Obama set to launch October midterm push

[alp227]

Source: The Hill

President Obama will kick off his midterm campaign push in October, according to senior administration officials, with events benefitting individual vulnerable Democratic candidates.

Obama will ramp up his public campaign efforts on behalf of congressional Democrats, but — in a possible acknowledgement of the president's flagging approval ratings — the effort will be less intensive than what President Bush undertook during the 2002 midterm election. That fall, Bush made more than 40 campaign speeches for dozens of congressional candidates.

At the same time, the White House says it feels better about the midterm elections than it did just one month ago.

One senior administration official said there was a clear path for Democrats to hold the Senate, and that the White House was encouraged that every tossup race remains within the margin of error. The official said Republican chances of a pickup in the Michigan open seat race were fading, while vulnerable senators like Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) were maintaining narrow leads. Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Rep. Bruce Braley has bolstered his lead in Iowa.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/217785-obama-set-to-launch-october-midterm-push

[global1]

1. Not Only Does The President Need To Get Out There But Every Chance They Get All Dems Need To......

stress the importance of this Nov election and encourage people to GOTV.

When I say every chance they get - I mean if they are on any of the MSM news shows or local media shows in their state or district - they need to stress the importance of this Nov election and encourage people to GOTV.

I'm not hearing this from any of the Dems right now. We still have a month and a half to get the word out. They need to do this. To tell you the truth I'm very disappointed in them right now that they didn't initiate this on their own.

They shouldn't have to be told. This is a watershed election - it is important to the country that we have a big turnout and we maintain the Senate and take the House.

The Repubs are on the wrong side of just about every issue. I can't figure out why they are so confident that they will take the Senate and maintain the House. They've frosted just about every interest group in this country - except the banksters, the 1%er's and the corporations.

The rest of us outnumber them. We should be able to turn this around - but we need to get the electorate fired up. To to many important issues on the table that could be taken care of if we can GOTV.

[JDDavis]

2. DSCC, DNC, all other campaigns should have started

3 months ago

Registration, ID's for free, all sorts of stuff should have been starting in June.

[JimDandy]

3. I seem to recall that Bush was almost invisible in the 2006 midterms.

That would be the correct correlation: six years into each of their presidencies. Why would they want to use 2002 for Bush? Hmmm.

[cilla4progress]

4. If I were advising Pres Obama

I would say, "LOOSEN UP!" What do you have to lose? People want real and they can tell when they are seeing it.

I would say the same thing to Hillary.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. If you had watched any of his stump speeches

which apparently you haven't, then you wouldn't have needed to make this recommendation.

[cilla4progress]

7. I have ...

I'm talking about everything including for example his primetime speech about Isis last week.

Sticking by it.


BTW, unnecessary snark. You are the type of person that makes DU unfun.

"Have a good day! Buh Bye."

[strawberries]

9. unnecessary snark....

down right cruel, but you took it like a champ

[BumRushDaShow]

11. So you want the President to address the nation

with some ill-timed jokes after 3 men were decapitated too?

There is a time and place and style to fit the situation. A good public speaker learns not to confuse that time and place.

[strawberries]

13. ya, that's what I want

happy now?

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It is you who is self-satisfied. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

10. So you expect him to laugh it up

and joke in a speech dealing with a subject related to 3 people people being beheaded? There is a time for "loosening up" and a time for gravitas, and good public speakers know the difference. Unless I misinterpreted what you meant by "loosen up" and "real".

Disagreements have nothing to do with DU being "fun" or "unfun" and I apologize for any "snark" that you perceived.

[DCBob]

5. sounds good. I suspected this was coming.

He and his team know the risks of a house and senate controlled by the Republicans. We simply cant let it happen.

[Dopers_Greed]

8. Hopefully his PR campaign will do a better job it has through the rest of his presidency

Instead of the usual gaffe-after-gaffe.

[bigworld]

12. Seems like he only gets fired up before an election

How about working for the people who voted for you in every month that's not October?