Posted on 12/02/2013 5:20:58 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
President Barack Obama won reelection last year warning voters about what he called an extreme Republican agenda that would roll back the social and economic victories of the previous years.
But that agenda is on the move in the states, and on the ballot in next years most competitive governors races all of them in places he won in both 2008 and 2012: Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine and Michigan.
The White House has committed to its first Democratic Governors Association fundraising event of the cycle and pledged to help candidates next year, people familiar with the discussions confirmed to POLITICO. But while the president can raise cash and draw out party loyalists, his low approval ratings could hurt Democrats at the polls.
Governors, including John Kasich in Ohio, Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Tom Corbett in Pennsylvania, won in 2010 in part because of the anti-Obama backlash and have worked to implement the exact agenda Obama campaigned against last year: lower taxes on the wealthy, government program reductions, voting rights challenges, labor cuts, gay rights opposition and moves against reproductive rights like defunding Planned Parenthood.
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Obama targets Scott Walker
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest pig list.
Is he headed to Mars with his lovely wife? That might help the Democrats.
I’d like to see all the Democrats head to Mars. In fact, I’d chip in for their tickets!
Meanwhile the GOP is targeting the Tea Party and vise versa.
Eggzackly.
This is a ‘personally popular’ president who must all but parachute into pinpoint locations with a load of gormless union sad sacks press-ganged into acting as more of that tiresome human scenery.
I remember when Reagan would visit a city. Not a school, not a PAC meeting, not a business convention. A city.
Obama has anti-coattails. He knows it, the candidates know it and the press know it even if they print words to the contrary.
PA needs to oust it’s Governor. He is a dirtbag.
[Zero] won reelection last year warning voters about what he called an extreme Republican agenda that would roll back the social and economic victories of the previous years.Thanks afraidfortherepublic.
And let someone like Allyson Schwartz get elected? Corbett needs desperately to improve his numbers though.
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