Campaign 2012: Obama fundraising plea says he will be outspent (LA Times)

** The critical issue here being discussed on MSNBC now is that the Romney Superpacs will buy up all the television time in September / October so the dems need the donations now to reserve time or be blocked out.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/26/health/la-pn-obama-fundraising-plea-says-he-will-be-outspent-20120626


Last month, with the GOP nominating fight settled, Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee out-raised Obama and the Democratic National Committee for the first time, $77 million to $61 million—that’s one month’s total -- leading to the president’s entreaty on Tuesday. “I will be,” he warned, “the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far.”

Pitching to his supporters, the president requested $3 (or more) to fight back against an anticipated onslaught of $1 billion-plus in advertising “trashing me, you and everything we believe in.”

“We can be outspent and still win,” Obama emailed. “But we can't be outspent 10 to 1 and still win.”