# Politicians fundraise online with e-mail

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/07/19/politicians-fundraise-online-email/
- Published: 1999-07-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Political leaders in the US are using e-mail to raise funds for their campaigns.
Elizabeth Dole raised $37,000 and Senator John McCain raised at least $25,000 via
this method. The anti-impeachment online campaign Move On has been even more successful,
raising $350,000.

 

 

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Political leaders in the US are using e-mail to raise funds for their campaigns.
Elizabeth Dole raised $37,000 and Senator John McCain raised at least $25,000 via
this method. The anti-impeachment online campaign Move On has been even more successful,
raising $350,000. However, campaigners for publisher Steve Forbes did not disclose
how much money an e-mail appeal in early July had raised.

 

 

 

 

Senator Robert Dole raised a total of $60,000 online throughout his 1996 campaign,
so online income is clearly increasing. McCain and Elizabeth Dole both raised around
half of this amount using e-mail alone in under a week.

 

 

 

 

Read Rebecca Fairley Raney’s article [Candidates Try Asking for Money Via E-Mail](http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/cyber/articles/15campaign.html)
in the New York Times. You can also read the text of the e-mail appeals of Elizabeth
Dole, John McCain and MoveOn.

 

 

 

 

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