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Obama using Charlotte convention to woo NASCAR voters
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| Lynn Sweet
Posted on 01/18/2012 6:43:08 AM PST by KeyLargo
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.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2012; nascar; obama; votes
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:43:14 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Lol! I wonder if he will get booed as bad as Moochelle did, when she showed up at a NASCAR event recently?
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:44:28 AM PST
by
apillar
To: KeyLargo
What a futile effort - as if we needed another demonstration of his ineffectiveness. As usual, it’s done strictly for the media’s benefit.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:45:53 AM PST
by
relictele
(Green energy is neither)
To: KeyLargo
Something about JugEars even trying to appeal to NASCAR fans is hillarious!
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:46:53 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: KeyLargo
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:47:14 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Be the one who gets it done (instead of a useless drone)!)
To: apillar
My thoughts exactly, if anyone shows up in the first place!
To: KeyLargo
Good luck with that. My guess is he’ll reverse on the pipeline before the convention. All part of his game.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:47:55 AM PST
by
jersey117
(Perry 2012)
To: apillar
That was my first thought when I read this . . . maybe he’ll get boo’d too.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:48:01 AM PST
by
Qwackertoo
(Gingrich/West 2012)
To: KeyLargo
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.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:48:11 AM PST
by
Coldwater Creek
(He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
To: KeyLargo
I don't think NASCAR fans look or act like his ghetto or white guilt demographic, good luck wooing them Kenyan commie!
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:48:27 AM PST
by
erod
(I've had enough hope for 4 years, it's time for a change.)
To: KeyLargo
Obama using Charlotte convention to woo NASCAR votersROTFLMAO!!!!
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:48:58 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: relictele
As usual, its done strictly for the medias benefit.What benefit? More than likely, the asshat will get booed off the stage. What a sickass ba$tard!
I hope the Bible grabbin', gun toting, one-tooth hicks boo the pig out of the stadium.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:49:05 AM PST
by
laweeks
To: KeyLargo
To: Redleg Duke
"Something about JugEars even trying to appeal to NASCAR fans is hillarious!" I agree and I hope he tries.
He has less of a chance than NOOT does of getting the NAACP vote.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:50:27 AM PST
by
DeaconRed
(Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968)
To: KeyLargo
Yea, that’s not gonna happen.
To: KeyLargo
If he thinks he’s got a snowball’s chance in H$// of “wooing” NASCAR fans, he’s even more clueless than I thought.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:52:05 AM PST
by
liberalh8ter
(I don't like what the world has become....)
To: liberalh8ter
Being the narcissist he is, he is incapable of thinking anyone could possibly not like him.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:54:24 AM PST
by
Russ
(Repeal the 17th amendment)
To: KeyLargo
Obama is simply confused! This is what he thinks NASCAR is:
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:55:18 AM PST
by
sevinufnine
(Sevin - "If we do not fight when we know we can win, we'll have to fight when we know we will lose")
To: KeyLargo
That would be like Obama going to Charlotte to woo Nascar fans. Oh wait, never mind.
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:56:59 AM PST
by
mmanager
(Reagan Revolution + Republican Revolution = Bury Obama in 2012 - Go Newt!)
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
01/18/2012 6:57:18 AM PST
by
boomop1
(term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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