Perhaps Sharron Angle’s “September to Remember” online fundraising campaign should be renamed the September Surprise. The GOP hopeful has far exceeded expectations, easily beating her one million dollar online goal with a day and a half yet to go in the month.

According to her website, Angle has raised over $1.6 million in September so far. Her campaign this morning told Battle ‘10 they brought in over $123,000 just yesterday and that it hopes to reach at least $1.7 million by the end of the day tomorrow.

Deputy campaign manager Jordan Gehrke said the campaign fully expected to meet their $1 million September goal, while admitting the total amount raised has been a surprise.

“We’ve raised 60 percent more than our goal, so we are pretty happy,” said Gehrke.

The campaign attributes some of Angle’s success to her many media interviews but said it is also due largely to the campaign’s presence on the Nevada airwaves.

“When we did that large buy earlier this summer, it was a calculated decision tied into fundraising,” said Gehrke. “We believed that if we could compete with the Reid campaign on television and at least stay even in the polls, the money would follow.”

And follow it has, with little reason to think it will stop.

“We believe we will now be able to raise all we need–and more–going into these final weeks of the election,” said Gehrke. “We are discussing our goal for October, but whatever it is, it will be ambitious.”

“Reid is not going to let up in October, and neither will we,” added Gehrke.