Fourteen days before the election, Team Obama is feeling just fine.
That's despite a Drudge Report story that shows a picture of President Obama holding an infant at a campaign rally while looking up at the heavens with the headline "Looking for a miracle."
However, the link to that headline is simply an Associated Press report about the state of the race.
On a conference call this morning, Obama campaign officials Jim Messina and David Axelrod gave their pronouncements of Monday night's debate (surprise, they said their guy won), and the nature of the campaign with just two weeks to go.
Senior strategist Axelrod called Florida "an incredibly competitive state," amid consternation about recent polls.
"Anybody who thinks those states are in the bag, is half in the bag themselves," he said, also referring to the battleground states of Virginia and North Carolina.
Campaign manager Messina said Obama is tied or ahead in "every battleground state." He pooh-poohed the idea that Democrats are pulling out of any of those states, saying it's just the opposite — it's Romney who's in retreat.
"We've gotten him to pull resources out of Michigan, Pennsylvania … and New Mexico," Messina said.
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.