Quick Update

Dear Friend,

The 75,000th person who decided to own a piece of this campaign did it with just $5.

It happened late last night, as we hit our goal of 75,000 people donating to the campaign more than two full days in advance of the March 31st quarterly reporting deadline.

His name is Rashed. He's a Navy veteran and this was his first donation ever to a political campaign. We gave him a call from headquarters here in Chicago last night to thank him, and he told us that the reason he decided to give had a lot to do with his young daughter, Yasemin:

"Being an African American male, to have that positive role model in Senator Obama, it's given me so much hope. To be able to look at mydaughter one day and tell her, 'You can be anything you want in the world" ... In the past I might have said, 'You could be anything you want to be. But president? No' ... But now, he's given me that light. Now, I can tell her, 'You really can be anything you want in the world.'"

We're running out of time, but there's still an opportunity for you to be counted along with Rashed. We've got until midnight Saturday night to bring as many people and as many donation into the campaign as possible. Whether you've given before or this will be your first time, you can be part of this historic drive -- make a donation now and be counted:

https://donate.barackobama.com/peoplecount

More and more people stand up to be counted every minute, and I want to remind you that on Saturday afternoon you'll have a chance to meet some of them face to face.

There are thousands of community get-togethers across the country -- from Iowa to Alaska to Florida and everywhere in-between.

You'll be joining Barack live from an event in Iowa and have a screening of a special DVD created for the occasion. As we head into the quarterly fundraising deadline showcasing the breadth and depth of our financial support, these events on the same day demonstrate just how serious people are about organizing this campaign in their local communities.

Chances are there's an event (or two, or three) near you -- plug in your zip code to find out:

http://my.barackobama.com/march31

Thank you for all that you've done so far, and I hope you'll be a part of all the activity online and in your local community in the next 36 hours.

This is a campaign where people count, and everyone is counting on you to change this country.

Thanks,
David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

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