Greg Sargent has a post arguing that complaints about David Plouffe’s comments about unemployment are being distorted. It seems Plouffe was actually asked a question about whether and how the unemployment rate would impact the Presidential race. He replied by claiming that the number itself wouldn’t impact people’s votes. In other words, Plouffe himself didn’t [...]

Scarecrow, Digby, and Jon Walker rightly took David Plouffe’s promises that a 9% unemployment rate won’t hurt Obama’s reelection chances to task. But I’m at least as appalled by this part of Plouffe’s statement: The White House’s top political adviser, downplaying the significance of the unemployment rate in the 2012 election, said the Republican candidates [...]

David Plouffe points to the enthusiasm of attendees at book events that happened before Obama’s capitulation to argue that Obama’s base doesn’t care about the capitulation.

Apparently, the market values David Plouffe’s work getting Obama elected to be worth the same as the entire Administration tenure of most members of Bush’s inner circle.

When will Obama actually ask the millions of people on his email list to actually make calls to Congress?

I’m listening to an Obama campaign conference call on the state of the race. Some of the eye-popping details:

Sporadic and First-Time Voters Are Voting Early

I’ve been focusing on the early voting numbers, though the McCain team has questioned whether or not the high Democratic turnout really just amounts to voters who would have voted anyway coming out early.

No.

The Obama campaign is quite confident that at least one fifth of these early