Subject: Re: This is critical:
From: Barack Obama <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:54:42 -0400

John --

When I'm out there talking to voters, we talk about what
we've done, what we plan to do over the next four years,
and why the other guys have dangerous plans to go back to
the policies that failed America for almost a decade. 

But there is another question that keeps coming up, and you
need to know about it: "Why do I see so many more ads for
the other guys?" 

You don't need me to tell you that the Romney campaign is
outraising us -- that billionaire ideologues and corporate
interests are piling on tens of millions more in negative
ads trashing us, and that all of it means that undecided
voters in battleground states like Iowa could be seeing
false, misleading, negative attacks at a rate almost twice
as often as they hear from us. 

Last week, when I was in Iowa, voters told me they were
feeling it. The numbers back it up: Our side is getting
outspent 2-to-1 on the air there. 

But the folks asking me about this don't want an
explanation -- they want to know what I'm going to do about
it. 

And the fact is that solving this problem is up to you. 

Close the gap on the air by making a donation of $5 or
more now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/72-Days17

You're getting this email because you know what the stakes
are in this election. You know the facts about what we've
done to prevent a deeper crisis and to start building an
economy that works for the middle class. 

But for someone who's not as engaged, these ads may be an
important and possibly even primary source of information
about the choice in this election. 

So it's a bad situation if 90 percent of them are false, negative 
attacks on us.

We're losing this air war right now. 

I don't have as much time to campaign this time as I did in
2008, so this whole thing is riding on you making it happen. 

Donate now to close the gap on the air: 

https://donate.barackobama.com/72-Days17

Thank you, 

Barack

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Paid for by Obama for America

Contributions or gifts to Obama for America are not tax deductible

This email was sent to: [email-masked]
To update your address, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/change-address?email=[email-masked]
To unsubscribe from these messages, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/unsubscription
To contact the campaign with any questions or concerns, go to: http://www.barackobama.com/contact-us
Obama for America, P.O. Box 803638, Chicago, IL, 60680