Obama Campaign to Supporters: Don’t Panic Over Early Exit Polls

Politicker ^ | 11/05/2012 | Colin Campbell

[nhwingut]

In a conference call this afternoon, President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign had one central message for their supporters when Election Day arrives tomorrow: They should “keep calm,” even if they hear snippets of information favoring Republican Mitt Romney.

“My warning, we need to stay calm for much of the day,” Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager, said, touting thousands of early ballots already submitted by voters. “We’ve already banked a pretty big portion of our vote.”

The fear, she explained, was early numbers leaking before voters have finished going to the polls, creating unnecessary panic and pessimism among Democrats.

[johncocktoasten]

I agree it’s a bizarre remark. And I guarantee you it didn’t come from the brain of Stephanie Cutter, since there is a proponderance of evidence she doesn’t have one. So we will assume Axelrod as source.

I don’t know if he is insinuating early votes or machine rigging.

[FightforFreedomCA]

err...very weird. This smells of “we’ll make up any differences as we see them”. I’m not as paranoid about fraud as some, but the unspoken message in this bugs me.

[austinaero]

Well the Dem campaign has given their obligatory “stay calm” spiel, which they don’t mean for a second.

I say they should start panicking right now!

[Sarah Barracuda]

LOL what they are basically saying is “Dont worry supporters, we will get as many illegal aliens to come and vote for Obama tomorrow..its just going to take some time to bus them in”

[txhurl]

I saw on an unusual show, maybe on Bravo or something about Presidents where W was discussing how with the early false Kerry exit polling, W thought he *lost* too in ‘04.

He even started calling family to appraise them of possibly packing.

[tomkat]

             

[apillar]

Translation:

Lay off the looting and burning until you find out for sure that Obama has lost...

[freedumb2003]

[nhwingut]

If you take this statement with Romney releasing his internals. This is very intriguing.

Romney shows his cards. Obama says don’t panic.

Hmm.

[Pollster1]

"Don’t Panic Over Early Exit Polls" because the exit polling organizations are not surveying the dead, the fictional, and the mass produced ballots that hackers are going to introduce into the system. Obama's people are counting the ballots, and this will not be an exercise in democracy if Obama's people have a say in the outcome.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Pay no attention to the Marxist behind the curtain.....

[Obadiah]

"All is well! All is well! There is no tsunami coming. There is no tsunami coming!"

[COUNTrecount]

The fear, she explained, was early numbers leaking before voters have finished going to the polls, creating unnecessary panic and pessimism among Democrats.

I wonder what Jarrett will be telling Hussein tomorrow.

[Uncle Miltie]

[tomkat]

.. Now don't put beans in your nose while I'm gone

Ok, who told ? !              

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ms Cutter said on today's Chris Mattnews show they NEED women to show up. She seemed to be pleading...

[FredZarguna]

This information is more interesting to me than the so-called "leak" to the UK Telegraph that Romney's internals say he's "up by 1 in Ohio." My take is that's pure psyops, especially considering the paper to which it was leaked.

Now this on the other hand, is a message to people in WI and possibly NV doing poll listing and poll running and working phone banks as part of the GOTV. They are warning them that news from the East is not going to be good, but they need them to believe it'll eventually come back their way so that they keep working cars and phones. And of course they're worried about the effect of a collapsing GOTV effort on down-ticket races.

I think this is the best news of the day.

[MomwithHope]

Translation - Obama is worried as eastern states project Romney the winner, California dems will not bother to go to the polls. That is actually a scenario where Romney could win California.

[nhwingut]

I wonder what Jarrett will be telling Hussein tomorrow.

I bet they already told him. Have you seen him lately? "Revenge!" Even in his recent ads he looks tired and beat down.

[TheBigB]

Someone just blinked.

Agree