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Obama returns to his liberal base
By Jonathan Easley - 05/11/12 01:39 PM ET
President Obama is focusing his campaign efforts on the voters who turned out for him in force in 2008 and who he will need to mobilize again this year.
The president’s most high-profile move came this week when he reached out to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, a group with which he took 70 percent of the vote in 2008, by personally endorsing gay marriage.
But Obama has engaged in a sustained push to re-energize young voters. He won the support of 66 percent of voters age 18-29 against GOP rival Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who took 32 percent.
Polls and ballot initiatives suggest the same-sex marriage endorsement was a risky move — it’s presently unpopular in several battleground states, including North Carolina, where this week voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment banning gay marriage. Democrats will hold their national convention there in September.
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