A year out, Obama campaign makes volunteer push

WASHINGTON -- Grass-roots volunteers flocked to Barack Obama last time. This time, the president's campaign is in recruiting mode.

Facing no primary challenger, Obama is trying to rebuild a massive organization of supporters to help boost his efforts next year in the face of a struggling economy and weakened political standing.

Obama's campaign has spent the past week holding about 1,500 events around the nation, from small neighborhood gatherings to one-on-one meetings in coffeehouses, marking the one year to go before the incumbent Democrat faces the electorate. The events, including a chunk of them this weekend, comprise the nuts-and-bolts of a campaign: local phone banks, voter registration drives, door-to-door voter canvassing and house parties.

The campaign held the Philadelphia round-table discussion to launch a program aimed at mobilizing young voters on college campuses. Messina told about 250 college and high school students and others watching online that there were 8 million registered voters between the ages of 18 and 21 who weren't old enough to vote in 2008 but would be harnessed to support the president.

Yet, the young voters, many of whom were galvanized by ending the Iraq war in 2008, are not an easy sell this time.

In 2008, Obama won voters between the ages of 18-29 by a margin of about 2-to-1, but polling has shown some signs of softening support as many recent college graduates face high levels of unemployment.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/05/4032280/a-year-out-obama-campaign-makes.html#ixzz1coxjbgPa

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WANT TO GET RE-ELECTED
An old West Virginia Hillbilly saying:
“You cannot get the water to clear up
Until you get the pigs out of the creek.”

*SOME OF YOU MAY APPRECIATE THIS AND SOME OF YOU MAY NOT.*
*I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR SENDING THIS BECAUSE OF IT’S TRUTH.*

*If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, Which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, Would you have approved?*

*If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again Within 10 years, Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law
That he admitted he never even read, Would you think that he is just an Ignorant hot head? *

*If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico And sued a state in the United States to force that state To continue to allow illegal immigration, would you question his patriotism And wonder who’s side he was on? *

*If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps Like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *

*If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work By arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling On companies that have one of the best safety records of any industry Because one foreign company had an accident, Would you have agreed? *

*If any other of our presidents had used a forged document
As the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *

*If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, Would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept He is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men Behind the scenes? *

*If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars To take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings Of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had made a joke
At the expense of the Special Olympics, Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive And incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him A thoughtful and historically significant gift, Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of England An iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it A proud moment for America ? *
And thenObama returns Churchill Bust to England:
Bristish Press sees snub.

*If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference To the nonexistent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off As a minor slip? *

*If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers With people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, Would you have approved? *

*If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States, wouldn’t you have had second thoughts about his capabilities? *

*If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk. *

*If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn’t you have winced in embarrassment? *

*If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?*

*If any other of our presidents’ administrations had okayed
Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11? *

*If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? *

*If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America,
would you have ever approved. *

*If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? *

*So, tell me again,
what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? *
*Can’t think of anything?
Don’t worry.
He’s done all this in 24 months –
so you have that much time to come up with an answer.*

*Every statement and action in this email is factual
and directly attributable to Barrack Hussein Obama.
Every bumble is a matter of record and completely verifiable. *
AND NOW—
HE ACTUALLY WANTS US TO RE-ELECT HIM.
WAKE UP AMERICA 2012 IS UPON US.

*I WONDER HOW MANY OF YOU
WILL FORWARD THIS ? *
I AM BECAUSE I CAN NOT AFFORD TO TAKE A CHANCE
ON THIS GUY FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS . . ..
{ I HAVE GRANDKIDS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT }

*”All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”*

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