Obama Campaign Manager: No "Bounce" Expected From Overseas Trip

Campaign manager David Plouffe says the smooth foreign swing by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will help win votes in the long run but won't produce an immediate surge in polls.

"We wouldn't expect any sort of, I guess the term people use is 'bounce,'" Plouffe said by phone from campaign headquarters in Chicago.

The manager, noting that he pays less attention to national polls than polls in key states, said his campaign views the general-election as "five months in totality."

"We view everything as kind of a package - there's not going to be any one thing that is decisive," he said. "It was an important week, but it was just one week in this campaign. Come November 4th, this week will be important to voters, but every week will be."

Nevertheless, Plouffe may be pleasantly surprised. A Gallup daily tracking poll releasd Saturday found that Obama had stretched his lead over McCain among national registered voters to seven points -- 48 percent to 41 percent -- tying his widest previous lead, notched in early June.

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Comments

[flydoghead]

The MSM is trying to make a race out of this when it fact poor Johnny McCrashTest has fallen down and can't get up.

The media requires viewers and rather than provide meaningful disscussion of real issues they try and
create conflict and contest.

This is the WWF of campaigns, seceret, the GOOD GUY WINS !!!

[ericmiami]

McCain will make a comeback when he names the Dalai Lama as his vice-president. He told him during their meeting that he's always loved his paintings of the melting clocks.

[whatsthatsound]

Call it the Alzheimer's/Persistence of Memory Ticket.

[eniobob]

I am convinced that the MSM is manipulating this campaign as many of you are.With all the gaffes that JohnnyMac is making and all the hiding of those gaffes by the MSM,I can't believe this thing is as close as they say.
JohnnyMac has said nothing of substance even before Barack went on this trip,and he has not said anything or done anything to change that perspective.

[barackobama4prez]

The media is lying to us to help johnboy.

[recruitgal]

This election is going to won or lost on the ground, not via the MSM. It's in their interests to make the race look as close as possible.

[Egalitare]

I agree with you. There will be an enthusiasm gap with the GOP this Fall, and we can only take advantage of it if we continue to ID voters and get our supporters to the polls on Election Day. No single thing, no "magic bullet" is going to convince a tidal wave of likely voters to select Obama. But as Obama continues to show that he has the judgement and temperment to be President, that will slowly break down the resistance of a small but significant number of people who currently think they're "supposed to prefer" McCain.

[whatsthatsound]

The significance of this "week that was" is what it implies, and bodes for the future. One gets the idea that O can have a LOT of weeks like this; he doesn't have to take any overseas trips to do so. He's looking smooth, in control, etc. Alternately, Johnny Mack can have a lot more of HIS type of week, on the defensive, griping, sniping.....

The tone for the next three months has been set. The McCain camp must grok this, and is desperately squirming around trying to find a way to turn things around and get back on offense. But they've got two big obstacles standing in their way. One is named Barack Obama and the other is named John McCain.

[kadene]

If you know how to win wars and you know how to nab Bin Laden, what the h ell do you need the Internet for?

[Freakpower]

Come on gang, "let's elect a president who doesn't know how to get on the Internet!"
Smells like 1957 all over again!

Reach for the stars.....

[noamjunior]

Polls only count those gullible enough to answer unsolicited phone calls on their land lines, the most gullible of Americans and Mccains base

[recruitgal]

You're right. Most of my friends don't have landlines any more, and the ones that do have got caller ID and wouldn't dream of picking up a call they didn't recognise.... Who are these mysterious people who respond to polls...?

[doofmann02]

Bored and lonely people, or seniors who don't understand or have Caller ID. I think some of them just like to mess with pollsters, too.

[flydoghead]

Actually the only ones left with landlines are the ones who would be
inclined to vote for McCrashTest.

Even so, he is floudering.

[nellie]

Please stop using the word "surge" in these reports.

I don't believe Plouffe on this one. By all rights O should get a bump from this trip. Maybe not right away, but his junket was an unqualified success, and should address several concerns of people who aren't sure about him. I'm sure the campaign expect an uptick in the polling.

[RustyGranite]

You spoke too soon, Plouffe.

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Gallup Daily :
July 17th = 45%-44% Obama
July 26th = 48%-41% Obama
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Rasmussen Daily :
July 17th = 46%-46% Tie
July 26th = 49%-41% Obama
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[xargaw]

I hope he gets a big bounce. It is too early to know. Wait until the end of next week's polls come out. How could Americans not be proud of his Presidential, thoughtful, knowledgeable, articulate, well bred performance? Every leader he met seemed very impressed. As Jon Stewart noted; It was nice to see foreigners waving American flags that were not on fire.

[mairs]

It certainly is nice to turn from McCumbersome's campaign people and listen to some even-handed adults for a change.

[andyg]

even if he uses a telepromter.

[nomobull]

since they all do what's your point.

[Sabreen60]

Yeah, and he's so d@mn good at it. Have you ever watched McReadingisfundamental try to read one??? Hilarious !

[Mdazes]

I am tried of this word BOUNCE. Obama is not going to get a Bounce, Obama is not going to get those undecided voters period. Hell 25% to 30% of voters admitted during the Primary that that are not going to vote for him just because he is black. (And equally white.) I did not agree with a lot of the things that Rev Wright said but the man did speak some truth about America.

[Sabreen60]

Prophet???

[chronic]

So many people in America willfully remain ignorant.


The world weeps at the thought of a McCain Presidency.

[recruitgal]

And 41% of America apparently doesn't give a damn.

[TN]

Wrong - it bounced me seeing 200,000 people across the world appreciating him and what he stands for. If it bounced me it bounced others also.

[Liberal2]

Wrong...get it through your head, those 200K people weren't there to see Obama, they were there to cheer for anyone who will replace Bush. They have no idea what Obama stands for, he's simply the non-Bush to them. McCain, they know, is the third Bush.

[nomobull]

just keep telling yourself that.

[Sabreen60]

Yeah ok. Just like the 80,000 who came to see him in Portland would have turned out to see Mckillthemwithcigarettes.

[closetodemfection]

Exactly. They would have cheered any Dem.

[colah]

Really? True they hate Bush, but you are letting some color bleed thru, me thinks.
200k would have also shown up for Edwards? Hillary? Knowing the motivation for 200,000 people you probably have never met must be very empowering!

[Daisy1111]

I hate to break it to you -- but Berlin Press estimated 20K not 200K.

Think of it -- that narrow mall is only one mile long -- do you really think you can fit nearly a quarter million people in that one mile stretch?

But of course the inflated number is re-quoted.

[recruitgal]

I live in Europe, and the Berlin Police were quoting more than 200k. Sorry...

[scouserinlondon]

Think there is more than one mall leading to the monument..... think there are 5 leading up to it........
2 out of 10 for effort(typing)
Accuracy... need to stay behind after school.

[Seattlelite]

After I saw that crowd in Berlin "bounced" me right over to O's website where I made my second donation for the month.

[Ged2012]

He would certainly get a bounce. Americans want the USA to be beloved throughout the world, and that's what Obama represents. One of the main reasons why Bush's foreign policies are laughed at is that no world leader takes him seriously unless he aims to bomb their countries.