ActBlue 2007 Stats Week: Monday

Comparing the 2005-2006 election cycle to the 2007-2008 election
cycle.

Total Amount Raised on ActBlue in 2007: $16,872,127.06
Total Amount Raised on ActBlue in 2005: $1,684,797.22

Total Number of Contributors in 2007: 169,287
Total Number of Contributors in 2005: 23,816

Average Contribution in 2007: $119.00
Average Contribution in 2005: $78.28

Top Ten Candidates in 2007

by # of contributors:

Candidate	Race		Contributors
John Edwards	President		53,433
Tim Johnson	SD-Sen		5583
Donna Edwards	MD-04		5582
Darcy Burner	WA-08		4189
Dennis Kucinich	President		3126
Rick Noriega	TX-Sen		3081
Eric Massa	NY-29		2577
Mark Pera	IL-03		2290
Charlie Brown	CA-04		2067
Joseph Sestak Jr	PA-07		2067

By amount raised:

Candidate	Race		Amount Raised
John Edwards	President		$4,096,830.41
Mark Warner	VA-Sen		$579,706.04
Joseph Sestak Jr	PA-07		$387,316.13
Rick Noriega	TX-Sen		$342,554.50
Tim Johnson	SD-Sen		$323,192.06
Niki Tsongas	MA-05		$320,298.28
Bill Richardson	President		$310,262.50
Jared Polis	CO-02		$308,584.03
Steve Novick	OR-Sen		$277,048.82
Donna Edwards	MD-04		$268,569.68

Activity Report: October 1st-20th, 2007

This is our latest installment of our Weekly ActBlue Activity Reports. This is a special 3 week edition to cover what's happened in October since our last set of reports.

Total Amount Contributed: $1,005,545.02
Total # of Contributions: 11,117
Avg. Contribution size: $90.45

Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 438

Here are the Top 5 Recipients on ActBlue by number of donors.

Rank	Name	District	Donors
1	DraftGore.com	PAC	2875
2	John Edwards	President	1452
3	Niki Tsongas	MA-05	547
4	Blue America PAC	PAC	383
5	Chris Dodd	President	354

Here are the Top 5 Candidate Recipients on ActBlue by total amount raised.

Rank	Name	District	Raised
1	DraftGore.com	PAC	$156,794.66
2	John Edwards	President	$109,261.50
3	Niki Tsongas	MA-05	$55,452.28
4	Iowa Democratic Party	Party	$26,505.00
5	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	$23,295.00

Here are the Top 5 ActBlue Fundraising Pages by number of donors.

Rank	Name	Donors	Raised	Average
1	Eschaton- Candidate Good Behavior	288	$15,218.36	$31.63
2	Don't Hurt Sick Kids	252	$7,440.06	$17.71
3	Blue America '08	226	$31,985.68	$23.12
4	People's Email Network	141	$4,760.00	$23.21
5	Draft Udall	79	$1,000.08	$7.57

It's been a busy few weeks for the start of a new fundraising quarter. Over $1 million has flowed through to Democratic campaigns. Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize caused lots of excitement among donors putting one of the draft committees urging him to run atop of the lists. Niki Tsongas recently won her special election to the MA-05 seat bringing her activity up to the top of our lists as well.

ActBlue Q3 Stats Week: Thursday

Yesterday we looked at the top candidates on ActBlue for the third quarter.  Today we'll look at our ActBlue fundraising pages, where any individual, organization or campaign can support the candidates and causes of their choice.

Before we look at the individual pages here are some big picture numbers. Since ActBlue started three years ago, 5,011 different fundraising pages have been created. In the 3rd Quarter of 2007, 757 new fundraising pages were created.

And now, the Top 10 lists of ActBlue fundraising pages by number of donors and dollars broken down by lifetime totals and those for the recently completed Q2.

