Obama Camp: Romney’s Blue State Momentum Is A Bluff
Mitt Romneys campaign and its allies are testing the waters in Pennsylvania and Minnesota, two states that have mostly been taken for granted as solid blue this election. But top aides to the Obama campaign claim theyre not worried.
Were winning this race, senior adviser David Axelrod told reporters over the phone on Monday. And I say this not on the basis of some mystical faith in a wave thats going to come, or some hidden vote. We base it on cold hard data based on whos voted so far and on state-by-state polling.
In Minnesota, polling is scarce, but one recent survey showed the state surprisingly close, while others show its still strongly leaning towards Obama. Romneys campaign made a small but surprising ad buy in the Minneapolis area last week. In Pennsylvania, which also looks solid for Obama in most polls, pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future announced a significant ad buy on Monday and Paul Ryan recently visited the state.
The Romney campaign wants you to think its expanding the map, but its not, OFA campaign manager Jim Messina said. They tried this before: a month ago they were going to surge in Michigan, then they werent. A couple of weeks ago too they were going to surge in Maine
then they werent.
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