by John McCormick
DENVER -- Other than those attached to dollar signs that must be reported to federal election officials, getting the Obama campaign to talk about numbers is often almost impossible.
Campaign manager David Plouffe is a numbers junkie, but the campaign is typically secretive on questions seemingly as simple as even how many workers are now in the Chicago headquarters.
So, it was interesting to read a dispatch yesterday from Radio Iowa's O. Kay Henderson about an appearance before the Iowa delegation by Jim Messina, Obama's campaign chief of staff.
Messina told the Iowans on Wednesday that "as of this morning, we have 2,504 staff." He also told the group that Obama's campaign has four PhD statisticians working in Chicago to crunch possible turnout, demographics and other metrics.
The full Radio Iowa dispatch is linked here.
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