Top 10 fundraising pages by # of donors (Q3-2007)

   donors | page name
  -------+----------------------
   9,698 | johnedwards
   2,446 | burnbush
   1,526 | welcomebacktim
      995 | blueamerica08
      962 | bluemajority
      938 | thepen
      905 | warner
      811 | netrootsfornoriega
      473 | couragecampaign
      448 | roadblockrepublicans

Top 10 fundraising pages by # donors (Lifetime)

donors   | page name
---------+---------------------
49,518 | johnedwards
14,444 | netrootscandidates
  8,994 | hackett
  6,157 | blueamerica
  5,526 | pacforachange
  3,555 | eschaton
  3,421 | takebackthecongress
  2,758 | dnc
  2,450 | republicanfirewall
  2,446 | burnbush

Top 10 fundraising pages by $ (Q3-2007)

$ amount | page name
------------+---------------------
  $713,600 | johnedwards
  $402,647 | warner
  $141,675 | netrootsfornoriega
    $88,185 | burnbush
    $85,189 | dansealsforcongress
    $75,169 | welcomebacktim
    $71,124 | bluemajority
    $70,909 | blueamerica08
    $49,444 | donfornewmexico
    $40,425 | novick4senate

Top 10 fundraising pages by $ (Lifetime)

$ amount  |  page name
------------+--------------------
$4,035,098 | johnedwards
$1,544,139 | netrootscandidates
   $612,749 | dansealsforcongress.com
   $545,300 | blueamerica
   $463,889 | hackett
   $402,647 | warner
   $366,947 | dkos
   $320,100 | sos-all
   $282,485 | pacforachange
   $276,557 | christine
   $249,582 | republicanfirewall

As you can see, a mix of different approaches are represented on these lists. Some are dedicated pages for particular candidates, like Dan Seals or Mark Warner, who use ActBlue for their online campaign contribution. Others are being used by current officeholders to raise on behalf of their colleagues (and challengers), such as the effort by 12 Senators for for Sen. Tim Johnson.  And still others, like the various netroots pages, represent the collective voice of online communities in their efforts to support a wide range of candidates.

ActBlue Q3 Stats Week: Wednesday

On Monday we looked at some of the big picture numbers at ActBlue. Today, we're going to take a look at candidates and campaigns behind those numbers, both for the 3rd Quarter and for ActBlue's history. For the lifetime Top 10's we've had some 08 candidates break into the list for the first time (outside of John Edwards of course) so I've started noting those candidates with the year these numbers represent. It is likely that some of the current Top 10 Lifetime candidates will be replaced by themselves if their 2008 totals exceed those from 2006.

Top 10 entities by # donors (Q3-2007)

	Campaign	Race	# Donors
	John Edwards	President	10399
	Darcy Burner	WA-08	3421
	Tim Johnson	SD-Sen	2418
	Eric Massa	NY-29	1310
	Rick Noriega	TX-Sen	1156
	Dennis Kucinich	President	1100
	Keeping America's Promise	PAC	990
	Charlie Brown	CA-04	968
	BlogPAC	PAC	928
	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	919

Top 10 entities by # donors (Lifetime)

	Candidate	Race	# Donors
	John Edwards (08)	President	51239
	James Webb (06)	VA-Sen	16363
	Ned Lamont (06)	CT-Sen	12420
	Claire McCaskill (06)	MO-Sen	11090
	Jon Tester (06)	MT-Sen	10709
	Paul Hackett (05)	OH-02	10627
	Joseph Sestak Jr (06)	PA-07	9300
	Harold Ford, Jr. (06)	TN-Sen	7378
	Eric Massa (06)	NY-29	7187
	Darcy Burner (06)	WA-08	6584

 

Top 10 candidates by $ raised (Q3-2007)

	Candidate	Race	Total Raised
	John Edwards	President	$762,101.39
	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	$412,823.19
	Rick Noriega	TX-Sen	$159,201.92
	Niki Tsongas	MA-05	$149,263.00
	Tom Harkin	IA-Sen	$143,429.27
	Tim Johnson	SD-Sen	$126,405.55
	Darcy Burner	WA-08	$116,819.06
	Dan Seals	IL-10	$108,924.84
	Linda Stender	NJ-07	$101,545.08
	Joseph Sestak Jr	PA-07	$98,111.99

Top 10 candidates by $ raised (Lifetime)

