goal: 7 Million Monday

By Aziz P. -
Yup, that's right. The bat reads $6 million dollars. Note that this is the total for the quarter, not just the amount raised since Friday. Joe Trippi posted to the official blog about this jaw-dropping figure, but didn't post here, so I'll excerpt:

That is a surge in contributions of $2.8 million in just eight days. Of the $2.8 million over $2 million has come from Internet contributions -- including our first $500,000 day on Friday June 27th.

To put this in perspective the McCain for President campaign had a surge of $2 million in Internet contrbutions -- but that happend in the days after Sen. McCain's victory in New Hampshire in January 2000.

The bat only goes to $6.5m as a goal, but we can and we must help Dean reach the $7 million mark by Monday. Sunday and Monday need to be $500,000 days.

Already the Dean Nation all-star Team has raised almost $800 towards our own $10,000 pledge goal - and we can do better.

We need to make June 30th "7 Million Monday" ! So please, dig in and do what you can - donate to Dean today!

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