BREAKING: Obama counter

Yesterday I posted a diary about how Obama's new donors had slowed to a trickle. "Obama in big trouble!! ($ is drying up)" I admit it was an alarmist title to get people to read the rest of the diary but if what I had observed was true Obama would have had a problem. Now I am starting to think that the Obama camp is playing with the numbers on the counter.

Some had speculated that the counter isn't working correctly or that the Obama campaign is purposely controlling when #'s are added so they can time the announcement of the 1.5 million mark to a time that is most advantages for them but no-one presented any proof of this. (I have a call into a contact with inside knowledge but haven't gotten word back)

But now it seem something is going on. In the 24hrs period since my first post Obama had added only 430 new donors. In the time since I started writing/rewriting this diary (30 mins) the counter has gone up almost 4,000 new donors. I have to post this quick since the numbers keep changing.

Day Time                      Number of Donors        New Added     Time Period
4/29/08-1:30 PM        1,445,343
4/30/08-1:58 PM        1,445,773                        430                     24hr
4/30/08-6:31 PM        1,446,610                        837                     4 hr 33 min
4/30/08-6:42 PM        1,447,311                        701                             11 min
4/30/08-6:53 PM        1,448,518                        1,207                         11 min
4/30/08-7:02 PM        1,449,628                        1,110                           9 min
4/30/08-7:16 PM        1,450,623                         995                            14 min*

Times are EDT

So what do you think - is the Obama camp play with the numbers or what??

Authors Note:I am Dyslexic, it is a battle (which I often lose) to write without error. Thanks in advance for putting up with my mistakes - and providing corrections in the comments

*Updated since original post