	Candidate	Race	Total Raised
	John Edwards (08)	President	$4,170,250.41
	James Webb (06)	VA-Sen	$894,042.36
	Joseph Sestak Jr (06)	PA-07	$868,287.01
	Dan Seals (06)	IL-10	$538,659.87
	Paul Hackett (05)	OH-02	$528,664.33
	Tim Mahoney (06)	FL-16	$507,553.44
	Ned Lamont (06)	CT-Sen	$453,027.51
	Eric Massa (06)	NY-29	$415,751.68
	Mark Warner (08)	VA-Sen	$408,158.19
	John Morrison (06)	MT-Sen	$395,795.56

ActBlue Q3 Stats Week: Monday

The federal end-of-quarter (Q3) has come and gone! So let's spend some time looking at our ActBlue totals, donors, and contributions. I'll be breaking these apart for the 3rd Quarter and comparable periods as well as the lifetime of ActBlue. This is just day one of a whole week of interesting stats and data here on the ActBlue blog.

Total Contributions
Lifetime:        $29,027,471.89
2007 to date:  $11,377,358.58 (+ 48% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:      $4,814,059.61 (+ 39% from Q2 of 2007)

The 3rd Quarter of 2007 represents 42% of all contributions so far in 2007 and nearly 17% of all contributions made on ActBlue over the least 3 years. To put this in perspective, the amount raised in this past quarter is about as much as was raised in ActBlue's first 2 years. The totals raised so far in 2007, an off-election year, are outpacing those of the same period in 2006, an election year. And if you want to compare 2007 to the same period in 2005 (both off-years) then the increase is a staggering 1,015%. Wow.

Total Number of donors
Lifetime:        260,795
2007 to date:  102,523 (+45% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:      40,551 (+ 40% from Q2 of 2007)

The 3rd Quarter of 2007 contains 40% of all donors to candidates through ActBlue so far in 2007 and nearly 16% of the number of individual donors on ActBlue since its inception. An interesting note, the average donor gives to 1.74 candidates per donation through ActBlue (because of donors' ability to give through multi-candidates pages at ActBlue).

Average contribution size to all entities
Lifetime:        $64.13
2007 to date:  $94.95 (+ 49% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:     $93.35   (- 6% from Q2 of 2007)

At the end of last quarter I made the prediction that "as individual fundraisers and grassroots communities grow we expect the average contribution size to naturally fall later in the cycle." It looks as if in the short term this is turning out to be true. The average contributions size in Q3 is down nearly 6% from that of Q2 this year and while still higher than the lifetime average, is trending back towards the lifetime average of $64.13 per contribution. (Just to note, the average contribution size is not calculated using the number of "donors" but rather the number of "contributions"- the reason being that one donor can make multiple contributions in one transaction by giving through a multi-candidate fundraising page.)

Join us again tomorrow when we explore the topic of top candidates on the ActBlue Blog.                

The federal end-of-quarter (Q3) has come and gone! So let's spend some time looking at our ActBlue totals, donors, and contributions. I'll be breaking these apart for the 3rd Quarter and comparable periods as well as the lifetime of ActBlue. This is just day one of a whole week of interesting stats and data here on the ActBlue blog.

Total Contributions
Lifetime:        $29,027,471.89
2007 to date:  $11,377,358.58 (+ 48% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:      $4,814,059.61 (+ 39% from Q2 of 2007)

The 3rd Quarter of 2007 represents 42% of all contributions so far in 2007 and nearly 17% of all contributions made on ActBlue over the least 3 years. To put this in perspective, the amount raised in this past quarter is about as much as was raised in ActBlue's first 2 years. The totals raised so far in 2007, an off-election year, are outpacing those of the same period in 2006, an election year. And if you want to compare 2007 to the same period in 2005 (both off-years) then the increase is a staggering 1,015%. Wow.

Total Number of donors
Lifetime:        260,795
2007 to date:  102,523 (+45% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:      40,551 (+ 40% from Q2 of 2007)

The 3rd Quarter of 2007 contains 40% of all donors to candidates through ActBlue so far in 2007 and nearly 16% of the number of individual donors on ActBlue since its inception. An interesting note, the average donor gives to 1.74 candidates per donation through ActBlue (because of donors' ability to give through multi-candidates pages at ActBlue).

