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Dear Joseph,
Yogi Berra said: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." While I can't predict the outcome of the 2010 elections, I can tell you this:
Republicans will ratchet up the attacks and insinuations. Karl Rove's billionaire buddies will keep writing checks. And those checks will pay for plenty of dirty deeds. Republican-leaning groups are outspending Democratic ones by a massive 10-to-1 margin.
We know what we need to do. The DSCC must raise $490,430 in grassroots contributions in the next 48 hours. Your gift of $5 or more will help build on our momentum in states like Missouri and Kentucky, where new polling shows we're gaining ground. Holding onto the majority means nudging these 15 races that are within 5 points our way.
The final game-changing decisions will be made based on the numbers the DSCC reports on Sept. 30, folks. Don't let a lack of money lead to a lost Senate.
Click here to give $5 or more to the DSCC. If we can raise $490,430 by midnight Thursday, we can build on our momentum and keep the Senate blue. Every dollar you give will be matched, doubling your impact!
Look, you don't need a Ouija board to predict that GOP control would mean: privatizing Social Security, privatizing Medicare, privatizing veterans benefits and ending unemployment benefits. No billionaire will be left behind. Insurance companies will be back in control your health care. And Wall Street will be allowed to go back to playing Russian roulette with our economy -- aided by trillions in our Social Security funds.
If you want progress, you need Democrats. Tea Party Prince Jim DeMint has already vowed "complete gridlock" if Republicans win 10 races and take back the majority. Sen. DeMint is being modest. Their goal is to de-fund every facet of the middle-class American Dream.
We'll lose jobs when the GOP reinstates special tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas. We'll lose control of our health care when the GOP repeals our hard-won consumer protections against being dumped for getting sick. We'll lose our competitive edge when they take a hatchet to public education and a chain saw to student loans. We'll lose control of our fiscal destiny when they give another $700 billion in tax cuts to millionaires. And we'll lose our ability to keep our most powerful pledge to our veterans when they kill the VA and hand our veterans' health care over to greedy corporate interests.
We can't let them, and this is when the hard-core funding decisions are made. Be one of our 500,000 grassroots donors standing between Republicans and the Senate.
Click here to give $5 or more to the DSCC. If we can raise $490,430 by midnight Thursday, we can build on our momentum and keep the Senate blue. Every dollar you give will be matched, doubling your impact!
It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict this: With your help, WE CAN WIN. With your help, we can beat these Republicans and keep our country moving in the right direction. Count on it.
Sincerely,
Paul Begala
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