I suppose Axelrod didn’t think this would get out since he was talking to the foreign press.
I think so as well, but AGI obviously couldn't wait to run with it.
The whole article:
OBAMA’S STRATEGIST, ‘’I FEAR MCCAIN COMEBACK’’
(AGI) - Rome, 28 Oct - ‘’Our nightmare is that in the end the huge consensus that Obama has gained will not transform into votes’’. In an interview with DNews a few days before the US presidential elections, David Axelrod, strategist in Barack Obama’s campaign said he feared a comeback by Republican McCain. ‘ In these last few days McCain’s disadvantage will decrease. It is the nature of presidential campaigns: it always happens that in the final rush that the gap diminishes. The worst thing we could do at this point is to think we have already won. And we are not. On the contrary, we are trying to produce a massive final effort’’. Obama’s advisor explained the strategy: ‘’Naturally we will go to the States with the biggest margins of undecideds: Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri.
We have to assure ourselves that all our supporters will vote.
This will be a highly competitive competition right to the end.
We need our people to go to work, to get friends and family to ensure everyone votes. We must put across the idea that the stakes are very high, that these are the absolutely decisive days’’.