Robert Gibbs, a senior advisor to Barack Obama, talked to reporters today, and the full report, per NBC/NJ's Athena Jones, is available after the jump.
The News: Obama will make three stops Sunday in Ohio
Gibbs talks Halloween (Obama will Trick or Treat in Chi tmrw eve with his daughters), Missouri, Ohio, John McCain’s Khalidi attack, ethics complaint and the story about Obama’s ‘aunt’ (no comment on this)
Read on.
In a brief scrum with reporters after the Sarasota event, Gibbs said Obama's trip to Iowa Friday was partially to encourage early voting. He said that in the last few weeks the campaign has popped into places “when they’re in the midst of or in the beginning of early vote to try to drive those numbers up.”
On Halloween: Gibbs said Obama would be back in Chicago Friday night to play the “exceedingly important role of Trick-or-Treater in Chief” but doesn’t know what he’ll dress up as and was unclear about whether he would actually go trick or treating with his daughters (there’s been talk that they’ll go with family friends or to a party at a neighborhood friends house. It is unclear whether the pool – CNN – will get video, but it looks like something they are trying to avoid.
On Missouri visits: “It’s a big chunk of electoral votes and in a state that not surprisingly has had big economic troubles. We’ve had good crowds and good enthusiasm there dating back to the primaries. You know, again it’s one more red state that we’re playing offense in heading up til Tuesday.”
On Ohio: “We’re there, far as I know all day Sunday, so we’re uh, I think there’s three stops in Ohio Sunday so we’ll get a good chunk of that as well.”
Gibbs said visiting places like Sarasota and Jacksonville is not as much about ‘this is a Republican area, this is a Democratic area, because in each of these areas there are Democrats that will normally participate in a state election that may not for some reason vote in a presidential election. There’s that fall off or drop off vote that we want to get excited, you know, whether it’s- I mean, I don’t know the figures for this area (Sarasota) but I know for instance up in the northern part of the state like in Jacksonville, there’s a big chunk of folks that just don’t participate for some reason in Democratic elections and a stop there and a visit by us coordinated with trying to get folks out to vote early has a way of, again, not just changing the percentage within an area, but changing the importance of that area as it relates to Democratic voters.”
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