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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama's PowerPoint Pitch
by Amanda Carpenter
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Assisted by a 12-slide Power Point presentation Barack Obama’s presidential campaign manager David Plouffe outlined his winning strategy to Democratic fundraisers last week.

According to a copy of the presentation obtained by ABC News, Obama will win the November election by beating GOP candidate John McCain among women and Hispanics, winning battle ground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and taking the traditionally-Republican states of Virginia, Missouri, Colorado, Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico.

Plouffe used recent polling data from Rasmussen, Gallup, SurveyUSA, Quinnipiac, Zogby and NBC to construct graphs supporting these points.

GOP operatives will take pride in some bits of information from the leaked presentation. First, Plouffe’s selected polling shows McCain consistently cutting a 14-15 percent dent into Obama’s Democratic voters and the two candidates running nearly head-to-head among independents.

Secondly, the last slide of Plouffe’s presentation contains an obvious plea for dollars based on GOP fundraising prowess. It’s a single slide of a bar graph showing how the Republican National Committee dominating the Democratic National Committee in the fundraising game, $53.6 million to a paltry $4.4 million. It’s preceded by a quote McCain adviser Carly Fiorina made during an interview on CNN: “In truth the RNC is raising money very specifically for the presidential campaign and by the rules the money that the RNC raises can be used for the presidential campaign. So, it’s actually very relevant to talk about what the RNC raises.”

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Amanda Carpenter is National Political Reporter for Townhall.com.
 
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Subject: Not opinion
TOWNHALL TAKE NOTE: This, like all Amanda Carpenter's articles, is NOT an opinion piece. It's straight reporting, almost a recitation of data. She offers NO personal opinion. Why her "columns" appear under the editorial or opinion banner of Townhall is a mystery.

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And I don't mean the singing group...that is the basis for my vote...pure and simple. Two Supremes to replace deserves a vote for Sen. McCain...whether or not I like his views on immigration or ANWR holds no water when I look at two lifetime appointments. He is for drilling offshore now in response to citizen pressure (as it should be in a leader)...I think we can live with the other things but we truly cannot live with Obama's selections for the court. Looking at the bogus decision they just made, how can a conservative even think of sitting this one out?
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