The Democrats of South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District are probably dancing the Charleston on their rooftops all night and all day since the speech, not just for the president's hammering down on the right wing's conspiracy theories, but far more so because their "Great Blue Hope" now has a fighting chance against Rep. Joe Wilson.
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First off, I want to thank all of the netroots for being so kind and giving to Rob Miller, a distinguished war veteran, and giving him a huge stimulus for his next attempt to unseat Representative "Screamin' Joe" Wilson. Within 22 hours of the end of President Obama's speech, we (all of us) have raised OVER 500,000 American dollars for his 2010 campaign. If that isn't impressive, I don't know what is.
The current total amount of money raised can be found here: http://www.actblue.com/...
It just keeps growing!
For all you Kossacks, I recommend you donate through here: http://www.actblue.com/...
If the netroots can be this effective in raising money, imagine just how much we can accomplish in the 2010 midterm elections! Score one for the good guys. ;)
Update: $523,552
Update x2: $530,242
Update x3: $535,371
Update x4: $554,489
Update x5: $566,099
Update x6: $576,080
Update x7: $595,224 We're almost at $600,000!
Update x8: $600,239 Congratulations, we've just broke the $600,000 barrier!!!
Update x9: $629,814
Update x10: $668,579
Update x11: $692,766 It's growing faster than I thought possible late at night. I was going to make this my last update, but I'll do one more after the 700k barrier is broken.
FINAL UPDATE: $700,031 Well, we made it over the 700k barrier. Give yourselves a big round of applause, you've earned it. :D