Obama team upbeat in Va.

Waynesboro News Virginian ^ | September 13, 2008 | Olympia Meola

[NewMediaFan]

RICHMOND — Despite a recent poll showing Sen. John McCain taking 50 percent of the vote in Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign manager says the historically red state still is “enormously competitive.”

Virginia and North Carolina remain central to the Illinois senator’s strategy to secure 270 electoral votes and win the presidential election, David Plouffe told reporters in those states on a conference call Friday. “We’re very confident in our strategy and in our message, and we are focused like a laser beam on states like North Carolina and Virginia,” he said. Plouffe added that Virginia’s viewers will see two new television ads — one talking about change and another calling McCain “out of touch” for, among other things, not knowing how to send e-mail.

President Bush carried Virginia in 2004 with 54 percent of the vote to 46 percent for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee. Plouffe said he believes Obama can garner more support in Virginia than other Democratic presidential candidates in the recent past. The campaign believes it can do well in Northern Virginia and is showing “surprising strength” in the Tidewater area, Plouffe said. “We want to do as well as we can in the Southwestern part of the state — very, very important,” he said. Obama has campaigned in Southside and Southwest Virginia three times during his general-election campaign, including his trip Tuesday to Lebanon in Russell County.

Virginia has not backed a Democratic nominee for president in 44 years.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sounds like the money is drying up. Trying hard to “keep hope alive”.

[Cobra64]

"We are beating the Americans back. They will never get to Baghdad..."

[Cobra64]

50 state strategy, they need to keep pouring money into Alaska too.

Yes, but since Marxist Terrorist Hussein Obama has seven extra (terrorist) states, he's sure to win.

[BerniesFriend]

plouffe needs to concentrate on states #51-#57 to have any chance of winning..

[JohnnyZ]

“We’re very confident in our strategy and in our message, and we are focused like a laser beam on states like North Carolina and Virginia,”

Mentioning North Carolina in the same breath undermines his case. Increased black turnout will narrow things up a bit, but it'll still be a comfortable McCain-Palin win in NC.

[Stepan12]

Whistling past the grave yard???

Voting from the graveyard with the help of Acorn.

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[Question Liberal Authority]

Virginia and North Carolina remain central to the Illinois senator’s strategy

Brilliant move picking Joe Biden over Tim Kaine, Barry.

[linn37]

that made me giggle

[Enchante]

“There are no American imperialist tanks anywhere near Baghdad, and if there were any we have already annihilated them all in the Mother of All Battles!”

“Oh, and our beloved Democrats WILL win Virginia and every other one of the 57 imperialist states for our favorite, Obama!”

— Baghdad Bob —

[kcvl]

David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager

NEW FUNDRAISING PRESSURES EMERGING FOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN

a new sense of urgency in Sen. Barack Obama’s fundraising team is palpable as the full weight of the campaign’s decision to bypass public financing for the general election is suddenly upon them.

Pushing a fundraiser later this month, a finance staff member sent a sharply worded note last week to Illinois members of Obama’s national finance committee, calling their recent efforts “extremely anemic.”

[modest proposal]

ah so that is one of the fools responsible for Obama’s senseless cmapaign.

A bag of caffeinated weasels could come up with smarter more coy approaches.

[Chunga]

“We’re very confident in our strategy and in our message, and we are focused like a laser beam on states like North Carolina and Virginia”

These people are ignoramuses. They're so dumbfounded by McCain/Palin they're resorting to 1960s-era cliches.

[kcvl]

“Today is the first day of the rest of the campaign,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says in a campaign strategy memo. “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people.”

Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate in ad

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Barack Obama lowers expectations as John McCain’s popularity surges

Palin moving crowds and poll numbers

Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women

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Plouffe: Obama campaign shifting Georgia resources to North Carolina

Plouffe Your Pillow? Nets Go Easy On Obama Campaign Manager

http://tinyurl.com/59zce7

[kcvl]

Racism can’t hide in booth

Tampabay.com, FL - 3 hours ago
Obama,’’ said David Plouffe, Obama’s national campaign manager.

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Under-pressure Obama to ‘take the fight’ to McCain

Sunday Business Post, Ireland - 6 hours ago
Last Friday, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent a memo to reporters accusing McCain of being ‘‘willing to go into the gutter to win this election’’.

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Biden prepares for more prominent role in campaign

The Associated Press - 8 hours ago
In a memo Friday, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe outlined a more aggressive campaign against McCain. “Biden will be integral to that effort,

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Obama fighting a stomach bug

after a week of trying to break through the Sarah Palin media frenzy, Obama was supposed to hold a big rally with his running mate Joe Biden in Manchester, NH, and then make an appearance on Saturday Night Live. But now, because of Ike, Obama is skipping SNL, and Biden is skipping Manchester.

Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki explained, “In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Senator Obama has decided it is no longer appropriate to appear on Saturday Night Live tomorrow evening.”

here is at least the hint from Obama aides that he pulled some punches because of the storm (as well as the fact that the Illinois Senator is fighting a stomach bug).

http://tinyurl.com/6lz73a

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Obama: I’ll ‘respond with the truth’

Chicago Tribune, United States - 22 hours ago
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe signaled the approach with a memo to reporters, promising to “respond with speed and ferocity” to McCain.

[kcvl]

Clash over ‘change’ heats up

Boston Globe, United States - 22 hours ago
Obama’s campaign yesterday reinforced its message of change through several channels - in a scathing memo to reporters from campaign manager David Plouffe

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Obama goes negative in ads

Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - 23 hours ago
“We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe says in a campaign strategy memo.

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Tant: No higher calling than organizing a community

Online Athens, GA - Sep 12, 2008
Although the Republicans aimed snarky and sneering sarcasm at community activists, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe was quite correct when he said

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Barack Obama’s adviser assures Democrats, ‘we have a plan’

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Sep 12, 2008
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, has responded to Democrats nervous about the Republicans’ narrow lead in the polls, describing them

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Obama bloodied by Team McCain in electoral cage fight

guardian.co.uk, UK - Sep 12, 2008
In Denver, I attended a meeting between journalists and Obama campaign manager David Plouffe arranged by Time magazine. Plouffe laid out the theory: the

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Obama backs off 50-state strategy against McCain

Washington Times, DC - Sep 12, 2008
In a briefing for reporters Monday, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said they expected to hold all of the states won by Mr. Kerry in 2004

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Sarah Palin is Barack Obama’s first ‘real’ Republican foe

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Sep 12, 2008
In his latest mem to “Interested Parties”, campaign manager David Plouffe pledges: “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we

[Mad Dawgg]

"Despite a recent poll showing Sen. John McCain taking 50 percent of the vote in Virginia, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign manager says the historically red state still is “enormously competitive.”'

Translation: We didn't plan on fighting for this state and we are diverting funds here to try and keep it.

[Paleo Conservative]

What's he been snorting? It's more like:

Obama team beat up in Va.

[word_warrior_bob]

sounds a bit delusional at this point.

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I’m almost at the point that I don’t care if we lose. Since we nominated Palin, I have been LMAO on a daily basis. It only gets better every day, this election has turned into SATIRE.

[ansel12]

“Plouffe added that Virginia’s viewers will see two new television ads — one talking about change and another calling McCain “out of touch” for, among other things, not knowing how to send e-mail. “

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The ad doesn’t say that McCain doesn’t “know” how to send an e-mail, it says that he “can’t”.