Five Paths to Obama’s Reelection
WASHINGTON — At a briefing with reporters on Tuesday morning, top officials in the Obama campaign outlined five distinct paths that they can pursue to help the president win reelection.
Speaking at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, chief strategist David Axelrod and campaign manager Jim Messina pledged to take the same numbers-based approach to the 2012 campaign that former campaign manager David Plouffe famously used in 2008. And in surveying the electoral map, they have gamed out several regional strategies to help them clear the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes.
Assuming the president is able to hold on to the says that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) won in 2004 — a not entirely risk-free assumption — the campaign could try to follow what…
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