Posted on 09/13/2008 9:03:33 PM PDT by 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.
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At 7:45 p.m. on Election Day in 2004, John Kerry was "leading" in the Virginia exit polls.
I'm just sayin'...
They have a lot of faith in Northern Virginia.
Upbeat huh? We got three phone calls from DNC volunteers over the weekend and you could really hear the disappointment in their voices when we told them we were voting McCain/Palin.
WTF did the newspaper article expect Obama’s team to say? “Are you kidding?! VA was always a pipe dream! It’s a lost cause! Oh, yeah, and we’re getting our butts kicked all over the nation!”
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