that total between now and Election Day. We expect our more affluent fellow donors to at least triple that amount.

[Bronxcutie]

I'm very happy to be part of the 2 million! I will donate again in September!

[Big0725]

Same here. Just gave $100 last night and plan at least another hundred each of the next 3 months.

[Patrick McCabe]

Charlie is a vet, and a firm Democrat for ages. He has the stripes and all members of the Party of John F.Kennedy want to hear from him at the Convention.

Thumbs up for Charlie Rangel!

[Patrick McCabe]

The above is approved by me an Obama donor.

[Mitchell4A]

On a list of a (baker's) dozen reasons Obama will win, # 2:

2. The Organization Factor: Obama has built a remarkable organization, in part through using the Internet. Nothing quite like it has been seen before in its capacity to raise money, generate enthusiasm, and get out the vote. For more on the uniqueness of Obama’s organization, see Joshua Green’s piece, “The Amazing Money Machine” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/obama-finance and Marc Ambinder’s “His Space” in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/ambinder-obama

"A Dozen Reasons Why Obama will be the Next President: Money-Back Guarantee”
http://msa4.wordpress.com/

[p2504]

Posting for the very first time and I am very proud to say that I own an extremely tiny piece of this campaign. I am a permanent resident (I am Indian American) right now and so I'm not eligible to vote yet but I so wish I could vote. I have been doing my part by trying to ask people (who don't care to vote) to vote for Obama.

Its funny, I was telling a friend (Obama supporter too) that I often have an urge to roll my windows down while driving, at the light and asking the neighbor who he/she would vote for.

I will be eligible for citizenship next year (wish it was this year).

I love reading posts and responses to them and I am almost addicted to Huffingtonpost.

Obama '08

[rose london]

WELLCOME P2504. God bless u for doing ur part. I'm defo sure we would all be rewarded. With Peace, Progress and Unity at Home and Abroad. I know for a fact that you will not regret joining HuffgPost. We rock. The truth always prevails on Huffgpost. It's my best site and enriched my understanding of what is really going. Hope everything work out for you, and rem what Obama says Keep ur Hope and Faith and when we work together we can achieve greatness.

[wanttruth]

Awesome!!! I'm so glad to be one of the 2 million donors to this campaign.

[AlindaFaye2000]

Great isn't it?

[SickStan]

I was a former Republican who had never donated to either party. This election has me truly excited about restoring intelligence, competence, and pragmatism to our government. A better use for my donations to the Obama campaign during the primary and general elections cannot be found. Ralph Nadir (pun, not typo) once said that there was no difference between the two parties. Contrast the spellbinding narrative style of Audacity of Hope, replete with a deep understanding of society, economics, political reality, history, and science with the verbal stumble-step of John McCain's tangential sound-bite.

[Hammerkraut]

You actually typed the words "spellbinding narrative style of Audacity of Hope", and you want people to believe you were a Republican? Come on, even your fellow liberals aren't going to fall for that.

[Patrick McCabe]

As a donor I approve the above message.

[rose london]

Well come to the real world SickStan. I hope u vote for Obama. I'm sure you would be proud that you have done your part in restoring the true meaning of Unity, Progress and Peace both at home and the rest of the World. Obama 4 President. DEFO( in England, this means definately)

[Citizen08]

Time to Donate again!

Did you all get Obama $47 for his 47th Birthday, it's never too late!

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/standardWO?source=mainnav

[jakie]

YES I DID THAT WAS MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO HIM

[DWP]

This is true public financing

[MPeter]

This is an amazing feat. Obama and his team contuously defy convention. They have achieved one incredible feat after another. What continues to amaze me is how MSM continues to misread this phenomenon! Thanks Obama team. Thank you Obamaniacs, Hope and Change peddlers. You have shattered old politics. Out with the old; in with the new.

[Hammerkraut]

In a nation of 301 million Obama's donors constitute two thirds of one percent of the population, and there is research to indicate that even small donors are far more affluent than the average American. No doubt lots more demographic research is being done as we speak. When all is said and done and we have a good picture of where this money came from it will be shockingly clear how non-grassrootsy Obama's money stream is. It will be the great shame of the Democratic party.

[paulbikes]

Im a small business owner and student who scrapes by month to month. Ive donated over 100 bucks and thats allot of money for me right now. So have all my friends. So i take your comment here as a personal offense.

