rssObama Strategists: We Are Dominating the Field
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 3:15 pm
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Sen. Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but his top aides are running hard today.
Obama’s senior strategists held a national news conference by telephone today, bullishly arguing that the campaign is on offense and surging in red states, while Sen. John McCain is scampering to Pennsylvania for an unlikely “pathway to victory,” as campaign manager David Plouffe put it.
Field guru Jon Carson, ticking through numbers on early voting, contended that Obama is building an early lead with new, first-time voters. In Colorado, he said one of five Democrats voting by mail have never previously voted in a general election, auguring a surge of new support. In Nevada, early-voting data suggest an edge for Democrats, he added, where 40% of Obama’s early-vote support is from new or sporadic voters (who only vote in presidential years), while 30% of the GOP’s early-voting bloc are from new or sporadic voters.
Obama’s edge among new voters is based not only on his appeal, the aides noted, but also his persistent outreach. Counting only live conversations as voter contacts — not voicemails or robocalls — the campaign touted its large footprint in the field:
1.3 million contacts with Florida voters since Labor Day
1.5 million contacts in Ohio since Labor Day
Currently averaging 400,000 contacts a day across the country
On pace to make 1.2 contacts this weekend in battleground states alone
Finally, the strategists emphasized that Obama’s large rallies are the ultimate organizing tool. Citing the two events that drew 175,000 people in Missouri last week, the campaign noted that within one day of those events, the state’s field operation swiftly filled 35% of its volunteer shifts.
During Q&A, Plouffe largely demurred on strategic questions from reporters — including an inquiry about Obama’s “closing argument” from NBC’s Andrea Mitchell — while stressing his operation’s field prowess. (Another reporter asked, seriously, whether the campaign would win Florida.)
Plouffe did pivot from a strategic question to argue that at this juncture, newly converted Obama supporters may be more pivotal than undecideds because new Obama supporters seem “sticky” and look solid for mobilization. If newly identified supporters are soft, by contrast, field operatives worry that they will end up mobilizing people who ultimately back the opponent. (That was part of Howard Dean’s Iowa collapse in 2004.)
“If anything, enthusiasm for Obama is increasing as the election draws near,” he added, because late-breaking voters are embracing the Democratic nominee.
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Comment posted October 24, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
I see you all have not lost your fight :
GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.
Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.
You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.
The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.
See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain's “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!” theatrics.
The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!
You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes now, and on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of “Let Them Eat Cake” Bush McCain, and their republican allies.
Just look at the mess we have now.
You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. And REMEMBER, no matter which of us may stumble or fall, the rest of you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.
It's in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.
God bless all of you.
JACK SMITH – WORKING CLASS… :-)
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 6:37 am
I see by reading Barak Hussien Obama (mentored by Marxist Saul Linsky) and Jack Smith communism is alive and well in America.
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
I see by reading Barak Hussien Obama (mentored by Marxist Saul Linsky) and Jack Smith communism is alive and well in America.
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