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Plouffe Downplays Significance Of Today's Outcomes

Jillian Bandes | November 03, 2009 1:46 PM

David Plouffe, Obama's campaign advisor, dismissed the notion that VA, NJ and NY could be bellweathers for 2010 on the Today Show:

These are local races, there's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next November.

You'd better hope those 18,000 lifetimes are enough to get your poll numbers up...