Sharing serious data with the people. This is how you create an engaged democracy. Begin forwarded message: > From: “David Plouffe, BarackObama.com” > Date: April 23, 2008 11:56:42 AM PDT > To: Francis Larkin > Subject: The facts > Reply-To: info@barackobama.com > > Francis — > > Last night, Senator Clinton used up her last, best chance to cut > appreciably into Barack Obama’s elected delegate lead. > > She came up short. > > In fact, she barely made a dent. At most, she picked up a net gain > of 12 delegates — less than our gain, for example, in Colorado > (where we gained 17) or Kansas (where we gained 14). Her gain in > Pennsylvania was less than half of our gain in Virginia, where we > added to our lead by 25 delegates. > > But there is one measure by which her campaign’s gains are real. > > The Clinton campaign claims they’ve raised $3.5 million dollars > since the polls closed yesterday. > > We can’t afford to let that go unanswered. > > Your support allowed us to come this far, and we need your help to > finish this. Please make a donation of $25 today to support this > campaign: > > https://donate.barackobama.com/thefacts > > Your grassroots support has brought the Democratic nomination in our > sights. > > Here’s how it breaks out: > > After Pennsylvania, we have a lead of at least 159 elected delegates > earned through all of the primaries and caucuses so far. We have a > total of at least 1493 pledged delegates. > > Meanwhile, we’ve been rapidly gaining ground among the so-called > superdelegates (elected leaders and party officials who get a vote > to choose our nominee), cutting Senator Clinton’s lead from more > than 100 early this year to less than 25. We have a total of 238 > publicly committed superdelegates. > > The total number of delegates needed to secure the nomination is > 2,024. That means we are only 293 delegates away from securing the > nomination. > In less than two weeks, we’ll square off in the key battleground > states of North Carolina and Indiana, when there will be as many > delegates at stake as there were last night in Pennsylvania. > > To grow our significant lead and close out this race, we must remain > competitive in these contests and the 7 others that will follow. > > Barack needs your support again right now to finish this race: > > https://donate.barackobama.com/thefacts > > Pennsylvania was considered a state tailor-made for Senator Clinton > — she was always expected to win, and we trailed by as much as 25 > points in the weeks leading up to the election. > > But thanks to you, Barack gained support among key voters in the > face of long odds and unrelenting negativity from Senator Clinton, > and kept the margin close enough that her delegate gain was > insignificant. > > Indeed, the only surprising result from Pennsylvania is how much > Barack was able to improve his standing among key voter groups since > the Ohio primary. > > Among white voters, Obama narrowed the gap by 6 points. Among voters > over 60, he nearly cut the gap in half, from 41 points to 24 points. > Meanwhile, we continued to run strong where we have all along — for > example, winning voters ages 18-24 with over 65% of the vote. > > Barack campaigned hard in Pennsylvania. He talked about his plans to > stand up to the special interests and bring people together so that > we can change Washington to turn our economy around, make sure that > every American has quality health care, and bring this misguided war > to an end. > > An additional donation of $25 can make sure we grow our lead and > finish this race in the final 9 contests: > > https://donate.barackobama.com/thefacts > > Thank you for all your support, > > David > > David Plouffe > Campaign Manager > Obama for America > > > > > > > > > Paid for by Obama for America > This email was sent to: francis.larkin@gmail.com > > To unsubscribe, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/unsubscribe > >
