Plouffe To Media: We're Feeling Good

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe struck a tone of confidence during a conference call on Friday, saying that the campaign was leading key metrics in early voting and would expand its ad buy into three traditionally red states.

Speaking with reporters, Plouffe said that the campaign would be going back on the air in Georgia and North Dakota -- two states with close polls that have long leaned Republican. Obama is also, somewhat shockingly, going up on the air in Arizona, John McCain's home state.

"If someone else had been the Republican nominee, I think Arizona would be a core battleground," he said. "There have been quiet a few public polls, all of them showing it pretty close. Our internal data shows this could be a close race... we are just going to give it a go in the last three days and see how close we can get it."

In addition to laying out the closing day ad strategy -- which he insisted would not draw resources away from other states -- Plouffe talked about some of the early voting numbers that he said showed a strong position for the Democratic nominee. In Florida, he said, Democrats had a 200,000 vote edge over Republicans in terms of early voting. In Nevada, "43 percent of the Democrats voting early are either new or sporadic Democrats." In North Carolina, "19 percent of Democrats who voted early are Democrats who never voted in a general election before." And in Iowa, he added, "there was only one day where more Republican votes were cast" than Democratic.

"We are out of the land of theory in these states," said Plouffe. "You are starting to see how the election is going to unfold based off of the early voting."

How well were things proceeding? One of Plouffe's chief concerns was that the campaign had exhausted a fair portion of its get out the vote apparatus and might have to expand beyond traditional measures.

"Heading into an election day where a good portion of the GOTV universe has already voted," he said. "A lot of people are going to have to drive and knock, rather than walk around and knock on doors."

Comments

[mistlesuede]

I would feel better if more campaigning was being done in PA by the Obama campaign. I don't understand the lack of attention it's getting in these last few days?

[ladydriver]

I'm in southwestern PA, and we've been working hard here. Where are you? If something isn't being done in your area, get on the www.barackobama.com website and get busy! Don't wait for someone else to do it...this is the Yes WE Can campaign! WE! That's you and me! It's not too late to help make a difference, mistlesuede.

[nabrum]

mistlesuede: "I would feel better if more campaigning was being done in PA by the Obama campaign."

ladydriver: "I'm in southwestern PA, and we've been working hard here. Where are you?"

EXCELLENT response.

mistlesuede - Get out and help instead of just complaining. You might just enjoy it. I don't live in PA, but am active in my state.

Yes WE can!

[Leon72]

Obama needs to use aunt non-story to advantage. He needs to emphasize how sleazy Bush administration is for illegally leaking information to help McCain. This should reinforce the connection they have

[honestpolitician]

LISTEN ALL: Please Go Vote! There has been confirmed reports of voter disenfranchisement and election fraud with the Republican Party and it's supporters. Obama is need of all the votes necessary to create a landslide. Let's make sure that our state turns blue! Bring your friends and family - make it a group thing! Wouldn't you want to say 1 year from now, 5 years from now, or even 20 years from now that you contributed to the most highlighted election in US history? Wouldn't you be proud to tell your kids/grandkids years from now that you voted for this election? It will be the most talked about election for centuries. Voting is a right and a privilege. Let's all make history together!

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[honestpolitician]

"In one week, we can choose hope over fear, unity over division, the promise of change over the power of the status quo. In one week, we can come together as one nation, and one people, and once more choose our better history. That's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for." - Quote from Barack Obama in his closing argument speech.

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[betthefarm]

David Plouffe, you've done an amazing job!!!!

[johnfv]

THOMAS: Obama's smoking audio
Cal Thomas
Friday, October 31, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)

COMMENTARY:

The October surprise may turn out to be a seven-year-old interview with Barack Obama in which he strongly suggests that the U.S. Constitution is an impediment to his desire to redistribute the nation's wealth. How does Mr. Obama credibly take the oath of office to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" when he thinks it impedes his socialist agenda?

Is socialism too strong a word? Consider one of its definitions from dictionary.com and tell me it is something other than Mr. Obama's economic philosophy: "A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor."

A complete restructuring of society is what Mr. Obama advocated in a 2001 interview on a Chicago public radio station. According to Politico.com, in that interview, Mr. Obama, "reflecting on the Warren Court's successes and failures in helping to usher in civil rights, said, "I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples." He has it backward. The Creator already endowed African-American people with these rights, which is precisely the argument powerfully made by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Any rights that are "vested" in people by other people may be removed by the same or future people. Endowed rights are "unalienable" ...

