Obama camp calls Mo a prime takeover target
David Plouffe, the national campaign manager for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, singled out Missouri in a conference call Thursday as one of a dozen or so states that went Republican in 2004 and the Obama camp believes he can carry in November.
As a result, the campaign is sending in some of its strongest field staff members, he said.
“We believe it’s a very competitive state,” Plouffe said, referring to Missouri. He noted that Obama wins the White House if he simply adds Missouri and Iowa to his column, while retaining all the states won by losing 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry.
Later, Plouffe explained that Missouri voters are seen as receptive to the Democratic message because they are “very unhappy about the economy” and “the way Washington works.”
Rural Missouri also is suffering “real economic hardship,” he added.
Couple all that with “optimal Democratic turnout” in Missouri’s Democratic strongholds (largely urban territory) and that could spell a victory, Plouffe added.
“It’ll be close,” he said.
The spokesman for the presumptive GOP nominee, John McCain, replied that their camp agrees with Plouffe’s general assessment of the Missouri public’s discontent and the closeness of the contest between the candidates.
But in the end, McCain spokesman Jeff Sadosky said, Missouri voters will choose between two candidates with “dramatically different views on how to change things.”
The two also have different characters, Sadosky added. McCain’s life history, he said, shows that he “put his country ahead of his personal political ambitions.”
Obama, he said, “time and time again…has placed his own personal and political ambitions ahead of the good of the country.”
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But in the end, McCain spokesman Jeff Sadosky said, Missouri voters will choose between two candidates with “dramatically different views on how to change things.”
I think what he meant is that voters can choose between someone who supports almost all of George Bush’s policies - but is from Arizona - or someone who will take the country in a different and better direction. THAT’LL BE A HARD CHOICE IN NOVEMBER!