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On Private Calls, Top Obama Advisers Expressing Real Worry That Complacency Will Damage Fundraising, Turnout
tpm's greg sargeant writes:
In two private conference calls this week with leading fundraisers, surrogates, and prominent supporters, senior Obama advisers expressed genuine worry that his lead in the polls is creating a complacency among supporters that the advisers are afraid will create a serious drag on fundraising and turnout, a person who was on both calls says.
Obama and his aides have publicly warned against complacency, but in general terms, and such gestures have been widely viewed as pep-talks.
These private discussions, though, suggest that the worry is genuine, and that it has taken the specific form of worry about money and get-out-the-vote efforts.
"The calls each had the same theme, which struck me," the person who was on both calls says. "They were worried about Democrats being so confident of victory -- it's a recurring theme." The Obama campaign declined to comment on the calls.
On one of the calls, a key focus was money. "The big fear was that people will start thinking their donations don't count," the person who was on the calls says. Speaking of Obama's advisers, he continued: "They were really concerned that in the final stretch people will feel their $50 or $100 don't matter."
On the second call, the person says, a key topic for senior Obama advisers was turnout -- specifically among young people, who may not have learned yet from bitter experience just now dramatically presidential campaigns can tighten up or shift in the home stretch.
"They're increasingly concerned about their supporters taking this victory for granted, particularly among people who are going through this for the first time," the person says. "The words they used were, `too confident of victory," and they worry that this will result in a slacking off in turnout."
Separately, Ben Smith reports that Obama himself got on a call with staff to tell them not to "get cocky."
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