Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told John Harwood that Arizona and even Georgia could be swing states in 2012.
Q: Are we looking at the same dozen swing states that we’ve been talking about for several cycles now?
A: I’m sure we’re not. Four years ago, you all thought that Plouffe and I were crazy when we said we can win North Carolina. And now we so much believe we can win it that we’ve put the Democratic National Convention there. Virginia is now one of the bellwethers of this country. States are changing because of demographics. Arizona is going to be one of the toss-up states. We’re looking at Georgia. One question about Georgia is, it’s just an expensive media market. But we’re looking at both those places.
