Dear Haruna,
                                 
                                Remember Election Night 2010?
                                 
                                Remember watching Democrats you admired—progressive champions—giving concession speeches?  Remember shaking your head as radical right-wingers were declared winners?  Remember the first moment you realized that John Boehner was going to become Speaker of the House?
                                 
                                Not fun memories.  But here’s the thing: In a lot of states, the cake was baked a long time before the polls closed—not in 2010, but in 2009.
                                 
                                Every cycle, races are won and lost—months before anyone votes—because one side builds an early advantage that proves to be insurmountable. 
                                 
                                And if the DSCC misses its June 30th goal of $113,000, a Democratic Senator who’s fought to support President Obama for years will lose…a dangerous Tea Party radical will become a U.S. Senator…an open seat Democrats could have won will go to the GOP—and it might just be the takeover that gives Republicans a Senate majority.
                                
That’s what’s at stake on June 30th.  And with Democrats defending 23 seats—compared with just 10 for the GOP—we can’t afford to let any fall off the map now. So please click here and help the DSCC reach its $113,000 goal by making a $5 contribution now!
                                
                                    
                                        
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                
                                
Look, I know you’ve been getting a ton of emails about this deadline.  And I know it’s not easy to hear that, if we don’t act now, we’re going to lose races and maybe even the Senate.
                                 
                                But the GOP needs to take just four of 23 Democratic-held seats to take the majority.  And if we miss our June 30th goal, it’ll be like handing them a couple of freebies right from the start.
                                 
                                That’s why a group of Democratic Senators has put together a match—so that any contribution you make by clicking on this link before the deadline counts for double.
                                 
                                But 90 percent of the contributions that fund the DSCC’s operations—from hard-hitting response ads to its national grassroots organizing plan—comes from individuals like you.  And if individuals like you don’t step up to meet this deadline, there won’t be anything anyone can do later to make up for it.
                                 
                                Now do you see why we keep bugging you with all these emails?  Plain and simple, your response today will determine how many races we can win next year.  In fact, if the technology existed, I bet Future You—the one watching TV on Election Night 2012—would be forwarding these things to Present-Day You like crazy.
                                 
                                So do Future You a solid.  Please give whatever you can to help the DSCC reach its $113,000 goal before June 30th.
                                 
                                Thanks,
                                
                                Al Franken





 




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