Moneybomb
[9] A large moneybomb involving over 35,000 donors[14] was created and proposed by James Sugra on October 14 through a YouTube video and organized by Trevor Lyman[15] took place on November 5, 2007, Guy Fawkes Day.
[21] Unofficial drives in support of Fred Thompson,[22][23] Barack Obama,[5] Mike Huckabee,[24] John McCain,[25] and Dennis Kucinich[26] were referred to by the media as moneybombs and seen as attempts to replicate the November 5 event.
[9] Thompson's campaign disavowed his supporters' effort, which was speculated to have failed because it had been scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving and due to lack of realtime donation tracking feedback.
[31] No fundraising drives for any campaign matched the success of the Fawkes bomb until December 16, when the moneybomb on the Boston Tea Party's anniversary,[32] organized entirely by online volunteers,[33] raised an amount estimated as $6.0–$6.6 million[8][34][35][36] ($6 million in approved credit card receipts),[37][38][39] from 58,407 individual contributors to Paul's campaign.
[41] Professor Anthony J. Corrado, a campaign finance expert, found the event "extraordinary ... What [Paul] has done is establish himself as a major candidate, and he's no longer a fringe voice.
[42][43][44] The first political money bomb in Canada was organized by Dr. Ryan Meili during his 2009 campaign for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP Party.
[citation needed] After winning the 2012 South Carolina Republican primary Newt Gingrich organized a two-day moneybomb asking supporters to fund a "knockout punch" going into Florida.
[54][55][56][57][58][59] In 2000, after defeating George W. Bush in the New Hampshire Republican primary, John McCain raised $1 million online in 24 hours.
[48] In November 2007, The New York Times and the Associated Press stated that the one-day fundraising record among 2008 presidential candidates was held by Hillary Clinton for raising $6.2 million on June 30, 2007.
[68] On September 3–4, 2008, the night after Sarah Palin gave her speech at the Republican National Convention, Barack Obama raised $10 million from over 130,000 donors.
On January 11, 2010, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate seat in Massachusetts, Scott Brown, used this method of fundraising to raise well over one million dollars for his campaign.
[75] In the 24 hours after the 2024 State of the Union Address, which occurred on March 7, Joe Biden's re-election campaign raised $10 million.
