Here's something a United States Senator rarely can ask or do: Give me just 60 seconds of your time. Only 60. That's all the time I need to tell you where we stand.

In just seven hours, Paul Ryan is going to take the stage at the Republican convention, and I bet he won't trumpet publicly his "grand" party's pledge to pass Todd Akin's ban on a woman's right to choose with no exception for rape -- or his party's pledge to deny marriage rights to same sex couples. But look for yourself -- those pledges are carved in stone in his party's platform.

So what you do before the FEC deadline in 48 hours is critical. Click here to contribute $X because you support women's rights, click here because you want to protect President Obama.

Here's what we know from the polls in the news: Romney and Ryan are ahead by two in Ohio, three in Virginia, one in Wisconsin, and one in Florida. The Washington Post reports these polls "show Romney asserting a lead…in a way he hadn't before." And we are only 48 hours away from the most important FEC deadline of this election.

You know what a Republican takeover of the White House and Senate would mean for our country. Please click here and contribute before this critical deadline.

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