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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1045000" data-attributes="member: 1246">Huh?<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57539472/obama-camp-romney-momentum-claims-a-bluff/" target="_blank">DENVER (CBS)</a> – Obama campaign senior adviser David Plouffe sought to knock down claims by the Romney camp that they are gaining momentum and steaming toward victory on Wednesday. Plouffe called those claims “more bluff than reality” and contended that the Romney camp is “overstating their Electoral College situation.” “We think we maintain a lot more plausible pathways to 270 than Governor Romney, who we think essentially has to pull an inside straight in terms of the Electoral College,” Plouffe said during a bus ride through Iowa, noting that the President is leading or essentially tied in polls of most battleground states. “Governor Romney’s campaign likes to talk about how well they’re doing in North Carolina, but we think we’re doing a lot better in Ohio and Iowa and Nevada than they’re doing in North Carolina.” Plouffe argued that the Obama campaign is “already sitting at a win number” in some of the battleground states, though he declined to say which ones. “I’m not going to call states, but we’d win the election if it were held today,” he said. Obama campaign officials have sought to downplay the significance of Romney’s rise in the polls following his strong performance in the first of three presidential debates. Today, Plouffe argued that the bump Romney received was a natural and inevitable tightening in a race that widened artificially in September. “Governor Romney was not going to get 44 or 45 percent in battleground states,” he said. “He’s a major party nominee in a divided country in a tough economy. He’s going to get 47, 48, 49 in a bunch of these states. So that’s all that’s happened is Governor Romney picked up some of what he lost. We don’t consider that momentum.” </blockquote>

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