Plouffe, on McCain’s statements during the debate that Obama did not understand this or that national-security issue:

What some of these polls suggest is that [McCain’s] litany of “Barack Obama does not understand” — well, voters rejected it. We think actually that was a negative. Voters do not respond well to McCain saying that…It’s kind of fitting that Sen. McCain did his debate prep in the high school gym in Oxford yesterday, because it was kind of a sophomoric approach, this litany of “do not understand.”