Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, and will be a grassroots donation-day to raise lots of money for Ron Paul. 

$$$$$$$$$$$$$Mad Money Loves Ron Paul$$$$$$$$$$$

 There was another candidate  president who wanted to Ax' the Fed a while back if people remember him.

"On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid."
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On the November 5th Ron Paul money drive he had 17,500 pledges before the start of it, but received 4.3 million dollars. If you do the math, more people donated 100 dollars than actually signed up in advance with a pledge so you can guess he had around 43,000 donors.

This time he has 33,107 pledges as of right now at 9:03 pm EST 12/15/07 at the Tea Party 07 site.

So he has about twice as many $100 pledges this time around. The goal I saw on some of the youtube videos was to raise 10 million in one day, but odds are he's going to end up short. I think that was the "goal" last time but even getting 4.3 million is an astounding amount of money to get.

 
If he ends up having more donors than pledgers at the same ratio as last time it appears he will raise about 8.6 million tomorrow, which adds on to his 11.5 million already raised in Q4, which will make him far and away the largest fund raiser among the Republicans. My guess is the extra media attention...might get him over the 10 million mark...then again maybe I am being optimisitc.

He is easily set for a 20 million dollar quarter.

Can you not help but think about poor Howard Dean? 

 Didn't Dean want one of these things too?

The Republican race is becoming increasingly tight. Drudge has this CNN poll of South Carolina. Now Paul is way back in the pack, but at the same time, he's only 6 percentage points from 2nd place, and this is the first time he's been in double digits in the early three states.

Huckabee 24%
Thompson 17%
Giuliani 16%
Romney 16%
McCain 13%
Paul 11%

And then there's Iowa too, which is tightening.

 
Iowa Republican Caucus poll done by the "Quad City Times" 

Huckabee- 31%

Romney- 22%

Giuliani- 9%

Thompson -9%

McCain and Paul both at 7%

A third place finish in Iowa would be a large boost to Paul going into New Hampshire and North Carolina, and he will have enough money to extend the race whereas some of the others may not.

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He has such loud supporters, how can you not like him?

 Ron Paul radio going 24-7 right now. I'm not sure what they are going to talk about all night but ithat's what they are doing. Will there be a Fox News black out of it tomorrow? 

Some in the GOP are annoyed with Paul, but it seems he isn't going quietly. 

Here's a link to graph that compares today's numbers with November 5th on a continous basis. 

The slope at the beginning of the night has been about 2X or greater than the November 5th slope. Should be a lot of money.

Here's a graph by state- Alaska, Montana and New Hampshire have a strong donations base. 

Live link from Boston at the Tea Party.