Jim Messina, Obama Campaign Manager, Says Even If Romney Surges, 'We're Going To Be OK'

[DonViejo]

CHICAGO – "Let me show you what kind of advantage we have," said Jim Messina, springing out of a chair in his downtown office.

Messina, the 42-year old campaign manager for President Barack Obama's reelection effort, took a thick three-ring binder off his desk, plopped it down, and opened it to the page comparing the number of field offices for the Obama campaign in swing states to those for Republican nominee Mitt Romney's campaign.

The chart, which he said he included in a slide show presentation to Senate Democrats earlier this month, showed the Obama campaign with 123 field offices in Ohio to the Romney campaign's 40, and a 59 to 15 edge in Colorado.

"I think that's eventually going to matter," Messina said, referring to the chart. "We're just going to have the availability to do two things. [The Romney campaign is] going to turn their vote out. And I think they're going to do a better job than [Sen. John] McCain did turning their vote out. But I think we have the ability to both persuade the undecideds, because of our huge footprint and our experience, and turn out our vote."

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[Daemonaquila]

1. Let's all just ignore that...

and go for a landslide instead. The fat lady hasn't sung yet, and everyone had best be on the lookout for every dirty trick in the book to swing votes by a few points.