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Obama Camp Targets: Swing-Voting Women, Sporadically Voting Dems
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Campaign manager Plouffe tells The Atlantic in Denver that Obama’s internal polling suggests McCain runs a double-digit deficit with these groups in some swing states — something they hope to capitalize on. ...

Barrmania!
Hit & Run — ... Obama campaign manager David Plouffe seems just about as optimistic. He thinks Obama needs 47 percent of the vote to win Georgia, given the Barr support there (and the lack of any other third parties on the ballot). Georgia and Indiana have probably the best Barr/LP organizations (if heavies from another state want to correct me, fire up that e-mail). But it's a pretty slender reed. Even the farcical Ralph Nader campaign has more going on here than Barr's campaign. Sure, they've been reduced to giving away tickets to tonight's "Super Rally '08 w/ Special Mystery ...

Plouffe Nuggets
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ambers debriefs the Obama campaign guru: ** If McCain doesn't win Colorado, "he has a 5% chance to win the election." ** He believes that they have "a slight edge" in Virginia. ** He said Obama is underperforming only among working class whites over 70 and pointed to a poll showing that Obama is over performing John Kerry with working class white voters under 50. ** Said that the campaign's target in Georgia is about 47% of the vote, owing to Ex-Rep. Bob Barr's ability to siphon votes away ...

“The worst thing to happen to journalism in 20 years.”
The Moderate Voice — ... Pfieffer and David Plouffe offered a little behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the Obama campaign handles polling. Marc Ambinder has the details: ...

David Plouffe On The Race
Daily Kos — Marc Ambinder (whose reporting has been must-read) and Mark Blumenthal offer nuggets from an on-the-record briefing by David Plouffe. From Ambinder: Barack Obama's margin among independent swing-voting women and sporadically voting Democrats are two of the main metrics his campaign is closely monitoring, Obama's election manager, David Plouffe, said today. Plouffe, speaking to reporters, editors and executives of the Atlantic Media company in a throwback conference room in downtown Denver, said that Obama's internal polling suggests ...

Deja Vu
Suburban Guerrilla — So much for that 50-state strategy: We tried to get Plouffe to react to a spate of national polls showing a tightening race. “All we care about is these 18 states,” he said. He repeated, with emphasis, that the campaign does not care about national polling. Instead, the campaign’s own identification, registration and canvassing efforts provide the data he uses to determine where to invest money and resources.

What Obama Needs to Do
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... Democratic-leaning independents. According to [Stan] Greenberg’s polling, Obama is running nine points ahead of McCain in neighboring Oakland County, the home of well-to-do professionals and managers. All in all, Obama has a good chance to win in November–but this summer the Obama campaign has made the crucial error of conducting itself as it were on the verge of a landslide victory, comparable to Lyndon Johnson’s win over Barry Goldwater in 1964. And it is still displaying the same overconfidence . This resulted in snubbing McCain’s suggestion for multiple town hall debates, ...

Presidential Forecast, 8/28: Breathing A Bit Easier
Open Left - Front Page — ... Some might object, and say that pulling out of any state is a violation of the principles of the fifty-state strategy. However, the fifty-state strategy does not mandate equal spending in all states all the time. Instead, it means spending in all states at least some of the time, a greater emphasis on field than on paid media, and more decentralized control over the expenditure of funds raised by the DNC. The Obama campaign has staff everywhere, but is focusing mainly on the 18 states where it is running paid media. There isn't anything wrong with that. You try to play ...

Can Obama Become a Generic Democrat?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... , then focusing on turning out the base by running as a partisan Democrat and shoring up the Hillary vote seems like a safe--perhaps the only--path to 269 electoral votes. ...

Chris Meserole: Obama's Speech, and the Strategy Behind It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... and Marc Ambinder have reported, the Obama camp has some very positive numbers in the 18 swing states they're targeting. ...