It is estimated that more black people, not fewer, voted in 2012 than 2008. More Latinos voted, not fewer, and an even greater percentage of them supported Obama this time. The youth vote did not decline from 2008. All this despite flagging enthusiasm for the president. Here’s a telling anecdote related by a senior Obama aide to the press pool on Wednesday’s flight from Chicago back to Washington. During flight, a campaign official talked about the ground game on background . . . In describing the ground game, the official told of a conversation he had with a top field director on Monday. The GOP had tweeted that they had knocked on 75,000 doors in Ohio the day prior. Not to worry, the director said, “we knocked on 376,000.” Then the president came in, and this aide said, “Tell him the door thing.” So he did. And the president responded, “That’s my team.” That was not Romney’s team. Romney’s team was back in Boston Tuesday night, watching in awe:
OFA had a presence in Ohio since 2007. They didn’t go away after the 2008 election, they built up. That is where all that money went.