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Ron Paul's online money machine

02:38 AM CDT on Tuesday, July 10, 2007

By Lee McGuire / 11 News

Ron Paul may not be leading in the presidential polls, but he has raised a lot of money.

In an unimposing bank building rising behind an unimposing donut shop - is Representative Ron Paul.

He’s the Lake Jackson congressman, who quietly admits to wondering how he’s gotten so much attention. “I just don’t know and nobody knows, but all I can say is, the reception has been many, many fold greater than I ever dreamed.”

On the Internet, more surfers look for Republican Ron Paul than for Paris Hilton, or the iPhone.

And so many people have found their way to his campaign’s donation page.

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He now has more money than almost any other Republican candidate for President. “We raise tens of thousands of dollars every single day. And after a debate it might be a hundred thousand dollars.”

Rudy Giuliani has $18 million of so-called “cash on hand.”, Mitt Romney has $12 million.

Ron Paul has $2.4 million.

That’s not much, but more than John McCain, who has a struggling at $2 million.

“Sometimes these campaigns are like government. They have a lot of money and they’re wasteful and they hire too much staff and they become bureaucratic. And I think that’s sort of happened to some of those campaigns. They hire too many people, they have their own jets,” Paul.

The problem with raising money on the Internet is, it raises expectations in the real world.

And Ron Paul’s poll numbers are still holding at between zero and two percent nationwide.”

So he’s focusing on free media.

He also appeared on Comedy Central, spreading his anti-war message on cable and on the web.

He says he’ll start to spend money, when the straw polls in New Hampshire and Iowa get underway.

For now, he’ll stay unassuming, and let the web, do the work.

 

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