Progressive Change Campaign Committee Threatens To Pull Obama Support Ahead Of 2012 - AP/HuffPo

[WillyT]

Progressive Change Campaign Committee Threatens To Pull Obama Support Ahead Of 2012
AP/HuffPo
07/15/11 03:19 PM ET

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CHICAGO — A liberal group upset over potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security delivered pledges Friday to President Barack Obama's national campaign headquarters threatening to pull its support. About a dozen people representing the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for Obama's re-election campaign if he cuts the entitlement programs.

"It's not a question of who they're going to support for president, they're going to vote for Barack Obama. It's a question of where their time and money is going to go," spokesman T. Neil Sroka said.

Obama has been taking heat from the left over the debt ceiling negotiations, in which he has been willing to target the long-standing programs. His approach is certain to sit better with independent voters, many of whom have told pollsters they want Washington politicians to work together to solve the big problems.

Sroka said the 200,000 people represent more than $17 million in donations to Obama's campaign in 2008 and about 2.6 million volunteer hours.

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More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/15/progressive-change-campaign-committee-obama_n_900155.html

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[damntexdem]

1. Obama has been shitting on his base.

And it may come back to hurt him.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. It's certainly been hurting us!

[girl gone mad]

6. In looking and his poll numbers today..

as well as the huge economic fumble he's in the midst of making (and all of his horrid past economic decisions), I think the election is going to be very challenging.

[LoZoccolo]

10. Obama enjoys higher approval from liberal voters. n/t

[WillyT]

13. Yeah, But You Approve Of Him Too

So there's that.

:hi:

[Luminous Animal]

2. For those of us honoring the virtual picket line at HuffPo... an alternative link

to the AP article.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/15/3772585/liberal-group-threatens-to-pull.html

[polichick]

3. The prez will probably wave this around as a badge of honor...

Somehow I doubt he'll care.

[nashville_brook]

4. my thought exactly.

[WonderGrunion]

7. So when the come groveling back to Obama and endorse him

can we rub it in your face?

[girl gone mad]

8. You guys are all id and no ego, aren't you?

[LoZoccolo]

9. Progressive Change Campaign Committee: automatic unrecommend n/t

[WillyT]

11. Hey LZ... How Long IS Your Automatic Unrec List ???

And does it have an automatic update?

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[StarsInHerHair]

12. I dont think his position 'is certain to sit better with Independents' THEY too

don't want their Social Security & Medicare to be just an illusion, they don't want it to be means-tested any more than Tea Party types. "Get your hands off my Medicare" & all that.