Obama using Charlotte convention to woo NASCAR voters

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Lynn Sweet

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Lynn Sweet The scoop from Washington

Obama using Charlotte convention to woo NASCAR voters By Lynn Sweet on January 17, 2012 10:00 AM

WASHINGTON--The Obama re-election team is using the Charlotte, N.C. nominating convention to target, woo and deliver NASCAR voters in key battleground states.

Convention organizers announced Tuesday the convention will kick off Labor Day at the giant Charlotte Motor Speedway, making public a plan that has been in the works for months to pitch President Obama to a demographic he will need in November. The speedway has a seating capacity of 140,000, which means that tens of thousands of non-convention delegates can be invited to the event, a massive organizing tool.

A Labor Day kick-off of course is also a hat tip to organized labor, a major part of the Democratic base.

The 2012 Democratic National Convention--usually four days--in modern times its only official function to rubberstamp a nominee already well known--will have official events at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte only two days. One of the days will be used to organize in battlegrounds North Carolina and Virginia--and to recruit volunteers in GOP leaning South Carolina.

[apillar]

Lol! I wonder if he will get booed as bad as Moochelle did, when she showed up at a NASCAR event recently?

[relictele]

What a futile effort - as if we needed another demonstration of his ineffectiveness. As usual, it’s done strictly for the media’s benefit.

[Redleg Duke]

Something about JugEars even trying to appeal to NASCAR fans is hillarious!

[Tax-chick]

The Obama voters in these parts are NOT the NASCAR audience. The whole thing should be hysterical spectacle ... we plan to go on vacation that week.

[chipper dave]

My thoughts exactly, if anyone shows up in the first place!

[jersey117]

Good luck with that. My guess is he’ll reverse on the pipeline before the convention. All part of his game.

[Qwackertoo]

That was my first thought when I read this . . . maybe he’ll get boo’d too.

[Coldwater Creek]

If I remember right, those drunken, uneducated rednecks booed Mrs. Obama when attended a race last season....../S

The only fans that might fall for their BS would be Jeff Gordon.

[erod]

I don't think NASCAR fans look or act like his ghetto or white guilt demographic, good luck wooing them Kenyan commie!

[Rummyfan]

Obama using Charlotte convention to woo NASCAR voters

ROTFLMAO!!!!

[laweeks]

As usual, it’s done strictly for the media’s benefit.

What benefit? More than likely, the asshat will get booed off the stage. What a sickass ba$tard!

I hope the Bible grabbin', gun toting, one-tooth hicks boo the pig out of the stadium.

[MestaMachine]

NOT in this life.

[DeaconRed]

"Something about JugEars even trying to appeal to NASCAR fans is hillarious!"

I agree and I hope he tries.
He has less of a chance than NOOT does of getting the NAACP vote.

[USMCWife6869]

Yea, that’s not gonna happen.

[liberalh8ter]

If he thinks he’s got a snowball’s chance in H$// of “wooing” NASCAR fans, he’s even more clueless than I thought.

[Russ]

Being the narcissist he is, he is incapable of thinking anyone could possibly not like him.

[sevinufnine]

Obama is simply confused! This is what he thinks NASCAR is:

[mmanager]

That would be like Obama going to Charlotte to woo Nascar fans. Oh wait, never mind.

[boomop1]

This is Onion isn’t it?