Team Obama Holding 2,000 Events This Weekend to Push for Campaign Volunteers
- Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:20pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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PHILADELPHIA (The Blaze/AP) — One year out from the 2012 election, President Barack Obama’s re-elect team is making a major push for volunteers — including a whopping 2,000 recruiting events this weekend alone.
It’s all part of an effort to rebuild the massive net of supporters that helped propel Obama in 2008. The president’s approval ratings have dropped precipitously and show no signs of rebounding amid a struggling economy.
This weekend’s events will include neighborhood gatherings, one-on-one meetings in coffeehouses, phone banks, voter registration drives, door-to-door voter canvassing and house parties throughout the country. Supporters anywhere in the country can find the gatherings closest to them simply by entering their zip code on Obama’s website.
In the Virginia and Maryland suburbs just outside Washington, D.C., several of the events listed are get-out-the-vote efforts for local candidates, all designed to bring Obama supporters together.
The goal is to mobilize the same flood of activists who were at the center of Obama’s coalition in 2008 — black and Latino voters, women and college students and voters entering the workforce — having them in place long before ballots are cast a year from now.
It’s important for the re-election campaign because now that the “Washington outsider” luster has worn off, some of Obama’s supporters have been left disillusioned by his first three years in office.
“Block by block, person by person, student by student, we are going to build the biggest grass-roots effort in American political history,” campaign manager Jim Messina vowed at an event Wednesday at the University of Pennsylvania to kick off a mobilizing effort on college campuses.
Obama supporters in 2008. (AP File Photo)
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.
Still, young voters, many of whom were galvanized in 2008 by the promise of ending the Iraq war, are not an easy sell this time.
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.
The students heard from Messina, White House policy adviser Melody Barnes and others who trumpeted the administration’s support for college aid and efforts to maintain health care coverage for young people.
Kyle Musto, a 17-year-old high school senior from West Philadelphia, said he was undecided as he considers his first vote in a presidential election.
“I have friends who are very opposed to Obama. I have friends who are very pro-Obama. I’m very open to anything,” he said.
Meetings like the one in Philadelphia are more common because Obama has avoided a Democratic challenger and his team can’t point to contested primaries and caucuses as reasons for people to get involved now. So they are finding motivation elsewhere.
As Obama has tried to win passage of his jobs agenda in Congress, party loyalists regularly receive emailed updates from campaign officials urging them to pressure Republican lawmakers by phone, email or Twitter. At the Philadelphia event, students were encouraged to text their ZIP code and the phrase “Greater Together,” the name of the young voter program, to the campaign so they could receive more information. Students were also asked to urge their Facebook friends to support the campaign.
The campaign is planning to use January’s Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary as an organizing tool, too.
Obama’s campaign has opened eight offices across Iowa and told reporters this week it had held more than 700 training sessions and made more than 100,000 phone calls to Iowans since the campaign opened in April. In New Hampshire, the campaign is opening its second office this weekend and has logged more than 90,000 phone calls and 2,200 one-on-one meetings across the state, all aimed at boosting turnout and support in 2012.
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Comments (192)
jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:55pmIf Barry gets elected for another 4 years – no one will need to worry about a job.
Report Post »There will be a depression with unemployment in the 50% or higher. hyper-inflation food shortages and just your general city riots and civil unrest – Kinda what the world globalist are looking forward to.
Even the moronic union does will be unemployed big time.
IN short it will be very very ugly
If you think this is an over statement – I feel sorry for your unprepared butt
Edct
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:53pmAbsolutely correct…talk to everone you know in the country and tell them to wake up and get this muslim terrorist communist illegal imposter out of our country.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:43pmI’ll volunteer to go door to door against Obama being re-elected…
Report Post »and I will capture on video any Obama ACRON person that comes to my door like the 2008 election.
