Subject: 982,967
From: "Jim Messina, BarackObama.com" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:48:27 -0400

Hunter --

Remember that deadline we kept emailing you about a couple weeks ago?

Here's what you should know about what we'll report to the FEC tomorrow:

    -- In the third fundraising quarter of this year, 606,027 people donated to this 
campaign -- even more than gave in the record-breaking previous quarter.
    -- Those people gave more than 766,000 total donations -- 98 percent of 
them $250 or less, at an average amount of $56. That's more than twice as 
many donations than we had at this point in the historic 2008 campaign.
    -- We are focused on building infrastructure that will help us win in 2012. 
And each quarter we set a combined goal for the campaign and our allies at 
the Democratic National Committee. We far exceeded our goal of $55 million 
this quarter between the two organizations.
    -- Together, Obama for America and the DNC raised more than $70 million. 
And it all happened during a summer when the President was focused on doing 
the job he was elected to do -- a summer when we had to cancel a series of 
fundraising events and ask everyone to dig a little deeper.

If I could sum up this last quarter in a few words: Supporters like you came through.

Here's even bigger news: Right now, 982,967 people have donated to this 
campaign. We're within striking distance of 1 million donors.

It's not too late for you to be part of that first million. And get this --  another 
supporter is willing to match whatever donation you make today.

Double your impact and be part of the first million people to own this campaign 
-- make a donation now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Million-Match5

Part of the reason we send you all these emails is that we don't accept any money 
from special-interest groups or Washington lobbyists.

So getting to a million grassroots donors isn't just a huge accomplishment this early 
in the campaign. It's our answer to our opponents, the press, and anyone who wants 
to know whether the President's supporters have his back.

The reality is that on top of the hundreds of thousands of supporters from 2008 who 
decided to make another donation, 257,635 people made their first donation ever to the 
Obama organization -- continuing the record pace we set in the previous quarter.

That support translates directly to what we can do on the ground. In the past three 
months we've grown our organizing staff by 50 percent, and opened up three new field 
offices every week. Thousands of volunteers and organizers made 3 million phone 
calls and in-person visits to voters.

That's all because nearly 1 million people decided to take ownership.

And the continued pace of that growth is up to you -- we will open more offices, train 
more organizers, and knock on more doors at the pace you make possible.

When Republicans think it helps their political fortunes to block the progress that the 
President is advocating for, we have to speak up and mobilize.

You know why it's important to engage right now. We're up against a Republican Party 
and special interest-funded groups that will spend hundreds of millions of dollars 
spreading any message that they believe will defeat the President and roll back our 
efforts to build a fairer economy that rewards hard work and responsibility, not large 
corporations.

But we've also got to build for the long term. That's what all the fundraising and deadlines 
are about: building the organization now that will put us in a position to win in 2012.

Thanks for all you did to get us here. I'm excited for what's ahead, and I hope you'll 
take part in the push to 1 million grassroots donors today.

Match another supporter's donation, double your impact, and become part of the first 
million today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Million-Match5

Thanks,

Messina

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

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