The "Money Bomb"

Per the campaign of Dr. Ron Paul:

Ron Paul Campaign Has Top Day in 2008 Election Cycle

November 6, 2007

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA—Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has raised over $3.1 million in the past 19 hours, making today’s the single largest fundraising effort of the 2008 election cycle. At 4:00 pm, the campaign’s $2.7 million broke the record for the largest online presidential primary fundraising effort in a single day, and by 6:30 pm, the campaign broke Mitt Romney’s $3.1 million record for single-day fundraising this year.

Thus far today, approximately 25,000 supporters have contributed to the so-called “money bomb.”

BTW: You can follow Paul's fourth quarter fund-raising progress on his website. Right now, he raising something like $10k every 5 minutes or so. He started at $2.77 million at midnight ET.

As of 9:16pm AZ time, he's at $4.15 million in new contributions.

At 10:17pm, he at $7.13 total for the quarter. That's $4.36 for the "money bomb". That's right, he raised $210k in an hour.

UPDATE: The Politico's Jonathan Martin has a good story on today's events.

UPDATE II: Related Facebook group.