any predictions on 3rd quarter?

$15 Million counting all the 'un-official' money being poured into this campaign in the form of feet on the street, creatives, etc. Just look at the songs produced for Ron Paul alone! I mean how much is being the #1 candidate on YouTube worth in promo value?

Is what I predict !!!

Ron Paul should have brought in over $5 million this quarter. I would absolutely LOVE to see him around $10 million, that would knock everybody's socks off! He'd be on every news show you can imagine if that were to happen. I'm expecting him to be between 5, 6 Million though and if he didn't get that I'm going to be pretty disappointed.

I'd say he's close to $10M. He probably brought in $5M online, assuming a lesser number on average per day than what the "fill the quill" brought in. However, he's also been traveling the country, doing $1,000 per person briefings, $200 per person lunches, etc. I'd wager he's done close to fifty fundraising events this month alone - one of which brought in over $100,000. I think that between every source he's at close to $10M, which hopefully means some major media respect.

Whatever the campaign ends up pulling in for the 3rd Q, it does not need to be a figure comparable to Romney's, Gulliani's, et al. If you are a pro-war candidate, THEN you would need a comparable figure to the tweedledumb and tweedledee candidates. Simply surviving past the point the other second-tier candidates drop out should be part of the game plan at this point.

If the fill the Quill campaign holds true to the number of donations per day, I predict he hit 7.2 million

400 contributors per day @ 200.00 per donation times 90 days = 7.2 million

Yes some people will donate more, but some will donate less - just an average. Also didn't include mega days were he brought in $100,000 plus per day, which of late has been almost every outing.

5M is realistic for me.

for the 3rd quarter being very good is the fact that he has grown in support by leaps and bounds since last quarter. hes been getting much more media coverage than when he started. his showings in all the straw polls has to have raised some new supporters. lots and lots more fundraisers from both the supporters and Ron Paul himself with all the dinners and lunches at $1000 a plate.RP has been campaigning alot harder than last quarter and is becoming much more well known than last quarter. his rallies are getting bigger and more frequent than last quarter. the anticipation is killing me, i cant wait to see the results! i hope I'm right!

an interesting note...Marc Ambider who made predictions the middle of last week for most of the democrats and the "top 4" republicans left Ron Paul out of the mix. That could be really bad, as in, less than the four million predicted for McCain. Or it could be very good and he does not have any grasp on how big Paul's take will be...but the most important thing is that everyone contribute whatever they can in this last week, even if it's only 10 bucks...

$12 million.

That's my prediction.

Unfortunately, I think he will do a lot worse than we want him to. I'm worried to be quite honest. High end: 8 mil. Low end: around 5 mil.

I predict that he has done so well this quarter, the media will have to acknowledge him, or receive considerable blowback. I think once he gets more airtime, his support will just increase. He might not ever get on fox news, but im willing to bet MSNBC and CNN will. I also think he will go up in the "official" polls slightly.

We have to remember that Bill clinton had a poll rating of 2%, and jimmy carter was at 1%, so its not a good reflection of who will be our next president.