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Report: Al Gore To Campaign For Obama In Florida
Chuck Todd and the gang at MSNBC's First Read have a nice little scooplet (no link yet):
Tomorrow, according to sources, Al and Tipper Gore will be stumping for Obama in West Palm and Ft. Lauderdale. It's the first time he's campaigned in Florida for president since 2000. While he's campaigned in the Sunshine State since 2000, he's not done so for a presidential candidate since he himself was running.
The image of Gore in Florida, for obvious reasons, will be a powerful one for rank-and-file Dems. Also note the extraordinary amount of attention that the Obama camp is lavishing on the state in the home stretch.
Bill Clinton was there yesterday with Obama, who holds a rally there this morning, and now Gore tomorrow. You have to imagine that all the Dem activity in this state, which was supposed to be an easy win for McCain, is rattling the McCain team like nothing else.
Late Update: Gore spokesperson Kalee Kreider emails to confirm that the events are indeed set to go.
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ironic, lieberman was with mccain and gore is with obama. What 8 years do...
October 30, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
David Plouffe made a video explaining his Florida strategy including the astronomical amount of money that the campaign was devoting to Florida, which seems to make it clear that Florida is that state that Obama (or at least Plouffe) most wants to win, even more so than Ohio.
October 30, 2008 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
FL is also McCain's Verdun. He's had to bleed his cash-strapped campaign half to death in a state he presumably started out thinking he would't have to worry about.
October 30, 2008 9:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
That describes like a dozen states.
October 30, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
...including ARIZONA!
October 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
The only way I'd take exception to that is that despite horrific casualties on both sides, Verdun was ultimately a stalemate. A more correct (and infinitely more painful, for McCain) analogy might be Dien Bien Phu.
October 30, 2008 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pow! (or, should I have spelled that P.O.W.?)
October 30, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
They knew Florida had much more potential than Obama. We ALREADY outnumber Repubs in FL and their is many more Dems who could be registered. We just have to get them out to vote.
October 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Having Bill Clinton and Al Gore come out AFTER Obama's more than PROVEN that he CAN WIN without them - but would love their support ---- is a VERY SMART MOVE by Obama!
October 30, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like they're trying to make it an early night on Tuesday.
October 30, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
To me it looks like they aren't taking shit for granted.
October 30, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oh I would love that. I think winning Virginia would also make it an early night, but winning Virginia AND Florida would make it not only early but a kick ass celebration.
October 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect timing for a Gore appearance in FLA. These guys are brilliant.
October 30, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does McCain have a realistic shot at winning without FL? It looks like without it he'd have to run the board with VA, PA, OH, NM, NV, CO and NC. I don't see him doing that.
October 30, 2008 9:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
As the map stands right now, McCain could win FL, OH, IN, MO, NV, and VA, and he would still come up short.
October 30, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
It seems like only yesterday that some were criticizing Obama and Howard Dean for the fifty-state strategy. Now the idea of changing the political map is becoming a reality.
October 30, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
October 30, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
IS
October 30, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT
October 30, 2008 9:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
October 30, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
October 30, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
JEWS FOR OBAMA!
October 30, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
AND NOT FOR LIEBERMAN!
October 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Karl Rove wrote an editorial in the WSJ saying how you can't trust polls.
Tom Delay was just on Fox saying that the only poll that matters is the poll on election day and not to trust the polls.
What does that tell? Trust the polls
October 30, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, Rove's "secret" math didn't work out so well for him in 2006, did it?
October 30, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Think Rove will be invited to the Secret Republican Reconstruction Meeting next Thursday? What would they do without their master strategist?
October 30, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
What it tells us is that, even though the Repugs have run the worst campaign, have the worst candidates and are on the wrong side of all the issues, they still hope to steal the election with ballot box shenanigans.
Not this time.
October 30, 2008 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
What we're seeing here is akin to the Dems putting on a full-court press in basketball with the time running out while having a fairly substantial lead. Nobody on the Obama campaign team seems to be assuming anything, other than that the country needs them to win, the wider the margin the better, and that they have a dangerous opponent.
October 30, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Plus they need a cheatproof margin.
October 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. You never know about the guy running the clock, nor the scorekeeper, when playing in what a lot of folks think is the opponent's gym.
October 30, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Noone is going to take this state likely. We know that it is a "checkmate state" and if we win it that is all she wrote for McCain.
October 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
They aren't leaving anything to chance..that's for sure!
If you've ever seen the record on national polls that missed altogether, you'd understand why.
October 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dick Morris in the NY Post today writing that same line .... McCain can still win !
In it he says Zogby has Obama at 4% , it's back to 6.9 % today .
October 30, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
This weekend will be like none other.
October 30, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since the "leak" of the McCain pollster's memo, one thing is clear , they're deathly afraid of hopelessness in their supporters. They can't have the "closing the gap" narrative turn out to be wrong.
October 30, 2008 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a quick 'truth about McCain' site (The Annotated Rant) that might convince some fence-sitters that a vote for McCain is a vote for an unstable old crank.
It's articulate, funny, and loaded with helpful 4-letter words which can be employed easily while driving through swing states:
http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/
October 30, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton's kind of a bandwagon jumper.
http://www.entertonement.com/collections/6310/Clinton-Stumps-for-Obama-in-Florida
October 30, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink