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Obama Camp Convinced of Big Win?

By Ed Brayton

So says the London Telegraph, which cites Obama insiders as saying they think he's going to win big with well over 300 electoral votes. They think this because they're convinced that they have the upper hand in the "ground game" of turning out their constituencies to the polls, especially young people and poor and minority voters, who typically vote in lower numbers than other groups.

Barack Obama's senior aides believe he is on course for a landslide election victory over John McCain and will comfortably exceed most current predictions in the race for the White House.

Their optimism, which is said to be shared by the Democratic candidate himself, is based on information from private polling and on faith in the powerful political organisation he has built in the key swing states.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).