I suggest that you all do the same.
db321
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:58pmIllegal – the sign in the photo stated – Ballets dropped of here – This is 100% illegal – The only person that is allowed to touch an Absent T Ballet besides the voter is the mailman – Totally illegal to drop off a filled out or unfilled out ballet anywhere other than the mailbox or post office. Obama did it last time and will do it again – because the Republicans don’t know how to out think a crook!
This is how Obama will be reelected in 2012.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:12pm@jakartaman
Report Post »I don‘t know how my post ended up at you’re link… but I suposse it was for a reason. I was replying to something completely different. I do agree with you however. None of my friends want to wake up and think everything I’m saying is non-sense. I’m stocked up with food and when they come a knocking…. I’ll be reminding them of my past warnings… and sending them down the road with a few cans of soup and another warning… I bet they won’t hear that warning as they walk away with my food. Time to tighten things up.
trueblueday
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 12:37amJust think Detroit – If he gets back in, that’s what the whole country will look like.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 12:45amBO’s grassroots are now weeds…TEA needs to use weed-b-gone!!!
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:16amA bad economy is just one of many reasons why his ratings are low and going lower. Voters need to remember alot of other disastrous deeds he has committed in the last 3 years. How about Obamacare being forced down our throats……or his protecting the Black Panthers from prosecution even when they threatened PA voters……or his refusal to obey a legal subpeona from Congress about Solyndra……or all the left-leaning executive orders he signed when Congress would not pass his legislation……or his calling a multitude of Americans “tea-baggers” (a dirty and insulting phrase) because they challenge his programs……or his cancellation of the long-honored National Day of Prayer in DC while at the same time he gave Muslims their own national day of prayer……or his bowing low to Muslim heads-of-state while giving Israel’s head-of-state the cold shoulder at the White House……or his refusal to protect our borders while murder and mayhem rage in Arizona and other border states……and the list goes on and on. Don’t forget, America!
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 7:19amForget about Obama, someone has got to figure out how to defeat Goerge Soros. His billions have funded and created the network that is kicking our a$$e$ day after day.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 2:21pmMaybe they should try water boarding. I hear that can get you on the other side right away.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges03
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 9:25pmThe E̶N̶D̶-̶T̶I̶M̶E̶ ̶R̶E̶V̶I̶V̶E̶D̶ ̶H̶O̶L̶Y̶ ̶R̶O̶M̶A̶N̶ ̶E̶M̶P̶I̶R̶E̶ NEW WORLD ORDER is coming (Europe-based) whether you like it or not … and you will NOT like it. The only question is whether America will be the world’s safe-haven it or not:
“The End Time HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (REBORN)! — Oh, Didn‘t You Notice It’s Arrival On November 3rd 2009?”
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGIey9PitCU
BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 11:07pmA good use of their time would be to search for the biggest group of lazy, foolish, unthankful DOPES this country has to offer simply because who the hell else would support this President.
Report Post »TheePolitinator
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 11:36pmYup like GB said, its sad to have to sit back and watch the United States commit suicide. And that’s exactly what is happening. People need to realize they are be manipulated and played. But with an average I.Q. of 56 that’s going to be a hard sell. Is 56 giving them too much credit? The hollyweirds and liberal media and all the uber rich won’t be affected by the agenda. that is until the agenda don’t need them anymore. Sad when all hell breaks loose and it will, they will be the first ones crying and hiding like the ignorant filth they truly are. I CAN’T WAIT!!!
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 5:52pmWe had all better get out and put a stop to this and ensure this muslim destoyer of American is not re-elected. There are enough crazy idiots out there wanting free stuff, which they somehow think they deserve, to help re-elect this traitor and that will pretty much end America as we know and love it.
Be involved, be vocal!
WOLVERINES!
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:55pmGrassroots? What?…….
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:21pmGee, what happened to the good old days when people beat down his door to volunteer?
Report Post »(snicker, snicker)
barber2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 6:24pmMIDWEST: Now his people are just beating down the front end of cars !
Report Post »Cat
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:50pmBuild a grass-roots effort?
Grass-root movements start with concerned citizens of America.
You don’t build the grass-root, BARRY, unless you‘re using useful idiots and someone else’s money!
