Article snippet: Mirroring her recent tumble in the polls, Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign disclosed on Friday that she’s facing a sharp drop in fund-raising in the last quarter of the year and made a last-minute appeal to supporters to close some of the gap. $24.6 million in the third quarter, a roughly 31 percent drop. “If the numbers don’t pick up, we run the risk of having to pull back plans to organize for Elizabeth Warren in all 50 states during the primary,” her campaign said in the e-mail. It asked supporters to “please chip in $2 or whatever you can” before midnight Tuesday to reach a goal of $20 million for the fourth quarter. Warren’s third-quarter haul was the biggest of her campaign and second among Democrats only to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ $25.3 million for the July-through-September period. So raising between $17 million and $20 million in the fourth quarter would still appear to be a solid showing, depending on what her primary competitors raised, particularly given her policy of eschewing exclusive events for big donors and other conventional political fund-raising tactics. Adam Green, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a grass-roots political action committee that supports Warren, said a total of $17 million with several days still to go in the quarter was “great.” “Elizabeth Warren is proving that you can run on your values and raise as much or more grassroots money than many other candidates who sell their time t... Link to the full article to read more