A Million in a Minute for Obama?
By Joshua Levy, 04/17/2008 - 4:30pm

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This just in: Katherine Seelye at the New York Times reports on an initiative from an Obama supporter that sounds like Ron Paul on steroids.

Some fans of Senator Barack Obama have set up a new Web site with the goal of raising $1 million in one minute.

The minute starts at 1 p.m. on Monday, the day before the presidential primary, though donors can pre-register through AnObamaMinute.com.

Scott Cohen, the independent filmmaker behind the idea, has no connection with the Obama campaign.

The project is reminiscent of a similar day last November, when Ron Paul supporters organized a 24-hour fundraising drive independent of the campaign that ended up raising more than $4 million dollars in a single day.

Will this drive work? It’s an awfully short amount of time to raise an awfully large amount of money (the site offers several idealistic scenarios in which the money could be raised, like “500,000 Janitors x $2 = $1,000,000”). Even if it fails, we love seeing voters strike up these projects independent of the campaigns.

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