Average contribution size to all entities
Lifetime:        $64.13
2007 to date:  $94.95 (+ 49% from same period 2006)
Q3 of 2007:     $93.35   (- 6% from Q2 of 2007)

At the end of last quarter I made the prediction that "as individual fundraisers and grassroots communities grow we expect the average contribution size to naturally fall later in the cycle." It looks as if in the short term this is turning out to be true. The average contributions size in Q3 is down nearly 6% from that of Q2 this year and while still higher than the lifetime average, is trending back towards the lifetime average of $64.13 per contribution. (Just to note, the average contribution size is not calculated using the number of "donors" but rather the number of "contributions"- the reason being that one donor can make multiple contributions in one transaction by giving through a multi-candidate fundraising page.)

Join us again tomorrow when we explore the topic of top candidates on the ActBlue Blog.                

Activity Report: September 16th-23rd, 2007

This is our latest installment of our Weekly ActBlue Activity Reports. The last posted report is here. (Week over week changes in parentheses)

Total Amount Contributed last week: $558,860.97 (+ $180,451)
Total # of Contributions: 3,441 (+ 506)
Avg. Contribution size: $162.41 (+ $33.48)

Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 268 (+ 2)
Total # New Campaigns & Committees receiving funds : 18

Here are the Top 5 Recipients on ActBlue last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	District	Donors
	1	John Edwards	President	643
	2	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	229
	3	BlogPAC	PAC	216
	4	Andrew Rice	OK-Sen	113
	5	Chellie Pingree	ME-01	80

Here are the Top 5 Candidate Recipients on ActBlue last week by total amount raised.

	Rank	Name	District	Raised
	1	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	$77,955.01
	2	John Edwards	President	$52,217.79
	3	Tom Harkin	IA-Sen	$48,679.00
	4	Chellie Pingree	ME-01	$36,070.50
	5	Rick Noriega	TX-Sen	$15,809.16

Here are the Top 5 ActBlue Fundraising Pages last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	Donors	Raised	Average
	1	Not One Red Cent	199	$6,156.13	$30.93
	2	Netroots for Rick Noriega	66	$15,126.38	$229.18
	3	Restore Habeas Corpus	47	$3,460.02	$40.70
	4	Kansas DemoFest 2007	44	$4,715.00	$107.15
	5	Blue America '08	41	$4,753.57	$69.34

Last week's activity saw Maine congressional candidate Chellie Pingree join the Top 5 lists. Fundraising for BlogPAC also picked up as it was the beneficiary of this week's hottest fundraising page which was featured in a recommended diary at DailyKos.

Activity Report: September 9th-15th, 2007

This is our latest installment of our Weekly ActBlue Activity Reports. The last posted report is here. (Week over week changes in parentheses)

I've added a new statistic this week- the total number of campaigns/committees who received funds for the first time though ActBlue. These are often new campaigns that have filed and started raising money and will continue to do so into the future. Others are candidates or groups ActBlue has listed in our directory for some time and have only just now had their first contribution through us.

Total Amount Contributed last week: $378,409.86 (+ $59,418)
Total # of Contributions: 2,935 (- 2,457)
Avg. Contribution size: $128.93 (+ $69.77)

Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 266 (+ 45)
Total # New Campaigns & Committees receiving funds : 27

Here are the Top 5 Recipients on ActBlue last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	District	Donors
	1	John Edwards	President	628
	2	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	300
	3	Tim Johnson	SD-Sen	205
	4	Tom Harkin	IA-Sen	89
	5	Rick Noriega	TX-Sen	81

Here are the Top 5 Candidate Recipients on ActBlue last week by total amount raised.

	Rank	Name	District	Raised
	1	Mark Warner	VA-Sen	$74,071.08
	2	John Edwards	President	$48,021.21
	3	Tom Harkin	IA-Sen	$33,986.00
	4	Mark Schauer	MI-07	$15,064.00
	5	Rick Noriega	TX-Sen	$14,938.01

Here are the Top 5 ActBlue Fundraising Pages last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	Donors	Raised	Average
	1	Welcome Back Tim Johnson	166	$8,483.00	$51.10
	2	Netroots for Rick Noriega	66	$14,071.01	$213.19
	3	The People's Email Network	63	$2,236.00	$35.49
	4	Blue America '08	52	$3,807.03	$21.15
	5	Happy Birthday Eric Massa	33	$1,582.05	$47.94

A quick glance at this activity shows a lot of money moving into campaigns for the U.S. Senate. Last week saw the entrance of Mark Warner into the Virginia Senate race which helped rocket him up the ActBlue charts. Tim Johnson's colleagues continued to raise funds in honor of his return to the Senate which we discussed in this post. Sen. Tom Harkin hosted his 30th Annual Steak Fry over the weekend boosting him into the top tier as well.

