Obama Mulls Competing for Arizona

[babylonsister]

Can you imagine?!

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/09/26/obama_mulls_competing_for_arizona.html

Obama Mulls Competing for Arizona


President Obama's campaign is considering competing in Arizona, the AP reports.

"Obama looked at competing in Arizona in 2008, but decided against it because of the support there for home state Sen. John McCain, the GOP nominee. Obama still won 45 percent of the vote."

"This year, Obama's team talked early on about running in Arizona, which offers 11 electoral votes, but it never did. Now, with an internal Democratic poll showing Obama narrowly leading Romney, Obama's team might make a play for the state that has seen a 160,000 increase in voter registrations by Democratic-leaning Hispanics over the past four years."

[quaker bill]

1. This would be his endzone dance

and from what I have seen, he likes endzone dances.

[alsame]

2. And which head would

explode first - Jan Brewer's or Joe Arpaio's?

[phantom power]

3. I can imagine. I think they could make it a contest.

If I were them, I wouldn't go for it unless they felt like they had money/effort to burn, but...

[Mr.Turnip]

4. I do not think we'll be winning Arizona this year.

However If I were team Obama I would compete for A. Romney to spend resources there and B. there is currently a very close senate race in Arizona, and Obama could push the numbers toward us there a bit.

[DesertRat]

6. Yes! Carmona (D) is neck and neck with Flake (R) for Kyl's seat.

Flake has more name recognition here and his family are prominent in the Mormon church =$$$. I would love to see more resources put into Carmona's campaign.

[awake]

5. If nothing else

it will force Nit Whit Mitt to wast energy to defend it. It will not take much time or money for Obama to open a flanking attack in Arizona just enough to get their attention and force a response.

[babylonsister]

8. Yes! I like your thinking! nt

[Ebadlun]

7. Yes, if only to chase the Senate race

Romney's dead, the SuperPAC money is racing down ticket, so Obama needs to head it off. He can now afford to deploy himself and Clinton to influence Senate races.

Also, campaigning in Arizona is taking the piss - it sends out a signal that he's winning and he knows he's winning. Can you imagine Romney campaigning in Oregon?

[Ebadlun]

9. What's the state of house races in AZ?

Are there any that could be tipped with a bit of DNC TLC?