Lew Rockwell:

Thanks to Jeff Schulman for discovering that Ron Paul has received more military donations than all his opponents combined.

Paul: $286,764; 1349 donors
McCain: $79,597; 413 donors
Romney: $29,250; 140 donors
Huckabee: $24,562; 94 donors

Obama: $81,037; 466 donors
Clinton: $49,523; 181 donors

American Chronicle:

Ron Paul not only out-raised every other Republican candidate in the 4th fundraising quarter of 2007, but defended his 3rd quarter title as the United States military´s favorite candidate. This time, the victory was decisive. Paul received approximately three times as many Army donations as Senator John McCain, twice as many from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and more military donations overall than all the other Republican candidates combined. In fact, the United States Army alone was Paul´s biggest contributor, outstripping students and every other branch of the military.

Third Party Watch:

Fourth quarter fundraising reports are now available from the FEC, and it again appears that Ron Paul has received more in military campaign contributions than any of the other presidential candidates. It will take a while to comb through all of the data and provide an accurate final report, but preliminary analyses indicate that the general picture painted in Quarter Two and Three are not only true for Quarter Four, but military donations to the Paul campaign have actually accelerated.

Here’s one (surely incomplete) puzzle piece from LRC:

Paul: $286,764; 1349 donors
McCain: $79,597; 413 donors
Romney: $29,250; 140 donors
Huckabee: $24,562; 94 donorsObama: $81,037; 466 donors
Clinton: $49,523; 181 donors

From an AP wire piece describing Paul’s top three donor categories:

Members of the U.S. Army gave $34,987, students gave $33,566, and members of the U.S. Air Force gave $24,721.

From another LRC article:

Army:Ron Paul – 413 donations
McCain – 141 donations
Romney – 72 donations
Huckabee – 42 donations

Navy:

Ron Paul – 242
McCain – 185
Romney – 22
Huckabee – 33

Marines:

Ron Paul – 109
McCain – 67
Romney – 20
Huckabee – 23

Air Force:

Ron Paul – 137
McCain – 69
Romney – 10
Huckabee – 40

Coast Guard:

Ron Paul – 30
McCain – 4
Romney – 1
Huckabee – 3

Total Military Member Donations:

Ron Paul – 931
McCain – 466
Romney – 125
Huckabee – 141

Total Military Member Donations to McCain, Romney and Huckabee Donations Combined: 732

Ron Paul Total Military Member Donations: 931

To be sure, none of these reports will be totally accurate at the end of the day. Mining and sifting though hundreds of thousands of pieces of data provided on FEC reports is a complicated matter and it will take some time before more comprehensive reports can be generated. However, it seems that the picture of Ron Paul being the most popular candidate of the military is beginning to come into focus once again.