Remember that guy Sean Tevis*?
With the awesome XKCD style campaign comic? Remember how it said in the comic "No candidate for state representative in Kansas has ever had more than 644 donors. This would become the subject of newspaper stories"?
Well it did. In both The LA Times and The Wall Street Journal. As well as his local paper, The Kansas City Star (so local his wife works there). He blew his fundraising goals of the water - over 5700 people and over $95,000. And his mom has to record messages for 4 people who gave the max donation (from the sound of it he hadn't actually talked to her about this before offering her services. heh.)
His opponent is now saying he thinks he can use the out-of-state fundraising against him, and he probably has a point about that. On the other hand, without money Sean never would have had a chance in the first place and he went about it brilliantly. So color me impressed.
* yeah, ok, I never actually posted about him myself.
But several other diarists did. And I did give him my $8.34, which I don't regret at all even though he managed to raise over 3 times what he set out to. And he still might lose, but the amusement was worth it.