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Rx for Pa. Dems' turnout worries: Michelle Obama
Philly.com ^

Posted on 10/15/2014 7:56:13 PM PDT by Phillyred

First lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday urged a partisan crowd in Northwest Philadelphia to "step up" and work to elect Democrat Tom Wolf governor. Her visit was aimed at fighting off a worry of party strategists - that Wolf's solid and long-standing lead in the polls, coupled with the typical midterm falloff in turnout among core Democratic voters, could be disastrous Nov. 4. "If we want change here in Pennsylvania, then we need to take responsibility," Obama told several hundred cheering people at a morning rally at Dorothy Emanuel Recreation Center in East Mount Airy. President Obama, too, will come to Pennsylvania for Wolf in the last week of the campaign as part of a seven-state swing, the White House said Wednesday. Campaign workers with clipboards moved through the rec center's gym, signing up people to take shifts making phone calls or knocking on doors, and Michelle Obama twice recited the Wolf campaign's web address. She said that Wolf, a York businessman who turned around the family kitchen cabinet company with worker-friendly policies such as profit-sharing, would not accept "crumbling classrooms" and teacher shortages. It was a reference to cuts in state education funding early in Gov. Corbett's term that still are being felt in many school districts. In addition, Obama said, Wolf will fight for an increase in the minimum wage, work for pay equity for women, and safeguard the right of women to make family-planning decisions for themselves. Wolf has led Corbett by an average of 15 percentage points in public polls, though some Republicans say their private polls have the race tightening to a single-digit deficit.

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1 posted on 10/15/2014 7:56:13 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

Sending the Mooch in to campaign for a shoo-in. LOL! Don’t want to embarrass the Mooch.


2 posted on 10/15/2014 7:59:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Don't laugh!....the turn out will be 208% and not ONE vote for the opponent!.....Double last elections results!...Why would anyone question that now????...sour grapes..../s
3 posted on 10/15/2014 8:24:12 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Don’t want to embarrass the Mooch.

The Mooch is "self embarrassing"

....its called "Leading from Behind"

4 posted on 10/15/2014 8:25:28 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: Phillyred

I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!


5 posted on 10/15/2014 8:43:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Phillyred
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6 posted on 10/15/2014 10:11:37 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Phillyred

“Campaing workers with clipboards moved through the crowds”

Excuse me sir, ma’am. Do you have any dead relatives or know any prisoners or undocumented immigrants?


7 posted on 10/15/2014 10:32:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Phillyred

Let Obola bring his big gun to Pa and walk through the Pocono woods looking for Eric Frein.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 2:41:35 AM PDT by Renegade
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