Bill Burton and David Plouffe held a conference call this morning. Plouffe announced that the campaign is putting up ads in Georgia and North Dakota and Arizona. On the early vote, Plouffe said the Democrats outnumber Republicans in Florida by 200,000 votes. In North Carolina, 19% of all Democrats that have voted early have never voted before.
Plouffe said they feel confident that they will all the Kerry states, plus they have a realistic path to win all the battlegrounds, plus North Dakota, Arizona, and Georgia. They sent Obama to Iowa today “to pad their lead.”
Because of the extensive early voting, people doing election-day GOTV will have to ‘drive-and-knock’ rather than walk.
In Florida, about a quarter of the sporadic-voting Democrats have already voted, which is roughly the same as the likely-voter pool.
