After SC Win, Obama Donations Hit $500,000 per Hour

By Eric on January 27, 2008

By now you’ve certainly already heard about Barack Obama’s big win in South Carolina. This was huge. Check out the numbers. Obama beat Hillary Clinton two-to-one, 295,091 votes to 141,128. More importantly, if you do the math on the Republican side of the page, you’ll find that Barack Obama got more votes than John McCain and Mike Huckabee combined!

But votes aren’t the only numbers in this presidential race. There’s also online contributions–donations from people like you and me–and last night’s win made a big difference in the money race.

A source inside the Obama campaign says the candidate’s web site has seen one of its best hours tonight, raising $525,000 in one hour. A senior aide inside the Obama campaign said the candidate’s site saw its “highest peak” tonight in both online donations and traffic, “bigger than after Iowa, bigger than after New Hampshire.”

The Obama campaign measures online donations every 15 minutes, and the source said that online money was pouring in at the rate of more than $500,000 per hour.

Wow. That’s a ton of money. Every two hours, another $1 million! I don’t know how long the donations were rolling in at that amount, but even if it was just for a couple hours, that’s a huge amount of cash for the campaign.

Take a listen to Obama’s victory speech below, and, if you’re as inspired as I was, maybe you’ll consider making a small donation of your own.

Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, online donations, South Carolina

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