Obama Campaigns Hard to Enliven Democrats
- Associated Press
- Sep 29, 2010
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, using a flurry of interviews and lightning campaign stops, is trying to fire up Democratic voters to avoid what increasingly looks to be a Republican takeover in the House of Representatives and, perhaps, the Senate in November elections.
He was in New Mexico and Wisconsin on Tuesday trying to invigorate the Democratic base, young voters and independents who backed him when he swept into the White House in the 2008 presidential election.
On Wednesday, Obama was returning to the birthplace of his political triumph -- Iowa -- where his victory in the January 2008 caucuses put him on the path to the Democratic presidential nomination. The president will finish his four-state tour Wednesday afternoon with a meeting with voters in Richmond, Virginia.
In Des Moines, Iowa, Obama planned the latest in a series of "backyard discussions" with small groups of voters at a private home, trying to convince Americans that despite their discontent with the Democratic majority, a Republican takeover of Congress in the Nov. 2 election would be worse.
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