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For those of you following the 2012 money race, tomorrow is an important day: It marks the end of the third quarter of this year's fundraising cycle.

In a last-ditch effort to boost their numbers, candidates across the state are flooding voter e-mail inboxes with last minute appeals for donations. The politicos aren't asking for much - Tarryl Clark wants as little as $3 to meet her goal of $10,000 - but the payoff can be substantial if enough voters contribute.

Here's a sampling of the missives we've collected this morning.

 who's looking to challenge 8th  District Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack, has released a new two-minute video highlighting her Minnesota roots and her record. Watch it 

It makes sense that Clark is focusing on her Minnesotan heritage because she's a relative unknown in the 8th; she moved there earlier this year after running unsuccessfully against Rep. Michele Bachmann in the 6th last year.

 is sending out at least two versions of a fundraising e-mail.

The first frames donations as one of the annoying necessities of the election cycle.

The second makes a veiled attack on Lynne Torgerson, a challenger to Ellison who calls him a "radical Islamist" on her website.

 criticizes the Obama administration's links to 

, a solar panel manufacturer that got loans resulting from the 2009 stimulus bill before going bankrupt. Now, Obama wants to pass another jobs bill, which Paulsen opposes.

 been pressing voters to donate to her presidential campaign. One of her latest e-mails came from her husband, Marcus, who wrote:

That "legal limit" Bachmann mentions is $2,500 per person or $5,000 per couple.

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