MoveOn needs $2.4 million to help put Kerry 'Over the Top'

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Mon Sep-13-04 03:45 PM
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MoveOn needs $2.4 million to help put Kerry 'Over the Top'

Edited on Mon Sep-13-04 04:14 PM by G_j

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Dear MoveOn member,

Next week, 500 talented organizers will hit the ground in battleground states, and our ambitious $5 million Leave No Voter Behind field program will begin in earnest. We're aiming to turn out over 440,000 unlikely voters for John Kerry in the battleground neighborhoods where it matters most. Polling shows that this race is still neck-and-neck, which means that these hundreds of thousands of voters could easily tip the election. (More on the poll numbers below.)

So far, tens of thousands of MoveOn members have generously given over $2.6 million to make this program happen. But to launch the program, we need to raise the remaining $2.4 million this week. Whether you can give $1,000, $100, or even $10, we need your help today to win back the White House.

You can contribute quickly and securely, by credit card or check, at:

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/leavenovoterbehind.html

We've posted a progress bar on that page so you can watch our progress towards this big goal.

Though you'd never know it from the TV news, a close look at the polls shows that the Republican convention was actually a bust for the President. According to the Gallup polling agency, Bush's bounce was "one of the smallest registered in Gallup polling history, along with Hubert Humphrey's two-point bounce following the 1968 Democratic convention George McGovern's zero-point bounce following the 1972 Democratic convention . . . Bush's bounce is the smallest an incumbent president has received."<1> Bush's speech received slightly worse ratings from voters than John Kerry's, and according to the same Gallup poll, a remarkable 38% of voters said the convention made them less likely to vote for Bush.<2>

The truth is that after hundreds of millions of dollars in negative advertising, after the "Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" attacks, after four nights of prime-time convention TV, and after four years in the bully pulpit of the White House, George Bush is still just neck-and-neck with John Kerry in the race for the Presidency.

When the MoveOn.org Voter Fund polled likely voters in battleground states last week, Kerry was only two percentage points behind George Bush -- within the margin of error, and within reach of victory.<3> Together, we can close that gap by reaching out to millions of these swing-state voters and convincing hundreds of thousands of them to come out for Kerry on November 2nd.

Can you help us get Leave No Voter Behind off the ground?

Contribute toward our $2.4 million one-week goal at:

https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/leavenovoterbehind.html

Karl Rove has taken his best shot. Now it's time for us to take ours.

Sincerely,

--Adam, Eli, Hannah, James, Laura, and the whole MoveOn PAC Team
September 13th, 2004

Footnotes:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/login.aspx?ci=12922

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=183679

MoveOn.org Voter Fund 17-state battleground poll, 9/7-9/9/2004
PAID FOR BY MOVEON PAC www.moveonpac.org
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.