Posted on 10/13/2014 10:18:23 PM PDT by Nachum
Editor's Note: ABC News published an astonishing admission today, revealing that President Barack Obama has not attended a single public campaign event for a Democratic candidate as the party heads into a white-hot election season.
Just three weeks to go until the midterm elections and with control of the Senate hanging in the balance, candidates are scrambling toward the finish line.
One key figure, however, has been largely absent: President Obama.
President Obama has appeared at zero public campaign events this cycle, opting instead to tap into his fundraising prowess to boost Democratic candidates behind closed-doors.
Obama’s absence on the trail underscores how the president has become a political liability for many candidates. With his approval rating down in the dumps, a personal visit from Obama would likely hurt rather than help his party’s cause in the hotly contested states.
Obama is expected to step-up his public presence on the campaign trail in these final weeks, but likely only in deep blue states. He will attend his first public campaign rally for a candidate this Wednesday when he stumps for Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy.
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He’s so wonderful that they’re afraid they’ll look bad- in comparison.
Yeah, that’s the ticket...
At this stage, Presidents Harding, Johnson, Nixon and Buchanan weren’t too busy campaigning, either.
Yep...beat me to it...
They may call it a “campaign event”, but if you count up all the “fundraisers” he has been to, you’ll see the balance of his time in office has been well spent, between those events and “golf”...
Otherwise, he seems very bored at his first “real” job...
-PJ
Yeah, but “country club” is pronounced “bath house” I’m afraid.
His multitude of fundraisers aren’t considered “campaign events’?
He was just here in LA w Gwenth Paltrow .... And many others.
yeah, but at this stage, they’re all dead.
(Couldn’t resist)
Does anyone ever ask what Obama’s “fundraising prowess” is based on?
I assume it’s all basically bribery and quid pro quo, but of course the press isn’t interested.
I heard rumors about places like that in San Francisco...
He has done his duty for the radicals. Now, he has been told
to just breeze on through until your next command comes. The
radicals are getting much, aren’t they.
Don’t get excited ... This just means that the Dems are on top of their numbers: Obama is helpful in fundraising, but not in generating the vote.
It’s often reported as if: Obama, tail tucked between legs, can’t appear with Senatorial candidate because he might hurt ... actually the Dems are planning campaign appearances with an eye to the numbers. The Senate candidate and Obama are in agreement about the utility of joint appearances.
Still bringing in the dough though for the leftist!!!
Nobody wants the dumb ass around anymore. America’s close to truly hating him.
Bull. Raising money is campaigning. He is raising money from the 1% like crazy.
And Occupy Wall Street is silent.
I wouldn’t hire this scumbucket to wash my dog.
He is coming to Bridgeport ct.Wednesday for a rally for the leftist jerk governor Malloy,who is Obama’s mini me,he was elected last time by a very slim margin,the difference being when lost ballots were found in the trunks of cars in you guessed it Bridgeport ct.
So come to Central H.S. in Bridgeport Wednesday to see the two lying leftist scumbags
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