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 |