[liseworks]

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 10/28-30.

ARIZONA - McCain's home State :

McCain (R) 48
Obama (D) 47

Early voters (17 percent of sample)

McCain (R) 42
Obama (D) 54

We may actually win Arizona. And a bonus :

If the 2010 election for U.S. Senate were held today for whom would you vote for if the choices were between Janet Napolitano the Democrat and John McCain the Republican?

McCain (R) 45
Napolitano (D) 53

[Mesaywar]

In order to keep pushing such de-bunked crapola, one must either be incredibly stupid, or believe that everyone else is.

[elbowroom]

And your point is...?

Those rights are indeed inalienable, and inasmuch the US Constitution counting an African-American as 3/5 of a person denies them that God-given right and needed to be corrected LEGALLY.

How can you be so obtuse? It's as if the impetus to the entire Civil Rights movement has escaped you.

[luutzu]

When Time Magazine have the cover of Obama and stating somethng like: the next president of the US? My fiance and I just shook our heads and naaa... though it's cool that he's being considered to have a shot my Time...

Then when he won Ohio in the primary, we thought... wow, he actually won, but still naaa... good on him though, but naaa...

Then New Hampsire kinda confirm our thinking, but Super Tuesday just make it seem all possible... Then when we're hooked into following the race with Clinton, we hope and pray that Obama will win... then when McCain chose Palin, we knew Obama will win, but then tehre's W. Bush...
and with a few days to go, could it really happen?

[songoftherushes]

I think my only fear now is that this won't be the liberating victory we hoped for. I want America to turn a page on its past. I want this not to be a victory for inevitable growing minority demographics. Pardon the expression but I want WHITE AMERICA to have voted for the best candidate, Obama.

Pray to whatever god will listen.......

[XME]

A lot of white people are voting for Obama. If they weren't, he wouldn't stand a chance of winning. And while I hate to say this, some of those that are voting for him normally wouldn't...but things are so bad, that they are being pushed to vote on more than Republican-pushed fears and skin color.

[Bluebloodsbastardson]

Winning this election is just the beginning of a long and brutal culture war for Dems, the Fundies will be very pissed off and aggressive in their Talibanization of the US...We have not won a thing until they are no longer a political force in this country.

[seeker1of2truth]

They are! And, they are volunteering for him. I just got home from a 4-hour stint of doing data-entry at an Obama phone bank site. There were over 30 people there, most doing phone calls to the
battleground states for 'get out the vote' messages and a few like me doing data entry to update
the phone lists. Of that number of people, there were about 5 or 6 African Americans - the rest were white/asian/latino. They were all genders, all ages and we were having fun. At 59-years
old this is the first campaign I've ever volunteered for and the most exciting in my lifetime.

I'd rather vote my hopes than my fears anyday! In fact I did, two weeks ago!

Obama / Biden '08

[Kache]

According to Time Mag polling, Obama will be the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the WHITE vote since Kennedy. Since the 64 Civil Right Act no Dem presidential candidate has received a majority of the white vote. Time polling shows that Obama has 54% of white women and 51% of white men.

[Krikkit]

Obama could with the election with Nevada and Colorado and one of 1. Virginia, or 2. Ohio, or 3. Florida. He doesn't need Arizona or Georgi or North Dakota, but man wouldn't it be sweet if he won one or more of those too? Especially Arizona...

Obama has so many roads to the White House right now that I'll be savoring this election for many years to come. I think of this election as a masterful game of chess and we are now witnessing the final moves toward checkmate. Too bad McCain was playing craps.

Arizona and Georgia and North Dakota are the queen and bishops in this game and by forcing McCain to defend them, Obama is forcing McCain to leave his king wide open. Checkmate in 4.

:)

[seeker1of2truth]

Howard Dean's "50 State Strategy" is working again. Thank goodness, Obama had the sense to
adopt it. As you say, he now has many roads to the White House, but, anything can happen - so volunteer, vote and get your friends and family to vote. It's really up to us!

