Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
On Friday, campaign manager David Plouffe took time out of his hectic schedule to record a short video on a laptop in his office, outlining the basics of our general election strategy and the challenges that lie ahead. From the beginning, this has been your campaign as much as ours, and we wanted to make sure that all of you had a chance to see it: It's been less than four weeks since...
The Mo'Kelly Report (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
See, THIS is exactly what Mo'Kelly has been talking about. Two questions - #1, why is the White media asking Senator Obama about a national anthem issue in Colorado...and NOT John McCain? #2, Why in the hell is Senator Obama giving a public statement on this issue?! David Plouffe (campaign manager) STOP with the silliness! Are you really going to have Senator Obama make some tap dance,...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... rest were Bush states, including such longtime GOP strongholds as Indiana and North Carolina.David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, looks at the map and sees "a huge range of possibilities to get to 270," the winning number of electoral votes. He has told reporters that he was "simply not going to wake up on [Election Day] worried about one state." A confident Obama spent last week...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | yesterday
... someone who'd also help win a swing state would be "kind of a side benefit," according to David Plouffe, manager of Obama's campaign. He pointed out that , whose selection as 's running mate was widely praised at the time, comes from one of the safest Republican states in the country.By now, it's fair to say that somewhere, online or in print, the eventual running mates for both parties...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
... it is also true that, many times, Obama and his advisers used his troop withdrawal promise -- see David Plouffe's "crystal" clarity -- without nuance and deliberately in the sort of short hand that implies that the opinion of the generals in regards to Obama's strategy won't matter that much at all. Here is the McCain campaign's response to Obama's press conferences: Since announcing...
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
As campaign manager David Plouffe explained , "John McCain, the RNC, the shadowy outside groups are not going to let this election happen without a fight." But we know that we are not alone either. Since Barack opted out of the public financing system just two weeks ago, almost 150,000 donors have likewise declared their independence from our broken system and helped build the small...
The News Buckit (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
AP has the details. Is anyone really surprised? Really? Update: Sean Hackbarth in the Hot Air comments flags this choice bit from March. In a conference call with reporters, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe rejected this, saying that Power's comments did not represent a change in Obama's Iraq thinking. "On Iraq he has been very clear. He offered a withdrawal plan well over a year...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
... of Iraq in 16 months. RelatedOn a March 7 conference call with reporters, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe emphatically said Obama has been "crystal clear with the American people that if and when he is elected president, we will be out of Iraq in -- as he said, the time frame would be about 16 months at the most where you withdraw troops. There should be no confusion about that...
TexasSparkle (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
"And, Senator Obama, your campaign manager, David Plouffe, said, 'When he is' -- this is talking about you - 'When he is elected president, we will be out of Iraq in 16 months at the most. There should be no confusion about that.' So you'd give the same rock-hard pledge, that no matter what the military commanders said, you would give the order to bring them home?"Obama: "Because the...
Top Stories (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
... reporters filtered into a first floor DNC meeting room for a briefing from Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, Kennedy once again eluded most of the gathering media mob.“One of the great assets and gifts that Caroline brings to the process is confidentiality and discretion,” said Paul G. Kirk Jr., board chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a former Democratic National...
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
... to compete in those states, all three of which President Bush won in 2004. At , campaign manager David Plouffe said “we think we’re in a very strong position” in North Carolina and Virginia and he indicated Mr. Obama would not be ceding the mountain West to Senator John McCain either. Mr. Obama chose the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs as the venue to on Wednesday.Ms. Burger...
Salon: News and Politics (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
That may be why the Obama campaign signals that narrow geographical calculations may play a role in the hunt for a vice president. Briefing reporters in Washington last week, campaign manager David Plouffe dismissed the notion that a running mate should be expected to deliver his or her home state. Plouffe cited the choices of Al Gore in 1992 (Bill Clinton would have won Tennessee...
American Spectator (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Alaska has the most land of any state but only three Electoral College votes, and President Bush got of the vote there four years ago. So when Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe last week that the Democrat might make a campaign trip there, eyebrows were raised.Newsweek's Andrew Romano if every reporter covering Plouffe's press briefing at Democratic National Committee...
Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
After I wrote this , then the campaign appeared to take my challenge and made several promising announcements about moving staff into and spending money in the Lone Star. Obama's 50-state strategy , (Obama campaign manager David Plouffe) said, is designed to help the party increase its majority on Capitol Hill and to try to regain control of state legislatures, including Texas, where...
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
... not voted for a Democrat for president since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.But Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters last week that Indiana is "highly competitive.""We've got a terrific organization there and McCain is not on the air, doesn't have any organization to speak of," Plouffe said. "So we're going to press our advantage in Indiana and really try to build our...
