On Monday alone, you guys raised just a couple hundred bucks shy of $100,000. Pretty incredible. We have several goals heading into this final week:
- 30,000 donors on the O2B page: We were at 18,160 at noon Monday. We're at 19,185 now, so 1,000 new contributors today.
Still, given that this site has over one million regular visitors, a lot of you are still on the sidelines. Some of you have given to other candidates, which is cool. Some of you can't give anything, and that's fine. We're living in tough economic times and you can contribute with GOTV. Some of you aren't American citizens, or are Republicans keeping tabs on us.
But there are still too many of you who can give at least $5 and haven't. You can't sit on the sidelines and expect others to carry the entire load. Reading a blog isn't contributing to the cause. There are at least 11,000 of you out there who still haven't stepped up. Please, please do. We're winning this thing because thousands are stepping forward with our small dollars and/or a few hours of volunteer time at a time. A lot of small contributions to the cause add up to a whole lot of action. (If you haven't given, give now.)
- $42,000 for Bob Lord: AZ-05 is John McCain's old seat, and it's held by one of the conservative movement's leading lights, John Shadegg. So we can make a statement, and make the National Review crew cry on Election Night. Can there be any better motivation to help fund Bob Lord's closing ad blitz? Note that this is one of the few races in which the NRCC is still engaged. They're fighting hard to protect this seat for the same reason we want to take it away.
We'll hit our goal by getting Bob Lord to $100,000 total contributions. (Help Lord take McCain's old seat.)
- $70,000 for Gary Trauner: WY-AL was once held by Dick Cheney, and is one of the three most Republican states in the country. Taking this seat would be a huge victory. $70K pays for the campaign's final ad blitz in the Salt Lake City media market, hitting southeastern Wyoming. You need one more bit of motivation? Check this out:
We get Wyoming, a big chunk of that map turns Blue. Come on, admit it -- you want that map as Blue as I want it! (Help paint this map Blue.)
Help us meet our ambitious goals.
Update: Here's a best-case scenario for the Western third of the U.S.: This map requires winning the WY-AL, which so many of us are helping turn Blue. It also includes winning the Alaska at-large seat, ID-01, WA-08, CA-04, NV-02 and NV-03, AZ-01, NM-01 and NM-02, and CO-04 -- all competitive.
Then, in 2010, we can focus on MT-AL as we continue on the path of not just political domination, but geographic domination as well. And for someone who is excited about the Democratic Party's center of gravity moving westward, I can't wait to see that deliciously Bluer map become a reality.