Later she found out that she would have had the right to get in as long as she was in line by 7 pm, so she could have run fast and gotten there. But it was too late.

From: Supporters of Joe Biden.

For immediate release

Dated: January 6, 2008

Subject:  “Dough4Joe: No Second Choice”–Joe Biden's supporters mount a petition and pledge drive to bring Senator Biden back into the presidential race.

Background:  It came as a shock to presidential candidate Joe Biden when on January 1'st, 2008 his campaign web-site was inundated with contributions, setting a record for a one-day period . . . and doing so on a national holiday of parades, bowl games and aspirin–an astounding achievement.

This phenomenon resulted from the efforts of  an independent group of Joe Biden's supporters in the on-line community and their determination to express a vote of confidence in Senator Biden's campaign with an eleventh-hour pledge drive.

These supporters spread the word on the “web.”  Putting the whole thing together over the Christmas holiday weekend and having less than a week to promote it, they still managed to raise enough awareness to have generated a one-day combined total of a whopping $80,000 in donations to the Biden campaign.  Indeed, that same level of enthusiasm spilled over into the next day when the campaign web-site saw another $27,000 come in on January 2'nd, one day before the Iowa caucus. 

Perspective:  What brought this about was, in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, Biden supporters “out-blogged” all other supporters of other candidates and even outperformed the renowned supporters of Ron Paul, with more substantive content being the relevant measure.

Currently:  Following Senator Biden's announcement of his decision to withdraw from the race, after finishing a distant fifth place in the Iowa caucus, the traffic to his campaign web-site exploded.  Hundreds and hundreds of comments were left on his blog, urging him to reconsider.

Knowing Senator Biden's only real obstacle to winning primaries and the general election would be a lack of awareness on the part of people who do not watch C-SPAN all day, or spend their Sunday mornings in church as opposed to being at home watching the Sunday morning political programs, on which he has been a regular guest for the past 35 years, Joe Biden's supporters are now expressing their determination in a new way–one that, if even marginally successful, will write a new chapter in the history of American politics.

They aim to flood the Senator Biden's offices with e-mails and telephone calls, and have put on-line a new web-site (Dough4Joe.com) called “Dough4Joe: No Second Choice.”

A sure sign the group have struck a chord with the on-line community can be seen when running a Google search for “Dough4Joe.”–resulting in literally hundreds of “hits.”

This web-based effort to both express and gather support and momentum for Joe Biden to re-enter the presidential race, reminds his supporters,  “We still have 'Promises to Keep'.”

The group of Biden supporters address their appeal for public support–in the interest of fairness, equal treatment, honest dialogue and open debate– to all supporters of any of the presidential candidates whom the Media has chosen to exclude or ignore.  They ask that an on-line petition be signed and that supporters of Senator Biden specifically also pledge to contribute to his campaign upon his announcement of a decision to accede to popular demand by re-entering the race.

Goals and Objectives:  This group of Biden supporters hopes to gather many thousands of signatures for the on-line petition and have set a pledge goal of Two million dollars, all actual donations not to be made until Senator Biden announces his intention to resume his presidential campaign.

For additional information please visit “Dough4Joe.com” on-line and while there, sign the petition.

We had 356 participants plus observers in the Iowa City Roosevelt grade school gym well over the safe occupancy level. We had to distribute 6 delegates over 8 candidates and the application of the viability condition under the overcrowded conditions was a massive failure. If the viability condition is not eliminated and replaced by true proportional representation the caucus will self-destruct.

Later she found out that she would have had the right to get in as long as she was in line by 7 pm, so she could have run fast and gotten there. But it was too late.

We had 356 participants plus observers in the Iowa City Roosevelt grade school gym well over the safe occupancy level. We had to distribute 6 delegates over 8 candidates and the application of the viability condition under the overcrowded conditions was a massive failure. If the viability condition is not eliminated and replaced by true proportional representation the caucus will self-destruct.