North Carolina is among Barack Obama's second tier of targets.
In an interview with Politico, the Democratic presidential nominee's deputy campaign manager, Steve Hildebrand, said that they will focus on 14 states won by George W. Bush in 2004.
Hildebrand, in an interview, listed states in order of the margin by which Bush carried them: The closest four, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio, Nevada, he said, would see "a ton of attention."
But he said Obama would campaign hard in ten more states, with the candidate and his top surrogates spending time on the ground and his campaign spending money in the air. Those are Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Montana, North Dakota, Indiana, Georgia, and Alaska.
That likely means a few high-profile rallies and a regular drumbeat of ads here, but not a full-court press such as we saw in the Democratic primary.
If past experience holds, Obama might start to drop off in the polls closer to election day and pull out of the state entirely, as John Kerry did.
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Re: N.C. among second tier of Obama targets
Well, actually, Ryan, we'll know that Obama is still thinking about how to win NC if he says he owes you a Pepsi, the pride of the Carolinas, rather than that hard-edged, inferior beverage from further south.