urgent: Obama Needs Money!

[TexanDem]

If this was posted earlier -- sorry for the dup, so please consider it a kick.
I'm just seeing it in my email.


Apparently McCain and GOP have saved up for the last hoo-rah! I thought
Obama had plenty of money to wind it down.

If you can donate something, guess it would be a good idea to do so now!

here's a copy of part of the letter, though I guess most of you got it, too:

____________________

-------Original Message-------

From: Marianne Markowitz, BarackObama.com
Date: 11/1/2008 6:04:22 PM
To:
Subject: Re: UPDATE: Obama campaign finances

Yesterday the McCain campaign said they would outspend our campaign by $10 million in the final days. This is on top of recent news that, as of October 15th, our opponents had $20 million more in the bank than our campaign and the DNC combined.

As of this morning, they may be able to outspend us -- but your generosity in response to my last email gives me hope that by the end of the day, we can rise to the challenge.

We knew the McCain campaign was saving its resources for a last-minute blitz, and now we know just how much they'll pour into it.

No matter what, we need to match what our opponents are spending in the final stretch. We can't slow down between now and Election Day.

And if you give again today -- any amount -- you could be one of 5 previous donors who will have a front row seat for the big Election Night event in Chicago with Barack.


(snip)


Please donate $25 or whatever you can afford right now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/frontrow

My team and I are working to stretch every dollar in order to keep as many paths to victory open as possible. But we need whatever help you can provide for this crucial final stretch.

Thank you,

MM

Marianne Markowitz
Chief Financial Officer
Obama for America

[jemsan]

1. Sent my second $50 bucks in 24 hours!!

[99th_Monkey]

2. Huh? I was hearing yesterday that Obama had "three days to spend $100 Million". was that false? nt

[msallied]

5. They just want to be competitive in states like Arizona and Montana.

Obama has enough money to win this race.

[99th_Monkey]

9. Cool.

I'm retired on very fixed/low income, but I still sent Obama $10 and it felt fantastic.

I don't even care anymore if he uses it to pay off Hillary's debts. :-)

[Breeze54]

6. As of Oct. 15th, Obama had Cash on Hand: $65,762,929 and

Cash on Hand: $65,762,929
Debts: $2,302,457
Date of last report: Oct 15 2008 12:00AM

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

But he also has $22 million he hasn't accounted for yet.

How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports?

How to read this chart

Quality of Disclosure

Full Disclosure $330,536,978 (90.7%)
Incomplete $10,784,060 (3.0%)
No Disclosure $22,981,190 (6.3%)

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Can his campaign spend $66 million in 3 days? :shrug:

[99th_Monkey]

10. Thanks for all this detailed accounting...

... one of the things I love about DU, is that sometimes someone actually has something useful and on-point to share.


I don't mean to cast asparagus regarding Obama's reque$t; there's no time like the present to begin building up a
hefty Obama/Biden 2012 re-election war chest.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Triana]

3. Sent another $50 today n/t

[msallied]

4. Donated yesterday. He'll be fine.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. I got that too, but I donated again through DU. I think they just want to

be sure they can compete with the big haul the Repubs are trying to accumulate in 72 hrs. Hopefully, whatever Obama has left over will go to the DNC.

[bmartello]

8. just sent more $$ n/t

[Morning Dew]

11. Just donated through DU

it felt good.

[obiwan]

12. Careful. This may be a bogus "phishing" site.

If you have already donated, please check with your credit card company to make sure this is a genuine Obama site.

I say that because I have been donating to the Obama campaign for 2 years and I have never seen this address before.

[Morning Dew]

13. Well, I can't vouch for the link in the OP

but when I clicked on it a few minutes ago i had my info already filled in. I donated thru the DU page so I'm guessing it's the same site.

[BidenVP08]

14. Sent my last $100

I want this election and I want that shirt B-)