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Ambinder reporting that Obama side is telling folks it’s a close race

Team Obama is asking for additional help in MN and nationally

check out http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com and scroll down a bit. Both got posted by Ambinder around 4:30 p.m. eastern

Here’s one:

I’m a student at Carleton College who has contributed (financially and with my time) to the Obama campaign. I just got an automated call from Jeff Blodgett, the chair of the MN campaign. The text of the call was:

“Hello, this is Jeff Blodgett from the Minnesota for Obama campaign. Our initial data shows this election is significantly closer than the polls predicted. We are putting out an urgent call for volunteers… We are organized groups to knock on doors at five P.M., or earlier if you can, for our final GOTV operation.” This was followed by different numbers to call based on your residence.

Here’s another:

A New York City-based Obama home phonebanker who’s been making calls through the MyBO.com hub to PA and VA says he just received this e-mail:

Friends — Barack needs your help now — our data indicates that the results will be very close in many states. I can’t emphasize enough how urgent this message is. Please go to http://my.barackobama.com/call and start calling as soon as you can. We are not going to hit our goal of 500,000 calls for today by 3pm Central, unless we get at least 2,000 more people calling for the next hour. Can you call now and continue for as long as you can manage? http://my.barackobama.com/call Thank you. Judith

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COMMENTS

  • Siberian

    If you were the Obama team who has been playing the don’t be complacent game for the last 2 weeks (for obvious reasons) this would seem to be a logical extension of it.

    There’s no harm for them in sounding the alarm bells even if they think they are comfortably ahead.

    Hate to be the wet blanket here but I haven’t see anything today that really gives me any hope that McCain will pull this one out.