In what appears to be an amazing resurgence in his campaign, Ron Paul has apparently taken in more than $10.5 million in campaign donations. His website, ronpaul2008.com, displays a live, unaudited display of the people who have donated money to his campaign and the total unaudited amount raised. This figure is larger than Republican presidential front-runners Rudy Guiliani and Mitt Romney raised from outside sources for their campaigns for the previous quarter.

This is, in large part, thanks to the popular ThisNovember5th website - a grass-roots campaign which brought in $4.3 million in a single day. The donations weren’t from a small number of people, either: an estimated 20,000 people donated on November 5th, with an average of less than $100 per donation.

Just $2 Million shy of their $12 million goal, the Ron Paul campaign is optimistic that they can shatter their goal on December 16th, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, because another grass-roots campaign has apparently taken hold, called Tea Party 07. This campaign hopes to double the $4.3 million raised on November 5th, and if they could do that, the Ron Paul campaign could bring in almost $20 million for the fiscal quarter.