Activity Report: September 2nd-8th, 2007

This is our latest installment of our new Weekly ActBlue Activity Reports. The last posted report is here. (Week over week changes in parentheses).

Total Amount Contributed last week: $318,991.07 (+ $29,577)
Total # of Contributions: 5,392 (+ 1,107)
Avg. Contribution size: $59.16 (- $8.39)

Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 221 (+ 9)

Here are the Top 5 Recipients on ActBlue last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	District	Donors
	1	Tim Johnson	SD-Sen	1632
	2	John Edwards	President	737
	3	Courage Campaign	CA PAC	470
	4	Keeping America's Promise Funds	PAC	200+
	5	Jim Himes	CT-04	149

Here are the Top 5 Candidate Recipients on ActBlue last week by total amount raised.

	Rank	Name	District	Raised
	1	Tim Johnson	SD-SEN	$77,982.05
	2	John Edwards	President	$50,879.38
	3	Tom Harkin	IA-SEN	$21,740.00
	4	Courage Campaign	CA PAC	$13,180.71
	5	Don Wiviott	NM-Sen	$11,520.00

Here are the Top 5 ActBlue Fundraising Pages last week by number of donors.

	Rank	Name	Donors	Raised	Average
	1	Welcome Back Tim Johnson	1620	$76,272.05	$47.08
	2	No More Dirty Tricks	425	$11,884.51	$27.96
	3	Blue America '08	183	$7,617.05	$15.80
	4	San Diego County Clubs Convention	81	$1,921.00	$23.71
	5	Where My Mouth Is	24	$775.03	$21.52

The most prominent effort last week is clearly the fundraising for Sen. Tim Johnson. For more on the effort, please read last Friday's post on the subject. In addition, you'll see the efforts of the Courage Campaign show up in this week's report. For more on that effort, read this post.

August ActBlue Activity Report

August is over so it's time for a monthly stats round-up of what's been happening in Democratic online fundraising over ActBlue.  Let's dive into some data- (change from prior month in parentheses).

Total Amount Contributed: $1,039,376.72 (+$396,938)
Total # of Contributions:       14,648 (+5,004)
Average Contribution Size: $70.96 (+$4.35)

Total # of Recipient Campaigns & Committees: 419 (+ 67)

Here are the Top 10 Recipients by amounts received through ActBlue in August.

	Name	Amount	Office
	John Edwards	$214,180.51	President
	Darcy Burner	$105,202.18	WA-08
	Niki Tsongas	$48,616.00	MA-05
	Rick Noriega	$39,696.13	TX-Sen
	Jamie Eldridge	$30,122.35	MA-05
	Jeff Merkley	$27,581.67	OR-Sen
	Jared Polis	$25,153.00	CO-02
	Russ Warner	$21,118.87	CA-26
	San Diego Democratic Party	$18,119.00	County
	Joe Alioto Veronese	$16,505.00	CA-SD-03

Here are the Top 10 Recipients by # of donors through ActBlue in August.

Name	Donors	Office
John Edwards	3,182	President
Darcy Burner	2,950	WA-08
Rick Noriega	539	TX-Sen
Daniel Biss	358	IL-HD-17
Dennis Kucinich	274	President
Jamie Eldridge	270	MA-05
San Diego Democratic Party	251	County
Jeff Merkley	245	OR-Sen
Al Franken	241	MN-Sen
BlogPAC	216	PAC

And here are the Top 5 fundraising pages by number of donors (excluding pages used by candidates solely to collect contributions directly from campaign websites).

	Fundraising Page	Raised	Donors	Avg.
	Burn Bush for Burner	$87,682.54	2429	$36.09
	Blue America '08	$24,525.30	372	$20.00
	Blue Majority	$16,265.42	349	$23.07
	Netroots for Rick Noriega for Senate	$30,849.16	324	$95.21
	Brotherhood 2.0 for Daniel Biss	$1,673.00	210	$7.96

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.