McCain campaign predicts 'one of the greatest comebacks'
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/31/rickdavis.jpg caption="Rick Davis says McCain is closing gaps in the polls."]
(CNN) - As late polls continue to shows Barack Obama with an edge over John McCain in key battleground states, the Arizona senator’s campaign manager told reporters Friday the Republican nominee had momentum heading into the race’s closing days.
"We fight back," campaign manager Rick Davis said on a conference call, echoing McCain’s recent stump speech. "And we are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks since John McCain won the primaries."
The latest CNN national poll of polls shows that Senator Barack Obama is at 50 per cent to McCain's 43 per cent, with 7 percent undecided. But Davis said surveys are irrelevant in the race’s homstretch.
"Guess what? Polling isn't accumulative," he said. "It's whatever it is today, and we see a very, very tight race today, so it really doesn't matter where it was ten days ago."
Davis claims that the campaign is beating back the perception that Obama is better suited to handling the financial crisis.
"One thing that is clear is that we've established a momentum; we've increased our gains in virtually every one of the battleground states throughout the course of the week," Davis said. "We've had probably the best 10 days of polling since the convention. We think we've shaken off the effects of the financial collapse that suppressed our numbers prior to the last debate."
Some CNN analysts see a different story.
"Obama's lead in most of the battleground states appears to be holding steady at this point," said CNN Senior Political Researcher Alan Silverleib. "If McCain can't close the gap over the weekend in states like Florida, North Carolina, and Ohio, there is no way for him to reach 270 electoral votes on Election Night."
And the McCain campaign is pushing its ground and advertising efforts as hard as possible in those states, pouring additional resources into advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts in battleground states like New Hampshire and Ohio.
"We're banking on a very close race," said Davis. "I mean we think this is going to be a tight electoral college year. We think this is going to be a tight popular vote year. There's no indications otherwise today."
And he responded to Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s morning announcement that the Democratic nominee was going on the air in McCain’s home state of Arizona, and back on the airwaves in traditional GOP strongholds like North Dakota and Georgia.
"We encourage them to please pick other states that we intend to win, to spend their campaign cash and spread it out as much as they can," said Davis.
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right.....and a white elephant has been spotted in asia too. How crushing it will be to the thugs when they finally see that their reign of terror has come to an end.
Woo hoo go team McCain!
Obama/Biden 08 & 12
Hey McCain Campaign, are you going to release Palins MEDICAL RECORDS, like she promised last week?
What are you hiding??
Greatest come back ... to Hell.
No, Rick Davis, you don't "fight back" you lie, cheat, steal and manipulate elections to go your way... just like in '04...... I'm just waiting for it to FULLY begin... what we've seen so far is nothing... it's going to get REAL dirty REAL soon.....
I think they are betting on the supreme court to overturn the election's result. LOL.
This is not the stock market pal. Are you giving McCain some of the money you took from the people who paid you double duty? Okay even if we look at the polls it gives us hope that our candidate is winning. Daaaaaaaaaah
Lobbyist.
I look at this guys picture and only one word comes to mind and that is hes a giant DORK.
And if they were ahead in the polls, they'd say: "Look at the polls...John McCain is leading because the voters are connecting with his message."
Give me a break. As long as we have proper turnout and no intimidation at the polls, Obama will cruise to victory. He only needs one more battleground state....take your pick between Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Caroline, Missouri, Indiana, or Arizona. Can McCain win all of those?
Doubtful.
"And we are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks since John McCain won the primaries."
Wow, that's quite a bold statement Rick, considering this is the only election that has taken place since John McCain won the primaries. I continue to be amazed that McCain is getting spanked with geniuses like this telling him what to do.
He should suspend his campaign and vote for himself 5mil times in battleground states.
People, make sure you report any and all suspicious voting rights being infringed upon. Their claim of a come back is suspicious. We hear about the justice department being sent out to monitor 23 states and directly after we get this head line. It means one thing, they are being sent to eliminate democratic ballots.
Report the smallest sign of voter intimidation, and report it to the media, not the police or the justice department...because they are the one's advocating it!
What else are they going to say? The McCain sideshow is going down and I can't wait until Tuesday. My friends and I are having the biggest George-W-Bush Rejection Party.
Obama/Biden 08
The closer it gets to the election, the more independents will back McCain because they will realize they just don't know enough about Obama and his shady past alliances and his short and unaccomplished record
Talk about lost in Translation...
McCain...........fight – fight – fight
Obama.........UNITE – UNITE – UNITE
The #1 choice is clear.......Obama/Biden
My vote has already been cast!!!
MO go blue!!!!
If by "comeback" you mean loss then yes – this is going to be quite the "comeback"....
I'm sure you will "fight". That's all you seem to know how to do. You do not know how to unite or exercise diplomatic strategy. What will you do if a foreign leader says something you don't like? Yell, curse, throw things. That'll work McCain and Palin.
So tired of this negative, slanderous campaign. So tired of this campaign's hateful, bigoted, right-wing, pseudo-Christian supporters.
It doesn't matter how close the race is, as long as Obama wins!!!!
The McCain campaign is really putting their hopes in the prayer that white voters will not vote for a black candidate. Maybe some won't, but the effects of a recession does not pick and choose who is affected by race.
Obama/Biden 08
Who are they trying to kid? The way they have ran this campaign is horrendous. From Fear-mongering to saying that their opponents are Godless. How much lower can the Rupublicans sink? Go home McCain and take a nap. You have made a horrible mistake in your negative campaign but you finally brought people together to vote against you.
LOL sure they are