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 Here are three facts every Obama supporter needs to know:
-- The Romney campaign and Republicans just beat us for the third month in a row, raising $X million to our $X million. The fundraising gap shrank from $X million in June to $X million this past month, so we're gaining ground, but we still have a lot of work to do, and time is running out.
-- In the last two weeks of July, Romney and his allies enjoyed a nearly 2:1 spending edge in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Virginia.
-- Last week alone, they outspent our side $X million to $X million in advertising.
The generosity of 2.4 million supporters like you -- your willingness to believe that regular people can still decide elections if we all pitch in -- is the reason we're still in this in spite of that spending gap.
I'm asking you to give now because we have to keep narrowing it every day we can. Please donate $X or more today. 
What is really going on here?
For one, the other side has the difficult task of promoting a candidate whose policy actually raises taxes on middle-class families to pay for tax cuts for people like himself. Under a Romney presidency, a family with kids would see their taxes go up an average of $X.
So instead of telling the truth about Mitt Romney, our opponents are spending an unprecedented amount of money trashing Barack Obama on TV in swing states.
In Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina -- and that is just a sample -- the average person is seeing more than 20 of the other side's ads per week.
We can't match what they're doing on TV -- and we're not going to try.
But we have to keep the gap close if our volunteers and organizers on the ground in those same states are going to be able to bring this home in the end. They're knocking on the doors of the folks who are seeing these ads. They're fielding the questions on the phones.
Our job is to make sure our opponents' misleading and false attacks aren't the only source of information voters get between now and November -- that they're not inundated to the point where they lose sight of what's at stake.
You have a big role to play in that. Start now by helping to close the fundraising gap.
Please donate $X or more today:
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Messina
Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America
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