1) The operatives believe the Obama campaign is unfocused, to its own detriment. They are looking at graphs and charts of what the Obama campaign is doing in various media markets. In most of them Team Obama is running multiple ads with different messages — a fact they interpret as the campaign’s having difficulty adjusting to a more competitive race than it had expected. The Romney campaign’s message discipline was contrasted to this cacophony…

3) The campaign is not worried about Arizona, or any of the other states that went for McCain.