Campaign Manager Dave Contarino sent this email out to grassroots supporters across the country today

Dear %%FIRSTNAME(Friend)%%,

You may not know this but the Iowa Caucuses are not like a regular election. It's more like a state full of 1,781 town meetings happening simultaneously in all 99 counties at the exact same time. And the outcome is usually very different from the polls.

And between the great poll news we got yesterday and the hard work we've done on the ground, we have a real shot at shocking the world on Thursday!

You can see it in the crowds. People are packing the Governor's events! The Des Moines Register had this to say:

"Democrat Bill Richardson always jokes he's no rock star, but he got treated like one today as a boisterous crowd of about 400 people cheered, whistled and waved Richardson signs at a campaign rally in downtown Des Moines."

And Reid Wilson of Real Clear Politics chimed in:

"If the big crowd on a frigid weekend afternoon -- when most rational people are snuggly watching football games -- is any indication, RichMentum may be the next buzz word of the 2008 campaign."

You can see what they mean in this video from last week.

The Iowa caucuses always break late. And this year, they're breaking for Bill Richardson! Your $50, $100, or $250 will help us keep our thousands of volunteers working right up until Thursday night.

After that, it's my job to bring their hard work to fruition. Let me boil it down for you.

The delegates all go to caucuses -- essentially meetings -- across the state at 7PM and declare for whatever candidate they back.

Then the horse trading and arm twisting begins because the delegates of any candidate who doesn't get at least 15% of the votes go to their second choice.

And that's where OUR numbers surge. Because we know we have at least 15% of the delegates in most precincts across the state. And we know that we're the second choice of at least 25% of the other delegates.

It doesn't take an Albert Einstein to figure out how we can surprise the pundits and turn this race upside down!

Just to put this all in perspective, in 2004, both Kerry and Edwards did 10-12% better than the final polls showed. If that happens to us -- we win.

But we've got to have the resources here to pull this off! Help us NOW and be one of the people who aren't surprised when Bill Richardson muscles his way to the top on Thursday!

To an outsider, it might look like chaos here. But what I see is the culmination of nine months of hard work by all of us -- and you, %%FIRSTNAME(Friend)%%.

Thanks for everything you've done up to now. And please, help us get this done!

Dave

P.S. A group of national supporters have stepped up and offered to DOUBLE ANY CONTRIBUTIONS we receive by midnight tonight! Please help NOW!