Damn, that jackass is an upside down arrogant slob …
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:40pmI have shut down two local events by signing up under the guise of being a new black panther member and I will be bringing 10 of my buddies to your house……For some unknown reason both were canceled. Libs are racist …LOL
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:15pmGrassroots means digging up dead folks to vote. They voted in 2008 in massive numbers which U.S. overlooked. Bamster has got the pressure on him. GOOD. Let’s keep said pressure on him and increase it exponentialy. Grassroots can also mean he is scrapping the bottom for votes. I would like to see him gone before a vote. The Ds nor the Rs or gonna stand up for U.S. for impeachment.
Report Post »FireWolf
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:41pm@midwestmom LOL I thought the same thing…. there was a time when people lined up down the blocks to serve at the altar of the messiah
Report Post »His_Way
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 6:55pmThe red army misfits.
Report Post »camper
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:53pmObama has to get the age group and the minorities on his side because they just believe he will feed and clothe them in his utopian paradise. Take a look at the cities where the left is in power poverty reigns. Is that what they like? The Republican pary ended slavery and the Southern And Northern Democrats continue to this day keep people enslaved to hand outs. Please people wake up
Report Post »EddardStark
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:08pmI love the misunderstanding of history in that statement. Just because the party of Lincoln was called the Republicans doesn’t mean they are anything like modern Republicans.
Take a look in rural areas where poverty and the Republican party reigns. Apparently that is what you want, well, as long as the minorities aren’t around like they are in the cities right?
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:46pmOkay Ned, give us all a lesson about history…
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:54pmEDD: Surprised you didn’t mention all of statistics about the fine standing of cities which have been under the control of Democrats for years ? Wonder why ? Because they are all colossal failures where debt , crime and poor school scores thrive ! Oh, my. Now just who will you Lefties blame for that ? How about George Bush? Haven’t heard that old excuse for awhile.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:17pmEd you sound confused.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:27pmYou are right on, CAMPER!
Report Post »TPartyXpress
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 2:29pm@EddardStark — Obama Cleaners says you can come pick up you brain now. It’s been
Report Post »thoroughly washed.
FEMALL
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:53pmNow I just hope I don’t get an email. Or do I? Hmmm..wasn’t asked for my email….
Report Post »MangoT21
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:52pmI’m sorry…I thought grass roots events organized themselves? You know…without being associated with a political party or candidate…
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:41pmAnd funded by the tax payers.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:50pmNo. That is why the Far Left god created “community organizers.“ These are the guys that already have an organized agenda and then they ”organize” the people to become their little community agitators/bullies/ “victims” of the man, to get the agenda passed. Most of the actual community hasn’t a clue as to what is being done by the “organizers” and their agitators. That’s the beauty of OWS: it is out there in all of its “organized” ugliness for everyone to see. And, hopefully, to block its success ( you know that loopy “end greed” which is a big cover for their real goal: to end capitalism and America as we know it!
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:51pmChecked it out. Blue collar Ohio/Michigan retiree trailer community. Asked to bring your cell phone.
Report Post »camper
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:48pmIts going to prove who the real 99 percent are the working people in this Country who are going to turn out and defeat this Marxist regime.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:48pmOh, that old community organizer knows his stuff ! And they know who to target: you young, the naive , and those “ good job” kids who are looking for “stuff .“ Only hope there are enough decently raised kids out there to foil this effort at ”grass roots” registration of the brainwashed. ( Am sure every Occupy Camp-In has a voter registration booth.) Just the types to support the Far Left Democrats who now are in control of the Party. Wonder if any will Democrats will deflect from this Far Left camp ?
Report Post »Kylestarr
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:46pmIs this going to be Acorn round 2?
Also how is this being payed for, campane money or our tax money?
I would love to know and I bet some if not most of it is tax money.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:37pm@ KYLESTARR Yes to Q#1. Q#2,Tax money. Q#3, ALL our tax money.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:55amWhen I am on my comnputer there are constant popups for Obama, Or for voting no on issue 2.
