McCain confident about Fla but in for fight

Sen. McCain is going to have to step up his effort in Florida, his campaign seemed to tacitly acknowledge this evening in a conference call with reporters. Political director Mike DuHaime noted that George W. Bush won the state but "he won it with a very aggressive campaign."

"It was not a state that anyone would have considered safe throughout the election. It was one that an aggressive campaign must be waged in," DuHaime said in response to a question about new polls showing Barack Obama up by as much as 8 points.

“Sen. Obama has spent an incredible amount of money in Florida over time, and throughout the summer we were not on the air. We’ve just been aggressively on the air for three to four weeks at this point."

By mid-September, Obama had invested about $8-million in the state. By the same time in 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign had spent $13-million on Florida TV.

DuHaime went on: "Florida is always a state that’s always had, or at least in recent history, has had more Democrats than Republicans. So any state like that, of course, you have to wage an aggressive campaign to be successful. We feel confident about Florida."

One thing he did not say is that Florida will get more resources as McCain withdraws from Michigan. Staffers and other resources will be dispatched to Maine, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

McCain adviser Greg Strimple foreshadowed the campaign game plan. Noting the RNC took in $66-million in September he said:

"We are looking for a very aggressive last 30 days. We are looking to turn the page on this financial crisis and getting back to discussing Mr. Obama's aggressively liberal record and how he will be too risky for Americans."

 

Comments

FLORIDA IS FIXED. OF COURSE HE IS CONFIDENT!

http://www.drawger.com/zinasaunders/images/Frankenstein-McCain.jpg

he better stop talking about this tax increase he is 'thinking' about.

i miss the real republicans....the ones who cared about the constitution and fiscal responsibility.

he better stop talking about this tax increase he is 'thinking' about.

i miss the real republicans....the ones who cared about the constitution and fiscal responsibility.

i think he's out of money

[Lucky]

Florida will go Obama. Mccain has become an angry and bitter man, and it has shown over the past 2 weeks. He is old and Palin is not qualified to be president. We need help in this state and in our country. We need a new government with an optimistic leader. It doesnt matter if Mccain moves into the state, the more people see and hear him, the more they realize we need a change and he is not the answer.

[Occor]

Good evening folks, I have a few question's for the people on this board.
What qualifies Mr.Obama to become president? What has he done in his year(s) in the Senate and his years as a community organizer that qualifies Mr.Obama to run this Country.
What is he going to do to punish the Clinton machine for the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac debacle, for it was on Mr Clintons watch when he strong armed banks to give home loans to people that could not afford the loan.
Thank you for your consideration and answers.

[Lucky]

Occor...Obama is smart and his policies for us little folk are so much better that Mccain. I need health insurance for example. He was a community organizer for a short time before Harvard Law school, nothing wrong with that. The fannie/freddie thing only accounts for 10% of mortgage loans. Most loans over past 8 years, (yes people actually borrowed money while Bush was president), were from private mortgage companies not subject to the clinton enacted rule you refer to. Our financial collapse has more to do with Mortgage backed securities and accounting rules than anything else. It was the greed of wall street firms who packaged this stuff to investors virtually unregulated that has left us holding the bag. The bs about minority lending is propaganda designed to incite racism and prejudice. It is not what caused this one trillion dollar crisis. Obama is a good man. We need an optimist now, not an angry partisan to divide us. I am tired of hate and negativity.

sure t'ing...

johnnie mcBUSH is CONFIDENT...

like the war in VIETRAQ will be short...

we will be greeted as "VICTORS"...

there is NO underlying CONFLICT between shi'ia and sunni...

george BUSH is NOT a stupid DRUNKEN JACKASS...

and on and on and on and on.....

just one more example of

POST-TRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER

johnnie mcBUSH is inherently DANGEROUS!!

McCain was confident that the fundamentals of our economy are strong as well. He is out of touch with what is really going on in this country.

[Obama]

is a communist and his friends are Chavez and Castro.

[Raven]

McMoreWar is also confident that there will be WMDs found in Iraq.

McBush is confident that the "fundamentals of the economy of strong".

McBlinky is so confident that he doesn't ask how to get off the stage when done speaking.

Yeah, all that confidence and no where to go, Johnny McBush3

Obama will take Pasco County, because Bill Bunting & Ann Bunting are not doing there jobs. I have been around Pasco County and I have seen about 3 signs, for McCain none of McCain and Palin. Can anyone see what is going on here? Have been told by friends of mine, they have gone by the office on 52 asking for McCain signs or McCain/Palin signs. The workers up there said they had none, but my friends stated they some along side of the wall. What is going on here? I think Bill Bunting does not know what he is doing. I told them to call State RPOF and if they did not get an answer there to call the NRC. Oh will not do you see where OBAMA will take Pasco.

[True Blue]

BEWARE:THE OLD MAN(AND HIS SIDEKICK SARA FAILIN) COMMETH TO TAKE YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AWAY TO DIE IN A WAR!!!