GOP denies Obama 'enthusiasm gap'
Published: Sept. 1, 2008 at 10:02 AM
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Campaigners for likely Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain deny there is an "enthusiasm gap" among his supporters.
The grassroots campaign machinery assembled by Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has been widely described as a young and energized group. But staffers for the U.S. senator from Arizona, meeting at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota, say they're not impressed, the Washington Web site Politico reported Monday.
Claiming the media has oversold the Obama campaign's enthusiasm level, Sarah Simmons, McCain's director of strategy, told Politico: "We have hundreds of thousands of phone calls going out every week, we are knocking on hundreds of doors and there is a ton of activity on the ground."
Simmons pointed out that even though Obama's campaigners have emphasized so-called "battleground states," McCain is still leading the polls in Florida and North Carolina, and is competitive in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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