Ever since
Darcy Burner (WA-08) was announced by Matt Stoller at MyDD as a
Netroots Endorsed candidate on May 23, I've been tracking the progress of
her ActBlue fundraising numbers. However, surely due to being pre-occupied with other things, like, oh... I don't know...
YearlyKos perhaps, Kos never got around to updating the list of Netroots Endorsed candidates in the Daily Kos sidebar.
I contacted Kos asking him to please do so. I'm sure others did to. We made mention of it many a diary and comment.
Finally on Monday, Kos announced that he had updated his list and added Darcy Burner to it.
Thank you!!
This, plus recent mentions at MyDD and Swing State Project, have done wonders for Darcy Burner's ActBlue numbers:
In the 34 days from May 23 to June 26, there were...
124 new netroots donors (3.65 / day),
raising $3,402.01 ($100.06 / day),
and overall 133 new ActBlue donors (3.91 / day),
raising $3647.03 ($107.27 / day).
In just the past 2 days, since Kos added Darcy Burner to his sidebar list, there have been...
48 additional new netroots donors (24 / day),
raising $974.39 ($487.20 / day),
and overall 50 new ActBlue donors (25 / day),
raising $1,044.39 ($522.20 / day).
Basically all but 2 new donations in the past 2 days have been netroots donations.
In addition...
27.91% of all new netroot donors since 5-23 have come in the past 2 days,
22.26% of all netroot dollars since 5-23 have come in the past 2 days,
27.32% of all new ActBlue donors since 5-23 have come in the past 2 days, and
22.26% of all ActBlue dollars since 5-23 have come in the past 2 days.
The impact of donations in the past 2 days when compared to the past 34 days prior to that has been huge.
The Burner campaign has just completed a 10 day fundraising push that raised $82,000. They are now in the midst of a final end of quarter push to raise $50,000 more, and we expect to hear them announce that they've raised contributions in the seven figure range for the campaign when the final numbers are announced next month.
Being Netroots Endorsed is a big deal for a candidate, but having Kos himself mention a candidate that is Netroots Endorsed is priceless, and as a blogger who lives in Darcy's district I couldn't be happier for all the support this is driving her way to help her defeat Bush Republican Dave Reichert.
Thank you to all that have made donations!