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DEL.ICIO.USPlouffe: Obama campaign shifting Georgia resources to North Carolina
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
David Plouffe, campaign manager for Barack Obama, held a session on Monday with reporters traveling with the Democratic presidential nominee.
The commitment to Georgia, which the Obama campaign has insisted was a battleground state, was one of several topics discussed. The Obama campaign in Georgia released a transcript of the meeting this morning.
Just like the banking industry, Obama troops in Georgia are drifting toward the more friendly territory of North Carolina. Here’s the relevant portion:
Plouffe: We are serious about all of the states we’re in. We are, we are currently not [inaudible] Georgia, that’s correct. But we [inaudible] for over two months. It helped us register, I believe, over 150,000 voters. We are, we’ve got a terrific ground game there…
Questioner No. 1: Are you pulling people out?
Plouffe: We are leaving all of our leadership there, and we’re, in fact just this past weekend, last weekend we registered somewhere over 15 or 20,000 people.
Questioner No. 1: But you’re closing down some of the offices, the field offices…
Plouffe: Not the offices, no.
Questioner No. 2: So what are you, you doing nothing in Georgia?
Plouffe: We’re just not on the air right now.
Questioner No. 2: You’re not on the air?
Plouffe: We’re not on the air.
Questioner No. 1: The people that were there are staying there.
Questioner No. 2: So you said you were leaving leadership…..
Plouffe: We are moving some staff into like North Carolina. But we’re keeping most everybody in Georgia. We are, you know — Montana, the red states that are most often [inaudible] — Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, full speed ahead in all three of them.
Now North Carolina is a state that the Republicans [inaudible], and now they’re on the air there with television ads. So they clearly see the threat. North Carolina is a very real situation, as is Indiana, as is Montana. So we are, we as in terms of the balance, we’re just playing a lot more offense then he is right now.
And that’s important from a ratio perspective. And you heard a lot in the beginning of the year about their desires on places like New Jersey and even California, Washington state, Oregon, and they’re not on the air in any of those states. Nor are we, because right now they’re not in a state of high competitiveness.
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By Myth!
September 9, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this
Not trying to sound too much like Bill Clinton. But this whole thing really has been a fairytale! First they will “move staff” from GA to NC, MT, etc, etc. Then they will move them from there to OH, Penn, Minn, etc. The typical “battleground” states. Why? Because when all the dust settles….Obama is just another Democrat and this is just another presidential campaign….as any other. It will have the SAME battle ground states that will be won or lost by the SAME margins as the last 4-5 presidential elections. They know they are wasting their time in GA just as McCain would be wasting his time in CA or Mass. The shine has worn off and folks have realized that “oh, it really is just a penny after all”….watch, they will end up spending 90% of their resources in typical battleground states….because, Obama is really nothing special!
By Just keep believing that
September 9, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this
You’re right. The Republicans have Georgia locked! Its not a tight race at all.
Why even bother showing up to the polls even?
By Thaddeus
September 9, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this
please will someone learn from AD agencies !!!My brother was a Senior VP of Creative for years. He wrote short ads to target millions of consumers & he won all kinds of Cleo’s. He lived by this statement “Brevity is the Sign of Wit” Keep it quick and hit them between the eyes. Your canadiate, my choice for President has NOT done that. It is up to the people he hires to accomplish what the American people understand, Bull’s Eye. They like to laught like “Drill Baby Drill” and McCaiin and cohorts Bush against Gore are masters of the WHIP. PLEASE DO THIS FOR BARACH O’BAMA OR ELSE IT MIGHT GET WORSE, A MAVERICK COULD TAKE US INTO ANOTHER STRATOSPHERE OF DISASTEROUS CHOICES. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SIT BACK AFTER A HARD DAYS WORK AND THEY ARE TIRED WAKE THEM UP BABY, WAKE THEM UP LIKE INSTEAD OF MCCAINS ’ STRAIGNT TALK EXPRESS, YOU RETALIATE WITH ‘DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS” Now that might catch lots of peoples attention !!!I donatednplease don’t make it an empty investment of time, money and dashed hopes. Get going use the WHIP
By Thaddeus
September 9, 2008 8:02 PM | Link to this
please will someone learn from AD agencies !!!My brother was a Senior VP of Creative for years. He wrote short ads to target millions of consumers & he won all kinds of Cleo’s. He lived by this statement “Brevity is the Sign of Wit” Keep it quick and hit them between the eyes. Your canadiate, my choice for President has NOT done that. It is up to the people he hires to accomplish what the American people understand, Bull’s Eye. They like to laught like “Drill Baby Drill” and McCaiin and cohorts Bush against Gore are masters of the WHIP. PLEASE DO THIS FOR BARACH O’BAMA OR ELSE IT MIGHT GET WORSE, A MAVERICK COULD TAKE US INTO ANOTHER STRATOSPHERE OF DISASTEROUS CHOICES. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SIT BACK AFTER A HARD DAYS WORK AND THEY ARE TIRED WAKE THEM UP BABY, WAKE THEM UP LIKE INSTEAD OF MCCAINS ’ STRAIGNT TALK EXPRESS, YOU RETALIATE WITH ‘DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS” Now that might catch lots of peoples attention !!!I donatednplease don’t make it an empty investment of time, money and dashed hopes. Get going use the WHIP
By rachel
September 9, 2008 9:25 PM | Link to this
Sometimes it good for the enemy to think that you simply can’t win a state. Obama has been in Georgia for a very long time. Don’t be surprised if you’re surprised. McCain has no ground game anywhere….
