CQ Politics' reporting guru Jonathan Allen will be sending along dispatches to Ground Game throughout Super Tuesday. His first selection comes from Alabama Democratic Congressman Artur Davis, who discusses Obama's Alabama Strategy and gives a scoop on some internal polling:
Alabama Rep. Artur Davis, a Barack Obama supporter, reported in a brief talk with CQ Politics reporter Jonathan Allen that he will be looking to see whether Obama can run up big enough numbers among African Americans in Montgomery and Birmingham and capture enough of the white vote in Mobile (Mayor Samuel Jones is black) to offset what he called "slippage" among African Americans in rural counties where machine politics dominate.
Alabama Rep. Artur Davis, a Barack Obama supporter, reported in a brief talk with CQ Politics reporter Jonathan Allen that he will be looking to see whether Obama can run up big enough numbers among African Americans in Montgomery and Birmingham and capture enough of the white vote in Mobile (Mayor Samuel Jones is black) to offset what he called "slippage" among African Americans in rural counties where machine politics dominate.
Davis is an expert
at beating Alabama's Democratic machine, having toppled Rep. Earl F. Hilliard in
a 2002 primary that pitted him against the state's old
guard.
Davis, a Harvard-trained lawyer who voted at a housing project near his home in the majority-black 7th District Tuesday morning, said thunderstorms are likely to hold off until at least early tonight -- good news, he believes for the Obama camp.
The lastest non-public poll he saw had Obama and Clinton tied at 45 percent apiece.
He said Obama's "biggest impediment" in Alabama and Tennessee has been a limited opportunity to campaign in those states to build a "comfort level" with white Democrats in those states.
CQ Politics hopes to get more updates from Obama later in the day.
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