Plouffe Sanguine About Obama's Prospects
27 Aug 2008 10:42 am
Barack McCain's margin among independent swing-voting women and sporadically voting Democrats are two of the main metrics his campaign are closely monitoring, Obama's election manager, David Plouffe, said today.
Plouffe, speaking to reporters, editors and executives of the Atlantic Media company in a throwback conference room in downtown Denver, said that Obama's internal polling suggests that McCain runs a double-digit deficit with this group runs into the double digits in some swing states. "And that's before they know about his position on choice and that he's against equal pay," Plouffe said.
Voters, he said, were treated to an "a ha!" moment last week when McCain couldn't recall the number of houses he owned and suggested that earning $5 million a year would not make a person rich.
"The development on the out of touch argument is an actually critical development of the campaign," he said, because "
ome of the voters images of McCain don't jibe with reality."
He acknowledged that the campaign still had work to do in order to fill in some details about Barack Obama. "We have to be very careful how we approach the swing electorate because they don't have the information about Barack Obama."
We tried to get Plouffe to react to a spate of national polls showing a tightening race.
"All we care about is these 18 states," he said. He repeated, with emphasis, that the campaign does not care about national polling. Instead, the campaign's own identification, registration and canvassing efforts provide the data he uses to determine where to invest money and resources.
Other nuggets from Plouffe:
** If McCain doesn't win Colorado, "he has a 5% chance to win the election."
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