Obama / Biden '08

[lilsongbird101]

gog5445 you suppose much, but just how much of all you suppose is actual fact? Your problem is"you are addicted to McCain" could be worse, could be cocaine, however you have an addiction and need to be treated. Now don't feel ALL alone in this gog 5445 because your buddy John McCain is also a victim of POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME, you know those POW years really DID take a permanent toll on McCain and understandably so. Also Cindy McCain has addiction problems as well so you are by FAR not alone. Recovery is a long process, however "have hope" it can be done!

[DemoMom]

Obama brings people together - he does not divide them - and he will bring together an outstanding administration. He will surround himself with capable, intelligent people - the very best in their fields. Look at the people who are endorsing him and go figure from that. Do you think the President runs the country by himself? Give yourself the luxury of thinking for a few minutes and stop wallowing in the drivel that McCain/Pal­in/Limbaug­h have been feeding you.

[Whatashame]

Obama is going to lose and he will lose big because young people are not voting.

[kdubbg]

umm, it's not Tuesday yet??

[EdgedInBlue]

I don't know what demographic you are in, but in Missouri, students are turning out in large numbers. I work at a university and last night, several hundred drove 3 hours to see Obama in Columbia. When asked if they are voting, most have already voted by absentee ballot, and most have voted for Obama. Check the news tomorrow night, Obama is scheduled to appear in Springfield, Missouri, at a university...it's my understanding that the event will flood the university and many students are volunteering to assist at the event just to be able to attend. Interestingly enough, Springfield is a Republican bastion, home to the Blunts and Bonds and Ashcrofts. What a way to energize Missouri!

[liseworks]

CNN - Candy Crowley :
Early voting all over the US is overwhelmingly in Obama's favor -

[ndolomar]

OK...taking deep breaths, occasionally looking away from the computer, closing my eyes, praying. This kind of anxiety is worse than when I've waited for the announcement for the winner of a contest. Can this be happening? Is this real? For as much close attention I've paid to this presidential campaign, I'm now so doggone stressed about a McCain victory that I can't even sleep. Three and one-half days -- dear Jake! Sure, like Plouffe, I'm "feeling good," but if the election's outcome depended only on my vote, I'd be feeling much better.

[nabrum]

LOL. You sound like my wife. She's suffering from the same symptoms. And to make matters worse for her, she's a Voting Polling Place Mgr, with 21 Pollers under her, at one of the local voting sites here in WA State. So by closing at 8pm here, it may be over, but she won't know it and that is driving her (and me) nuts.

[UncommonSenz]

"For every one of you, there are 10 taking advantage of the system."

Yes, because welfare is a great life... everybody on it just loves it.

If you studied it, you would know that the reality of welfare recipients is so different from the trumped up bogeymen repubs make it out to be.

The majority of people on welfare bounce on and off it. Getting jobs, losing jobs... using it as a safety net- not a long term solution. The majority are white (although a higher of the african american population is on welfare). And most live in areas with awful schools, high crime rates, high dropout rates, higher unemployment and less opportunities for advancement.

Most importantly- "welfare" is a drop in the budgetary bucket. So, although you pretend that they are bleeding "us" dry- even eliminating the program entirely would barely dent the budget. (And would cause massive costs in higher crime, more ER trips, and a huge boom in homeless families)

It is easy to use them as a punching bag- they are such an easy defenseless target. But my guess is that you don't do ANYTHING to actually help the situation. I walk my walk and I am mentoring a kid in a housing project here in Denver. It is a multi-year commitment, but mentored kids have remarkably higher graduation rates, lower instances of pregnancy and incarceration.

What have YOU actually done (besides bitch about it) gog?

[DemoMom]

Republican who bleat about "welfare queens" conveniently ignore the corporate welfare queens who avoid paying taxes by hiring expensive lawyers and CPAs. Large corporations do not pay their share and you can be sure that corporate fat cats who got us into this economic mess that we're in have stashed away their golden parachutes in some Swiss bank account. I have more respect for the illegal immigrant who works 3 jobs to put food on the table than for some of the uber-rich in this country who wouldn't know a day's hard work if it kicked them in the face. Why do so many middle class people support a party that just makes rich people richer while not helping the rest of us who are just getting by?

[blust8r]

Right on! F them!

[LAThinker]

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[rabprevent]

LA thinker,
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