But the same Obama officials fret about the surging flow of mega-donations from conservative billionaires, especially since the Democrats' own billionaire game-changer, George Soros, has shown no inclination to do in 2012 what he did in 2008, when he was the leading source of personal donations.
Church members and friends, seeking some way of showing support, began donating on Rachel's birthday page — charitywater.org/Rachel — and donations surged past her $300 goal, and kept mounting.
Driven by a booming stock market and a $2 billion-plus fund-raising campaign, donations surged.
Donations surged to civil liberties groups in defence of Muslims, immigrants and freedom of speech.
Their video showed him in his vest underneath the headline: "Can he really run Canada's economy?" However, the only real effect the video seemed to have was on the Canadian Liver Foundation, who saw donations surge in the days after the advert was aired.
Mr. McCain is drawing on technology to try to speed donations to his surging challenge against Mr. Bush.
There has also been a surge in donations to US green groups since the election.
Since the law was signed, Judge Pratt said, Planned Parenthood of Indiana has seen a surge in donations from supporters.
This was the first time the Red Cross had hit Twitter's leaderboard, and Ms. Harman expected a surge in donations.
There was a surge in donations to Occupy Wall Street after the group was evicted from Zuccotti Park.
