We’re Going To Be OK’ Because Of Our Ground Game

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina believes that the campaign's ground game is what will ultimately deliver a victory for President Obama, even if Mitt Romney makes a late comeback in the polls, he told the Huffington Post on Monday. 

"I think that's eventually going to matter," Messina said of a chart which showed the Obama campaign's field offices outnumbering Mitt Romney's in battleground states like Ohio and Colorado. "We're just going to have the availability to do two things. [The Romney campaign is] going to turn their vote out. And I think they're going to do a better job than [Sen. John] McCain did turning their vote out. But I think we have the ability to both persuade the undecideds, because of our huge footprint and our experience, and turn out our vote."

Messina argues the Obama campaign's dedicated volunteers give them an edge. 

"Enthusiasm matters. And our people are more enthusiastic than their people," he told The Huffington Post. "Does [a volunteer] go out and make two more phone calls at the end of the day? Does he call his cousin he doesn't like and say, 'Hey, you've got to vote for Obama?' Does he do all those little things to get us there?"

"And I think that's why we're going to be OK," Messina said.