Obama Campaign Has 'Some Bad News'

Within the night-and-day fundraising blitz the Democrats foist on their Internet supporters comes this latest, telling piece of email from Jim Messina, campaign manager, Obama for America. Seems the president is losing the fundraising battle.

"I'm asking you to dig deep, because I have some bad news," writes Messina.

"We just found out that Mitt Romney and the Republicans outraised us in the first half of this month, putting us $45 million behind during these crucial final days.

"The math here is pretty simple: With that cash advantage, they can outspend us by $4 million per day, every day, for the final 11 days."

Four years ago at this time, Obama's grassroots fundraising blizzard produced a frozen field of cash that helped him keep his message coming right through voting day.

There's no better proof that this isn't 2008 than hearing it straight from Campaign Manager Messina's own mouth, or computer.