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David Plouffe, Barack Obama's Campaign Manager, asks supporters to help beat the RNC's Cash Machine
July 14, 2008
David Plouffe, Barack Obama's Campaign Manager, sent a video address to BarackObama.com's mailing list, displaying figures about the financial status of the RNC and McCain campaign and projecting they will spend this money on "untrue negative ads".
Following is David's message, transcribed from the video footage:
"Hi everybody,
It's David Plouffe, Barack's campaign manager. We just wanted
to spend a few moments with you updating you on where the race
stands and what our opponents are up to. If you look at the
Republican National Committee, which is probably going to be the main armor of the McCain
campaign, they have over 53 million dollars in the bank, and
that was at the end of May. Their financial position has
improved in the last month - the RNC's cash on hand is raising and so now we face a position
where both and the RNC together have 96 millions dollars in the
bank, almost a hundred million dollars. And we know how they
are going to spend their money, running untrue negative ads
all across the country. The McCain campaign made the point they
outspent us over three to one on television ads in the last
couple of months. They are using that RNC money, they are using
the McCain money they were ably to raise while we were still
engaged in the primaries to really spend a lot of money out
there. And so we have to make sure that we are matching that,
and the only way we can do that is for you all to continue to
help us, we can't count on anybody else. We can't wait for a
cavalry out there, the cavalry does not exist. We are
responsible for defending ourselves against these attacks.
So, the only way we can do this is obviously at the grassroots
level with your volunteer help and that needs to be financed at
the grassroots level as well. We currently have over 1.7
million donors. We're going to ask all of you who are part of
that group to give again if you can to help us continue to
strengthen this campaign and those of you who haven't
contributed yet – we really need you to get involved now, to
make your first contribution, to match the volunteer work we're
sure you're already doing for us, so that you can help grow
this campaign. So just know that we treasure and value you're
relationships with us, what you've already done for the
campaign, but the only way we're going to be successful these
next 16 weeks, is if you get involved at a historic level to
allow us to win. So thanks for your time today and thanks for
all you've done."
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The following information was presented through slides during the above video message:
CASH ON HAND – McCain campaign and RNC:
May - $85M
June - $96M
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Rick Davis, McCain campaign manager: "From April to this point, we've spent almost three times the amount of TV spending that Obama has" (July 7, 2008)
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UNPRECEDENTED GRASSROOTS SUPPORT (for Barack Obama)
- over 1.7 million total donors
- over 1 million volunteers
- over 150 field offices in 22 battleground states
- over 70,000 supporter events organized by more than 1 million
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