Obama to pals: We're losing to Romney!

Matt Rhoades of the Mitt Romney campaign somehow got a hold of a letter that Obama-Biden campaign director Jim Messina sent to donors. It read:

Tonight, some combination of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum will give victory speeches after the next round of Republican primaries.

All you really need to know: According to a new poll, if the general election were held today, we would lose to Mitt Romney.

Now, many other polls put the President on top, but all point to the same reality: We're looking at a race that will be tighter than you think. And the other side has groups ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tear down President Obama.

I know that March doesn't feel as urgent as September or October will. But we're running a grassroots campaign -- that means we're building this organization one donation at a time. It's not the easy way to do it, but it's the right way. And we know we'll be up against someone with a virtually unlimited supply of cash to attack us and President Obama.

If you can't imagine a scenario in which Mitt Romney defeats Barack Obama, just look at the numbers. It's a real possibility, and we have to start acting like it.

If you've been waiting to give, now is the time to do it. Donate $3 or more today

It's funny to see the president's much-ballyhooed billion-dollar machine begging people for $3 donations. But it certainly appears they're quaking in their boots over Romney. They're certainly not afraid of Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich, who scare many conservatives more.

Meanwhile, I had to love this discription of how Romney carried American Samoa yesterday, which put him over the top in terms of delegates for the day:

About 70 Republicans in the U.S. territory located 2,300 miles south of Hawaii met at Toa Bar & Grill to discuss the candidates and select delegates for the Republican National Convention in August. At the end, the six delegates chosen and the three superdelegates who will accompany them to the convention all said they would support Romney.

All these Southerners are going to the polls and the candidates are criss-crossing the states, and out in American Samoa some guys meet in a bar, and that helps Romney win the night. Hilarious.