Obama campaign manager Jim Messina warned supporters on Tuesday in an e-mail that Mitt Romney could potentially defeat them based on recent polling.
“According to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, if the general election were held today, we would lose to Mitt Romney,” Messina wrote. “Let me say that again: According to this poll, if the general election were today, we would lose.”
Messina said that while Obama was leading in other polls, the ABC/WaPo survey should shake Democrats out of complacency (and prompt them to open their pockets).
“We’re looking at a race that will be tighter than you think,” he wrote. “And the other side has groups ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tear down President Obama. It may be fun to point and laugh at the spectacle on the other side, but we have a massive amount of work to do and a dwindling amount of time to get it done.”
