The newest fundraising e-mail from Obama doesn’t exactly radiate optimism (emphasis mine):
Katrina –
I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far.
I’m not just talking about the super PACs and anonymous outside groups — I’m talking about the Romney campaign itself. Those outside groups just add even more to the underlying problem.
The Romney campaign raises more than we do, and the math isn’t hard to understand: Through the primaries, we raised almost three-quarters of our money from donors giving less than $1,000, while Mitt Romney’s campaign raised more than three-quarters of its money from individuals giving $1,000 or more.
And, again, that’s not including the massive outside spending by super PACs and front groups funneling up to an additional billion dollars into ads trashing me, you, and everything we believe in.
We can be outspent and still win — but we can’t be outspent 10 to 1 and still win.
More than 2.2 million Americans have already chipped in for us, and I’m so grateful for it. As we face this week’s fundraising deadline, donate $3 or more today.
Every donation you make today automatically enters you to join Michelle and me for one of the last grassroots dinners of this campaign — today is your last chance to get your name in.
These dinners represent how we do things differently. My opponent spent this past weekend at a secretive retreat for the biggest donors to both his campaign and the super PACs that support him.
I’ve got other responsibilities I’m attending to.
Donate today to stand for our kind of politics: https://donate.barackobama.com/June-Deadline
Thank you,
Barack
Obama may be outspent in the election, but it won’t be for lack of hustling for donations, despite his “other responsibilities.” Obama was raising money in Boston last night, and is headed to Atlanta and Miami today for some more fundraisers. Furthermore, as of April, the number of fundraisers Obama had hosted exceeded the combined total number of fundraisers done by the past five presidents.