If you've been to Obama's campaign homepage - I'm assuming one or two of you have seen it? - you know there's a little counter that keeps track of new donors in 2008.
Well, that counter is racing right now like a clock in a movie about time-travel.
Take a look.
For the past couple days I've been jotting down the numbers on it each evening. Here are the results for the days leading up to Wisconsin:
(taken at about 9pm EST; rounded)
2/13 431,400
2/14 440,500
2/15 446,600
2/16 452,100
2/17 454,400
2/18 458,200
2/19 462,100
So averaging about 5,000 new donors per day - before Wisconsin.
Now here are some results from the past 24hrs:
2/19 10:30pm 462,100
2/20
7:00am 493,000
9:00am 498,100
9:45am 500,700
12:09pm 507,000
1:46pm 512,500
2:34pm 515,400
4:14pm 518,500
4:50pm 522,600
So from the time when it was announced that Obama was the certain winner last night, to now, about 20hrs. later, they have added:
60,000 new donors!
(the rate of growth having increased about 15x!)
Even at an average first contribution of $25, that's still:
$1.5 million - from new donors alone!
And that doesn't even include repeat contributions from the previous 800,000+ donors to date (since the start of the campaign)
The February online intake is going to be absolutely HUGE!
My prediction: $50 million +