Obama's ground game: 770 field offices - 1.2 million 'conversations' this weekend. [View All]

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Obama's ground game: 770 field offices
The Democrat's campaign plans 1.2 million 'conversations' this weekend.
Posted October 24, 2008 3:45 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

It isn't only massive television advertising on which the Obama campaign is basing its confidence in some of the most heavily contest electoral battleground states. It's also the canvassing of volunteeers and the work of paid staffers in an organization with 770 field offices.

And they are battling on many fronts.

"Strategically, we try to have as wide a path as possible,'' David Plouffe, the campaign manager, said today.

And, maintaining that Obama is not worried about either of the Republicans' main assaults now - the tax argument framed around "Joe the Plumber,'' or a TV ad replaying running mate Joe Biden's warning that Obama will draw a test from the nation's enemies if elected - the Obama campaign says it will likely stick with its own message through the end.

"We're going to continue with the same messaging we've had all along,'' Plouffe told reporters in a conference call that included other campaign staff- sort of a closing-campaign challenge to the other side to show what they've got going for them. "We also think there is some value in that. We have not careened from message to message, as our opponent has... That constancy is something that has been a positive.''

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