By rachel
September 9, 2008 9:29 PM | Link to this
Sometimes it good for the enemy to think that you simply can’t win a state. Obama has been in Georgia for a very long time. Don’t be surprised if you’re surprised. McCain has no ground game anywhere….
By WannaBet?
September 9, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this
Rachel, I’ll tell you what. If Obama wins GA I will post my real name, cell phone number and email address on this blog for every giddy liberal in Atlanta to call and razz me all day. Will you do the same if Obama does not win GA? Interested to see just how much confidence you have in his “ground game”…..
By Charlie Daniels
September 9, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this
I’ll take your bet
By Boss Marston
September 9, 2008 11:32 PM | Link to this
Plouffe is about as articulate as The 0ne when speaking off the cuff. And about as long-winded as Thaddeus.
By WannaBet?
September 10, 2008 12:14 AM | Link to this
Great! You have my word I’ll live up to my end on the AM of Nov. 5th…I hope you’ll do the same if Obama loses! Any other “Obama Can win Georgia” folks want in on this? P.S. - Don’t feel like you have to wait till morning to post your info. I’m sure they’ll call GA for McCain by 10:00pm on the 4th. Maybe that way your post will be buried by morning and you won’t get TOO many calls. I’m trying to look out for you because I like your name!
By Michael
September 10, 2008 12:35 AM | Link to this
I’ve been around politics and campaigns for a long time. When internal polling shows your candidate has no chance of victory you move your resources to where they’ll do the most good. Obama never expected to be forced into an expensive battle with the Republican VP Sarah Palin. Like most campaigns he probably planned for a token opposition research team for the VP pick. Now he’s being forced to spend millions on the teams of private investigators and operatives that are now roaming Alaska, and believe me, these guys aren’t cheap. If they gas up in Juno,$500.00, if they eat a steak in Anchorage $500.00, if they talk to an old lady in Wasilla, $5000. It gets real expensive , real quick, with opposition researchers. Obama would never have spent so much on the Convention if he’d realized Sarah Palin was around the corner. She’s forcing him to spend lots of money where it does him the least good.
By Kara
September 10, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
Is anyone fooled by this doubletalk? Their numbers are tanking in North Carolina too. And the Dem ticket is going down with them. No more fairytale, this is a nightmare, live and in person?
By Howard
September 21, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
OBAMA = BETRAYAL Obama supporters are foolish to think that he will never betray them. Obama was a close friend of Pastor Wright for TWENTY YEARS. Obama threw Wright under the bus for personal ambition. McCain would not betray his country even after 5 years of torture. You can put lipstick on a traitor, but he’s still a traitor.
By Will Jones
September 21, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this
By his own admission McCain, who never had a desire to go to the Naval Academy but went because it was expected and required of him by his father, never loved America until he was cooperating with his captors so he could receive medical treatment in Vietnam.
Was killing 143 by hot-dogging on the deck of the Forrestal not a something of a betrayal?
You of course know he betrayed the faithful wife of his child who waited for him while he was collaborating with “the enemy,” do you not?
Do you not count his stated approval of myriad present and known lies in his campaign lies as a betrayal of America…or just his integrity?
Does his proven lack of integrity since the Forrestal, his cooperation for medical treatment after his martial incompetence and “anchorman” stupidity got him shot down, his marital infidelity not count for anything with those whose “inattention” to civic duty and honor has resulted in support of the fascist, racist faction, led by a homosexual draft-dodger, to kill 3,000 innocent Americans on 9/11?
Obama seems to be a righteous husband and father: two marks of grace that no rational voter can dispute.
Is Palin’s posture on Hitleresque power of incested daughters not evidence enough of her lack of grace? Or her latest birth? Or her myriad lies?
Pull your head out. Admit your affinity for racism and the Anti-Christ…and please consider leaving this once greatest most Promised Land in human history if your blindness and perversion so prevent you from choosing the good of Obama over the proven evil of Keating Five, “Married to the Mob” McCain.
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