Here's our advantage

[Jim Wright]

Right now, Democrats have a major advantage, and it's because of you.

The overwhelming majority of the money we've raised for the fall
election has come from small donors giving what they can. In the
course of this campaign, we've received more than 3 million
contributions -- and that adds up.

The Republicans don't have a base of support like ours, and it shows.
They've tried to raise money from the PACs and the lobbyists, and
month after month, they've come up short.

Right now, when they should be ramping up their get out the vote
efforts, there are media reports that they're scaling back. Their
strategy is dependent on massive spending on attack ads by outside
groups. That's not nothing, but the field organizing just isn't there.

The ground is ours.

We've planned an unprecedented effort to take advantage of that fact.
We've got organizers in every state, volunteers in community after
community -- all of them working to make the one-on-one connections
with voters that make all the difference.

We've been out-working the Republicans for months. And it's becoming
clear how that is starting to pay off.

It begins with fundraising. Because of you and the contributions
you've made, we've been able to hire talented organizers and give them
the resources they need to go to work -- campaign offices, clipboards,
customized maps for volunteers going door-to-door.

They've been on the ground across the country for months -- recruiting
volunteers, training leaders, studying communities. Those volunteers
-- people like you -- have organized canvasses in their neighborhoods,
phone banks in their living rooms, and parties to watch the President
speak.

We've watched this organization grow for months, and the results we've
been able to deliver have increased exponentially. In the past month,
we've seen our voter contact program grow by 150 percent per week, and
it will continue growing each week until the election.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are drawing back. They've scrapped plans to
send staffers out into the states to talk to voters, planning to mail
out fliers instead.

Today, the ground is ours -- let's take it. Volunteer Today !

Jen O'Malley Dillon
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee