US elections: Barack Obama's team believes he can win by a landslide WooHoo

[PerfectSage]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3089433/Barack-Obamas-top-team-believes-he-can-win-White-House-by-a-landslide.html

Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.

Their optimism, which is said to be shared by the Democratic candidate himself, is based on information from private polling and on faith in the powerful political organisation he has built in the key swing states.

Insiders say that Mr Obama's apparent calm through an unusually turbulent election season is because he believes that his strength among first time voters in several key states has been underestimated, both by the media and by the Republican Party.

Mr Obama has come under fire from within Democratic ranks over his message and his tactics. Critics say he has failed to connect with the blue-collar workers seen as crucial to winning the election, and too reluctant to make direct attacks on Mr McCain.

But his aides are convinced that he has a strong chance of winning no fewer than nine states won by George W.Bush in the closely contested 2000 election, including former Republican strongholds like North Carolina, Virginia and even Indiana, which have not voted Democrat for a generation.

Statewide surveys put the likely Electoral College result at a slender Obama win, 273-265. But his campaign staff believe they have a good chance of securing between 330 and 340 votes, and could win up to 364 votes, a landslide on the scale of Bill Clinton's wins.



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[doc03]

1. They have Ohio and Floridah in the solid blue

column and PA leaning blue, how did that happen?

[PerfectSage]

4. That's my CNN electoral map I made.

If Obama's campaign thinks he can get 364 ev's than that's what their internal polls imply. So OH and FL will be close but turn blue.

[featherman]

15. Yeah, I ran that out as a "max" also a few days ago. Very doable. Shame about

MT and ND. I had some hope there for a while. Things could still turn if the Palin effect turns really sour. That's what seems to have take those two off the table.

AZ would be blue this year also except for favorite son vote. Maybe 2012.

[PCIntern]

9. PA will go Obama...

I've seen to that myself...

you know, Republicans aren't the only narcissists around here!

[Coexist]

2. that's my blue florida!

[patrick t. cakes]

3. iowa should be solid blue

[BlooInBloo]

6. It is. DUers just like using bad models.

[BlooInBloo]

5. For the first time, his chances of landslide win are greater than McLame's chances of winning at ALL

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

[PerfectSage]

11. I'm starting to enjoy this election.

:bigsmile:

[ClarkUSA]

7. I don't believe David Plouffe would say anything of the sort to a right wing UK rag...

In fact, he's said (Barack, too) consistently that the race will be close. This is pure unsourced garbage designed to
make Democrats relax our guard and cause Republicans to work harder to beat us.

[PerfectSage]

13. Think about all the bad press McCain's been getting

Think about all the sign's that McCain's camp is in clusterfuck mode.
Think about today's national tracking polls.

If Obama can keep his polling momo, a landslide is possible.

[ClarkUSA]

14. Maybe, but I'm addressing the accuracy of a right wing rag's assertions in your OP

I don't believe for a second that Team Obama would have said this. And this newspaper is unrelentingly pro-McCain,
so the story sound fishy as hell.

[elkston]

19. Yeah, the've always said this would be close, even if they may think otherwise.

And Obama is always working hard as ever on the stump. Nobody is letting up. In fact, if you've seen his speeches this weekend, he is downright volcanic.

[ClarkUSA]

24. That's right -- and there's no way Team Obama is blabbing about their electoral strategy to anyone.

Obama is working damned hard and so should we. I've been phonebanking from home all weekend. Tomorrow and the
rest of the week, as soon as the rain lets up, I'm going to be registering voters. Fuck this landslide BS.

[Terri S]

16. I couldn't agree more

No one in the Obama campaign would ever say that even if they had hopeful signs in their internal polling. This is total bs and shouldn't even be repeated. I've been phone banking at a local office after work and NO ONE is taking anything for granted, and certainly not down here in FL. Everything I've ever heard anyone in the campaign say is that it will be close, and to PLEASE get out and canvass/phone bank/register voters/donate.

[ClarkUSA]

17. Thanks for phonebanking -- this kind of BS story is geared towards making us relax our efforts.

It won't work if we're not gullible.

[Hutzpa]

22. It a shame some here fall for it though

pisses me off that folks could fall for this type of bs....
what happens to reading between the lines people??? :shrug:

[ClarkUSA]

23. The old adages, "Don't believe everything you read" and "Look at the source" apply here.

People want so desperately for Obama to win that it's easy to fall for this patent crap.

[Hutzpa]

21. Just mentioned the same thing down thread

there is no way David Plouffe would say such a thing, have to give them credit though.....
cynical smarts.....

[ClarkUSA]

26. Good job.

:thumbsup:

[LiberalAndProud]

8. I think that too!

The trend is clear. We will beat the cheat.

[gblady]

10. from their lips....

to God's ear.....

[MarjorieG]

12. Intent to vote, maybe, concerned by the state laws/efforts to purge voters.

HAVA has created/mandated database technology that has yet to be used fairly. No match law in FL jeopardizes new registrations there. Anyone in FL care to comment?

[Hutzpa]

18. This is a hit piece, and I don't like it

this newspaper is not a liberal or labor newspaper, it is a conservative
paper with a vindictive and cynical reporting, take this paragraph for
example....

The scale of their ambition will trouble those Democratic sceptics who consider Mr Obama's aides to be complacent and inexperienced in national campaigns.

This is such a divisive statement I'm surprise no one picked it up....nothing to see here or get
excited about.

Obamas aid would not say that, they will tell you this is a close election, so lets stop with the
condescending journalism, some of these english writers gets under my skin, but then again I personally is not surprised.

Another Murdoch production....

[ClarkUSA]

25. Exactly! Word to the gullible: discount anything from The Telegraph UK - it's like quoting NY Post

Better stop dreaming of easy victory and get phonebanking and registering voters, people!

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

20. I wonder if this is a bit of psyops. "Time to get on board the winning team"

That map is pretty optimistic...MO, FL and OH?

[Willo]

27. Thank you for finally saying it!

I understand why they haven't said this earlier but I'm glad they finally have.

THIS IS SO GREAT!


:toast:


Edited to add: Admitting to a landslide doesn't mean to stop working. At some point we have to stop the "it's close" crap because it will work against us.