Thursday, September 11, 2008

Chill, Fellow Dems

Gail Collins puts it in perspective (and by the way, O is up five points in Ohio and Penn today).
Have you seen the polls? He should be talking more about the economy! Why isn’t his campaign working harder?
If the Obama brain trust seems relatively serene compared with its seething base, it’s because they live in the Electoral College world, where the presidential race only takes place in a third of the country. They don’t care about national polls — a concept as quaint as measuring one’s wealth by caribou pelts. They worry about the undecided vote in Minnesota and Ohio and run their TV ads (about the economy) in places like Colorado and Michigan and Florida. If you live in California or New York or Texas, you don’t really have much of a feel for their level of effort because as far as they’re concerned, you’ve already voted.


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