Activity Report: August 19th-25th, 2007
This is our second installment of our new Weekly ActBlue Activity Reports. Last week’s is posted here. (Week over week changes in parentheses).
One note: I have recalculated the total # of contributions and average contribution size and corrected last week’s entry to match. The new method counts each separate line-item as a contribution when one donor gives to multiple candidates on a page during a transaction. This will increase the total # of contributions and decrease the average contribution size compared to the old method but is more accurate.
Total Amount Contributed last week: $289,414.07 (+ $63,151.77)
Total # of Contributions: 4285 (+ 2,101)
Avg. Contribution size: $67.54 (- $36.06)
Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 212 (+ 25)
Here are the Top 5 Recipients on ActBlue last week by number of donors.
| Rank | Name | District | Donors | |
| 1 | Darcy Burner | WA-08 | 1627 | |
| 2 | John Edwards | President | 809 | |
| 3 | Al Franken | MN-Sen | 201 | |
| 4 | Rick Noriega | TX-Sen | 129 | |
| 5 | San Diego Democratic Party | CA-County | 126 |
Here are the Top 5 Candidate Recipients on ActBlue last week by total amount raised.
| Rank | Name | District | Raised | |
| 1 | Darcy Burner | WA-08 | $55,435.14 | |
| 2 | John Edwards | President | $54,678.07 | |
| 3 | Niki Tsongas | MA-05 | $18,297.00 | |
| 4 | Rick Noriega | TX-Sen | $16,464.30 | |
| 5 | Jared Polis | CO-02 | $12,410.00 |
Here are the Top 5 ActBlue Fundraising Pages last week by number of donors.
| Rank | Name | Donors | Raised | Average | |
| 1 | Burn Bush for Burner | 1449 | $49,401.19 | $34.09 | |
| 2 | John Edwards | 768 | $53,320.42 | $68.12 | |
| 3 | Blue Majority | 262 | $11,994.31 | $23.84 | |
| 4 | Netroots for Rick Noriega | 117 | $15,451.01 | $132.05 | |
| 5 | The People’s Email Network | 62 | $2,135.00 | $34.43 |
For ActBlue, this past week’s most notable activity is the Netroots effort to raise $100,000 for Darcy Burner in Washington’s 8th Congressional District as a counter to a visit by President Bush to fundraise for the Republican Incumbent. That effort has been great example of blogs using referral codes to track which contributions they were responsible for driving towards the effort. That way, the campaign can see how much the DailyKos community, readers of Atrios, or other blogs have given towards the effort.
