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NOM Fundraiser Falls Drastically Short- By About $98k

1 September 2011 by Bridgette P. LaVictoire

How much money can the National Organization for Marriage dredge up to push their radical bigoted agenda?  Apparently not as much as they though.  The way that this was set up was that for every Facebook like, Twitter follow or text message, NOM would get $1 from a wealthy donor.  Well, NOM had better hope that the donor is going to cough up the money anyway since they managed to get a total of 931 new Facebook likes and 298 Twitter followers from 6/24 until 9/1.

There is no accounting for the number of text messages, but it seems unlikely that they will have gotten as many as 98,771 text messages.  As NOM Exposed points out “Now, there is always the text message factor to up the tally. But that one’s a total long shot, considering the comparable time consumption of the act, the text number’s lack of prominence, the requirement of a SMS-capable phone, and the relative impracticality of receiving SMS updates rather than Twitter or Facebook notices. So I’d be willing to guess that the text tally is even lower than the other two. It’d be impossible for me to believe it’d be enough to put the money haul above even 1k, much less anything close to 100k.”

It gets to be more fun than that, really.  NOM is facing a set of battles in New York, where they have committed to trying to unseat enough legislators to be able to overturn their marriage law; in Minnesota and North Carolina where there will be new anti-marriage amendments on the ballot; and possibly in Colorado, where they may have to defend an anti-marriage amendment.

So, would anyone be surprised if NOM miraculously managed to get almost 100k text messages?