The high command of the Deeds-for-governor campaign says victory -- discouraging polls notwithstanding-- is possible next Tuesday, but Democrats have to turn out their vote.
"We are very much in this game," strategist Mo Elleithee told a conference call with reporters this afternoon.
Elleithee, along with political director Levar Stoney and campaign manager Joe Abbey, discussed Creigh Deed's voter-mobilization program.
It's largely aimed at so-called Obama surge voters, Virginians who flooded the polls last year, tipping the state to a Democrat for president for the first time since 1964.
Democrats estimate that there are more than 500,000 voters, many relatively new to politics, who backed Barack Obama and represent a potential trove of support for Deeds.
Many of these voters, says Abbey, are in the Northern Virginia-to-Hampton Roads urban-suburban crescent. That's among the reasons Norfolk was selected for yesterday's presidential visit.
According to Abbey, Deeds volunteers knocked on 100,000 doors this past weekend, plan to hit another 175,000 this weekend and 200,000 on Election Day.
Also, phone banks are expected to generate 700,000 calls. But Deeds expects as well to reach out to voters via Facebook, Twitter -- "any and all means possible," says Abbey. -- Jeff E. Schapiro
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