Obama warns against overconfidence (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Obama warns against overconfidence
Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:36pm EDT

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee
Barack Obama warned his supporters to guard against
overconfidence on Thursday as he and underdog Republican
rival John McCain opened a 19-day sprint to Election Day.

The two candidates hit the campaign trail -- Obama in
New York and New Hampshire and McCain in Pennsylvania
-- after their third and last presidential debate on
Wednesday, a testy face-off that made an Ohio plumber
famous.

So far, all the stars seemed to be lining up in Obama's
favor. He leads in national opinion polls and in many of
the battleground states where the November 4 race will
be won or lost.

A confident but cautious Obama told supporters in New
York "We are now 19 days not from the end but from the
beginning. The amount of work that's going to be involved
for the next president will be extraordinary."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4998X420081016

[terrya]

1. Thank you for posting this.

[NEDem]

2. K&R

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Once again

Obama is saying what I want to hear.

It's easy to think of his campaign like an unstoppable train, but all of us should know, especially after the last eight years, that anything can happen.

Of course, if anything DOES happen that prevents Obama from rightfully ascending to the oval office . . .

[democracy1st]

4. K & R

[DCBob]

5. But don't freak out either.

Cautious confidence.

[nichomachus]

6. Oh no -- there are people here on DU who will tell him to just shut up

Stop being such a hand-wringer and negativist. How dare he ignore the DU schoolmarms.

[MadMaddie]

8. There is a difference between naysayers saying Obama is going to

lose and Obama saying, "Don't get cocky, it ain't over yet and don't get complacent"!

[crankychatter]

7. too funny - nt