Report Post »Kylestarr
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 1:08pmI know what you mean, Pamela Kay, I have recieved phone calls from the Unions thanking me for voteing no on issue 2 even before November 8th. In the call they already believe that I would vote no not knowing me then the Unions are going to wast more money by sending me a letter thanking me again for voteing no.
It is a good thing that I am not part of the Union for if I was and they were wasting my union dues this way I would be upset about it.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:46pmIsn’t Acorn, the unions and all the professional anarchist tied up with OWS?
Report Post »gbfreak
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:46pmNo useful idiots left. They are all at OWS and they have no money!!!!!!
Report Post »GodsDotr
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:43pmMatthew 15:14
Report Post »14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BJC
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:41pmI for one will be going to the site in my city. I will join in and I will be a citizen activist. I will record and prove that Obama and his party are a bunch of thugs and crooks. I would suggest more citizen activist go along and find out what they can find out. We need to do what Obama has done and that’s infilitrate from within and then destroy. This should be fun!!!
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:57pmBjc i would, but they would spot me a mile away, old, redeck, and wears an N.R.A. cap, and it doesnt stand for restaurant…….
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:40pmI wish him all the support he has shown to the American people. Too bad he hasn’t shown any.
Report Post »Lftcoaster
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:38pmDidn’t Obama just say at the G20 that he was not even looking at the 2012 election? Guess his “team” didn’t hear that part of his speech. Oh, wait a minute… I forgot for a fleeting moment that Obama is a Marxist liar.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:38pmGood. At least we know where the OWS crowd will be heading. If you believe that government was created to take care of your every need, YOU BIG BABY, then go ahead, join the Obama team. But if you believe in freedom, personal responsibility and actually working hard for your own success, not someone else’s, then work to elect a conservative candidate to the Presidency.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:19pmVote Cain.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:38pmHouston, “The Antichrist Has Landed”.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:37pmLooking for more OWS people right!
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:37pmObama has so much $$ behind him. I hope this all ends up blowing up in his face and he loses the election by a MAJOR landslide. We need to send a definite MESSAGE to Washington DC!
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:30pmJust make sure you tell all those foolish kids that if Obama sees another term, they will never get a job. I don‘t feel badly for any college kid who voted for Obama and can’t find a job, if you voted for Obama you don’t deserve one.
Report Post »His_Way
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 7:24pmYou think they might vote against HOAX and CHAOS this time? Not if it means a 40hr week of honest old fashioned WORK for an honest dollar. How boring.
Report Post »Donald
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:29pmMaybe we can talk about
Report Post »Solyndra
Fast and Furious
village idiot
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:28pmThe media has already joined up. How’s that tingle doing running up your leg Chris Mathews? The msnbc, abc,cbs,nbc left wing dirtbags are all set to push the black jimmy carter and kill any republican. Do these people wonder why the viewers have left them by the millions.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:55pmNo kidding .. even my local NBC affiliate has been pushing the OWS and Obama agenda .. they will not report on the filith .. just trying to rally more people to go Join up … ugh!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:26pmKyle Musto, a 17-year-old high school senior from West Philadelphia, said he was undecided as he considers his first vote in a presidential election.
“I have friends who are very opposed to Obama. I have friends who are very pro-Obama. I’m very open to anything,” he said.
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They should never let stupid people vote…
Report Post »garyM
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:39pmI try not to have stupid friends! If they are that stupid, they don’t need to be around my family!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:25pmHe will do anything to keep control of that office… everyone had better keep their eye on the left hand his right will be the distraction as his left does the dirty work
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:23pmSo these 2000 events are they in addition to the massive riots, or do they include them as well for usage as future riots as become needed for Obama?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:31pmI also .. wondered .. are they going to OWS ?
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:33pmwhat massive riots are you talking about end of the worlder?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:53pmSteel: Maybe you meant to say “end of order” as in “Law and order” which is what you Lefties are aiming for.
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