Subject: This is not a joke
From: "Jim Messina, BarackObama.com" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:28:55 -0500

Hunter --

These Republican candidates spent in some cases more than a year 
-- in Mitt Romney's case seven years -- campaigning in Iowa to be 
the next president.

But tonight, GOP voters there couldn't decisively get behind anyone.

Who exactly leads the Republican race going forward isn't clear, 
but we do know two things:

1) The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter 
who the Republicans nominate, we'll be running against someone 
who has embraced that agenda in order to win -- vowing to let 
Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll 
back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a 
woman's right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more 
tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.

2) We'll be facing an onslaught of unprecedented spending from 
outside groups funded by corporations and anonymous donors. 
In Iowa alone, so-called "super PACs" spent $12.9 million on almost 
exclusively negative ads. These groups will turn their fire even 
more directly on us in the weeks ahead to prove that their 
candidate is the most anti-Obama.

This race is officially on -- and if we want to win, the only way is 
to out-organize them on the ground.

Sign up to volunteer your time now, and one of our organizers in 
your community will give you a call by the end of next week to talk 
about how you can help:

http://my.barackobama.com/After-Iowa5

Many observers still think Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. 
If he is, we will be prepared. But it's curious that no one can really 
explain how, when or why the 70-plus percent of Republicans saying 
in polls and in Iowa that Mitt Romney's not their candidate will 
suddenly come around.

So the path ahead for Romney -- or whichever of the Republican 
candidates is going to emerge from this process -- is sadly and 
starkly very clear: to run even further to the extreme right, and make 
even more dangerous promises that threaten not only the progress 
we've made but the fundamental fabric of American society.

We also know that candidates who take these extreme positions can, 
in the right circumstances, win not only a primary but also a general 
election in just about any state. 

Just ask the Tea Party senators from Pennsylvania and Kentucky, 
and the Tea Party governors in Florida and Wisconsin.

Watching the circus on TV, it's tempting to think it's almost funny -- 
but this is not a joke.

We've got to be ready.

What you decide to do next will determine which kind of politics 
wins this election:

http://my.barackobama.com/After-Iowa5

More soon.

Messina

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

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