DNC goes small
Some great DNC stats from the 2004 Progress Report email that just showed up in my inbox. This is the basis for a great, grassroots effort in the next few elections, especially if we start to field candidates that stand up for the right things and connect with voters.
- In 2000, the DNC only raised $35 million in small donations. Most of our resources -- over $150 million -- came in large donations. But in 2004, there was a remarkable turnaround. This year, the vast majority of our funding -- over $248 million -- came from average Americans donating what they could, while large donations actually went down to just $105 million -- less than a third of our total.
- In the past four years, the DNC expanded its small donor base seven fold, from 400,000 in 2000 to 2.7 million in 2004.
- The DNC invested $80 million in grassroots field organizing in 2004 -- 166 percent over 2000.
- The DNC fielded more than 2000 organizers in battleground states, and conducted 530 organizing conventions across the country, training nearly 80,000 attendees.
- We also mobilized 233,000 volunteers, knocking on 11 million doors, and making 38 million volunteer phone calls.