Barack Obama sent out an email this afternoon making a bold claim: his campaign has raised money from 100,000 online donors since the beginning of the year.

After the New Hampshire primary last week, we set a goal of 100,000 online donors in 2008 — a goal we hoped to reach before the Nevada caucuses on Saturday.

Last night we got there five days early.

Think about that: 100,000 donors in 15 days.

That response has boosted our entire organization and proven that this movement for change is just getting started.

This is simply a huge number of of supporters. A year into his campaign, Obama’s raised money from about 500,000 donors, which averages to about 9600 new donors a week. But in the last two weeks alone he’s averaged about 50,000 donors a week. That’s darn impressive, and it looks like Barack Obama has displaced Ron Paul to become the online fundraising juggernaut of the campaign.

After Iowa Paul sent out an email to supporters asking them to help him raise $23 million to get him through Super Tuesday. Since Paul’s campaign makes their fundraising information publicly available in real time (here’s lookin’ at you, Barack), it’s easy to discover how much he’s raised since then.

As this chart on RonPaulGraphs.com shows, Paul has raised money from a total of 14,000 donors since Dec. 31, and only 6,000 donors in the last two weeks. In 2008, Obama has raised money from almost seven times as many donors as Paul.

Paul has raised $1,235,000 since the beginning of the year, but we have nothing from Obama with which to compare it. Come on, Barack! Make those numbers public!

One thing’s for sure, though: Obama’s on fire, possibly raising more money from more people online than he or anyone else every has before.