A petition with seven million signatures. Eight million people looking up the phone number of their Congress members. Hundreds of thousands of emails.

The numbers of the January Internet protest about the Internet bills Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, and the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, showed the world – and Congress – the formidable strength of the Internet’s users.

But despite of the loud outcry against the bills, there has been minimal impact on the campaign finances of those running against SOPA supporters like San Antonio Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, who sponsored the bill.

Smith has raised nearly three times as much as both of the other Republican candidates combined, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Candidates running for House and Senate seats had to submit a report of their finances for the first three months of the year to the FEC earlier this week.

Smith campaign raised $210,574 in the first three months of the year while the campaign of former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack has raised $25,289 and conservative activist and software engineer Richard Morgan has raised $7,160. Unlike Mack and Morgan, Smith also fundraised prior to the start of this year and currently has $1.3 million on hand.

Smith has also spent several times more than the other candidates combined. The $121,256 his campaign spent during the first quarter of this year surpasses the $5,808.96 spent by Mack’s campaign and dwarfs the $647.89 Morgan’s spent.

In addition, Morgan’s campaign is more than $5,000 in debt.

Although any candidate could be helped by an independent expenditure committee, such as a Super PAC, none have spent any money to support a candidate in Texas’s 21st congressional district race, according to the FEC.

Test PAC, an Internet-based non-committed PAC, has raised more than $11,500 against Smith, but has yet to endorse a candidate. Earlier this month, the Alliance for Internet Freedom was begun – another political action committee whose current focus is on ensure Smith is not re-elected.

Even with the opposition, Smith has a long history as representative for the district – he’s served the area in Congress for 25 years and has won the last three elections by a margin greater than 40 percent. His re-election is “100 percent guaranteed” said Mark Jones, the chairman of political science department at Rice University, pointing out that Smith’s incumbency and his role as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee make it easy for him to fundraise.

“I don’t think any of the Republican incumbents are especially vulnerable, but Lamar Smith wouldn’t even be at the top of the list of the most vulnerable,” he said.