Posted on 01/24/2014 4:40:03 PM PST by mandaladon
Democratic campaign operatives have been getting worried that the White House wasn’t doing enough to help them in the midterms, and that President Barack Obama didn’t care enough to change that. Friday, Obama provided the answer: David Simas, a longtime aide who returned to the White House after running polling and focus groups for the re-election campaign, was named director of a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
The re-establishment of an internal political operation marks a significant shift for the White House, and the latest step in a 2014 West Wing reorientation that’s aimed at quickly making up for years of lost time, both on Capitol Hill and around the country. Repeatedly, in public and private, Obama has been calling the November elections a top priority. He knows what’s at stake: Democrats losing the Senate would mean a daily barrage of misery for him and the effective death of his agenda. Winning the House — long shot though it is — could allow him to completely transform his legacy in his final two years. But one month into the year and a third of the way through the first fundraising quarter, Democratic operatives on campaigns and at the central campaign committees were still waiting to hear what that would amount to. Many didn’t even know whom to call to ask for an update. High-level Democratic campaign aides asked about the White House political operation responding with variations of: “What operation?” or “It’s a good question.”
Simas, whom the White House is portraying as a one-stop shop for all things midterms, is the answer: he’ll be the point of contact on requests for presidential visits, fundraiser appearances and sign-offs on direct mail and email blasts.
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Buncha lemmings.
So we the taxpayers are paying to elect Democrats?
So we the taxpayers are paying to elect Democrats?
[ So we the taxpayers are paying to elect Democrats? ]
Ok Rip Van Winkle.... FDR was elected before you started your little nap...
It has been this was since the mid 1930s...
How did the democrats in the White House get taxpayer money appropriated for only their advancement???
This has to be unconstitutional! That said, I agree that Obama cares only about Obama; his daughters and wife are far down the list.
Rinos have let the left get away with so much, including murder, that democrats know republicans won’t stop them from doing whatever they want.
The government is now officially a wing of the Democrat Party
Just what this nation needs, another gubmint bureaucracy.
The fascists have to do something with the unlimited data they are gathering on citizens.
What has been missing from American politics is a true patriotic American alternative.
The GOP and Dems are both in bed with globalists.
We need a true competitor. FOR American companies, and for American growth.
Now. Stop selling out to China and elsewhere. Bring back American jobs now.
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