August 30 was an important day: the day when former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney achieved his long sought prize and accepted the Republican Presidential nomination — definitively stepping into the role with his major acceptance speech. And it therefore stands to reason it was a a day of fundraising emails. Both Romney and President Barack Obama sent them to their supporters.
Here’s Romney’s delivered before his speech:
Dear Friend,In a few hours, I’ll take the podium before a Republican Party that has been united and inspired by a common conviction:
We believe in America.
We believe in America, even though the last four years have been full of difficulties and disappointments, doubt and despair.
We believe in America, even though millions of American families are worried about their jobs, their mortgages, their children, and their future.
We believe in America, even though President Obama’s failed policies have left us with record high unemployment, lower take-home pay, and the weakest economy since the Great Depression.
But we also believe that America can do better, because decline is not our destiny.
I commit to you that I will be the president this moment demands.
I ask you to commit like never before — donate $20.12 to support Paul and me and the entire Republican team.
It will be my privilege to stand at the podium to accept the nomination. And I will stand not just for every supporter, and not just for the Republican Party — I’ll stand for every American who believes our best days are ahead.
Thank you,
Mitt Romney
And here’s Obama’s sent after Romney’s speech:
Friend —
Tonight was their night.
But our focus must be on tomorrow.
The fundraising deadline tomorrow is one of the last we get to build the campaign it takes to win.
Will you donate $5 or more right now?
https://donate.barackobama.com/August-Deadline
I’m proud to be on this team.
Let’s go.
Barack
P.S. — With 68 days to go, I’m counting on you to help us keep pace in spite of unprecedented spending on the other side. Pitch in before the big deadline tomorrow.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.