I guess for you to be happy BO should just take millions for big corporations so that the charade can continue? Your sir are filth.

[SFkid]

Hammerkraut is jealous that he can't be as competent as a black junior Senator from the tough neighborhood of south side Chicago. Its OK Hammerkraut, I'm sure somebody some where might be able to look up to you someday, but not anytime soon.

[cassandra123]

The campaign never claimed the 2 million donors were poor people! I am sure people who donate money to a campaign are probably at least considered middle-class, and upper middle-class.

In this horrible economy, people with only a small amount of money can barely pay for gas, food, and other neccessities. In fact, people such as myself who are middle-class, but we do not have large sums of money, make tremendous sacrifices to donate money, volunteer time, and give assistance to the campaign in whatever ways we can.

We are truly GrassRoots participants! We are not paid staff, nor are we affiliated with corporations. Many of us are retired or we work at normal jobs.

The Demoratic Party will not be shamed by our participation in OUR DEMOCRACY!

[Merersu]

I am poor! I have been out of work for nearly 14 months (just, like 6 days ago got a full time job) and have still given $5.00 of my unemployment benefits to help Barack. And now that I will finally have a steady income, I plan to give even more. He, is absolutely money well spent. So you see, it doesn't matter who the two million are, it matters that two million individuals took their time and hard earned money to make a statement. And a hell of a statement it is!

[MPeter]

How stoopid! Can you sight any grassroot-based campaign funding of this magnitude in our 232-year history? You have the gall to talk about 301 million when in reality, this country has been governed by a few thousand people from the media, corporations and the monied class. The only person who should feel the shame is you for being so obtuse.

[ccmd]

I too am one of the 2 million. =)

[rinpochet]

Me too. Give regularly each month.

[fanchon1288]

I also give each month sometimes twice.

[pagangrandma]

I also donated to the Obama campaign; what I could, on a retired fixed-income. I haven't donated to anything political in twenty years, but something has to be done to change the course of this country and undo the damage that Bush has done.
Goddess help us if McSame wins.

[Liberoservative]

I am with you!
I have NEVER donated to any political campaign until this year.... and I am 52 years old....

Obama is what we need .... Obama is what the world needs......

The United States of America will be the phoenix rising from the ashes of the failed policies of the Bush administrations.......

Am I drunk on Kool Aid? No... I am a realist and I see what we have become in the world's eye... I see how we have ignored and decimated our middle class.... I see how we have become a fascist/plutarchic state........

[sheikwil]

I'm a donor and american donor that glady gave and will continue to give.

[j.gold]

I was a virgin donor and I gave to Obama after 44 years of donation celibacy!!! It feels so good to have someone to vote FOR!

[barackobama4prez]

agreed.

[DallasMike]

Yea but how many of those doners are foriegn?

[OldKnute]

Foreign?????

Oh,, you mean like,,,,

African Americans, German Americans, Japanese Americans, British Americans, Russian Americans, French Americans, Norwegian Americans, Italian Americans Spanish Americans. Greek Americans, Hungarian Americans, Polish Americans, Swedish Americans, Philippine Americans, Mexican Americans?

????

OH,,,,, you mean like Native Americans?????

Yes, First Aation Americans are probably donating too.

All the best

Knute Neo-LIB

[rinpochet]

I'm an American but born in England, raised in Australia. Guess I'm foreign too?

[honeydiva]

how many of 0lds donors are anicent?

[bitter84]

just you

[Cassie129]

Ooooh, good point. RME.

I just gave him yet another $25. It's these kinds of comments that keep the money pouring in. I keep finding ways to find that extra $25.

Well, I guess I am ferrrrrrrrrn. I live in CA, am Jewish and attend a Unitarian Church. And I vacationed not once, but TWICE in that ferrrnnn land, Hawaii.

All ferrrrrrrrn.

[KillTheMessenger]

I am, for sure. As a foreigner living in this country I know a lot better than Americans what this country needs (because I don't care about what it wants). So it's only natural to support the candidate who puts out the best effort to bring sanity into this lunatic's asylum.

[paulbikes]

I agree fully. Ive lived overseas and i can fully appreciate peoples hatred towards my country. Looking at the u.s. from the outside in its instantly obvious what a joke our freedoms and democracy have become.

This "democracy" needs a complete overhaul. and americans need to get up and take part in it.