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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Oct 31, 2008 11:15am |
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| News Date | Friday, October 31, 2008 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Obama campaign manager David Plouffe today on a conference call announced that the campaign of the lanky Illinoisan is advertising in North Dakota, Georgia, and Arizona -- the home state of GOP Sen. John McCain, which he won in 2004 with 77% of the vote.
There are no plans for Obama to travel to any of those states, Plouffe said, but he insisted they are in the “realm of the possible," and added that Arizona would be a battleground state were McCain not the nominee.
A CNN/Time/ORC poll of Arizona voters found McCain leading in the state, 53% to Obama's 46%.
"We did a lot of work in Georgia and we still have quite a bit of staff on the ground," Plouffe said. "So we obviously stopped advertising there for a period of time but you know early vote is going extremely well in Georgia. And one of the reasons is the organization on the ground that’s still there – as so we look at Georgia you know, if we win it, we win it narrowly. But if you look at the early vote, and again, we’re kind of out of the land of theory here in a lot of these states – we’re beginning to see how this election is likely to unfold based on the early voting patterns."
Plouffe said the organizing never stopped in Georgia, "and obviously the African American turnout, the turnout among younger voters is quite high and there’s still a big pool left so we just wanted the last few days that reminder on the air. Now they’ve obviously been getting our national advertising in all these states, but we’re going to complement it with some local adverting to see if we can get as close as we can. The same thing goes for North Dakota and Arizona...Obviously we’ve got a big map and the most challenging part about it is travel.”
Obama today started the day in Missouri, just flew to Iowa, will tonight hold a rally in Indiana, and end the day in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
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