GOP tries to raise $5M in next three days

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says in a new fundraising plea that the GOP needs to raise $5 million in the next 72 hours to compete with the GOTV efforts of Democrats.

The e-mail to supporters, ostensibly from Palin, says that the race is tightening but warns that Democrats are better funded than Republicans.

{mosads}”The Obama-Biden Democrats are using their financial edge over our candidates to flood media markets with ads, stuff mail boxes with their literature and pay workers to canvass neighborhoods,” the e-mail says.

The e-mail warns of one-party rule under Democrats, saying a Democratic-led Washington would raise taxes and “spread the wealth.”

GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and Palin accepted public financing, so any contributions would not go to their campaign.

“However, federal law allows the McCain-Palin Campaign’s Compliance Fund to defray legal and accounting compliance costs and preserve the campaign’s public grant for media, mail, phones and get-out-the-vote programs,” the e-mail says at the end. “Contributions to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 will go to the Compliance Fund, and to participating party committees for Victory 2008 programs.”