Posted on 01/11/2012 11:17:27 PM PST by thecodont
As the Republican presidential candidates traipse through the early primary and caucus states, President Obama and Vice President Biden are keeping a tight focus on a handful of swing states that are among the biggest prizes in the 2012 general election contest.
Obama and Biden are keeping an official travel schedule that conveniently plunks them in battleground states that may decide the election.
Biden will head to Ohio on Thursday to talk about a bread-and-butter issue for the middle class: making college more affordable. On Friday, he’ll appear in the Philadelphia suburbs for a similar speech.
Winning Ohio and Pennsylvania, of course, would propel the Obama campaign far down the road toward the magic number of 270 electoral votes.
The Obama campaign has identified Ohio as one of several possible pathways to reelection – part of a Midwest strategy that also includes Iowa. Obama flew to Ohio just last week, his 17th trip to the state since becoming president.
A president’s time isn’t limitless, of course, which makes Biden an important surrogate. On Tuesday night, as Republican Mitt Romney notched an easy victory in the New Hampshire primary, Biden spoke by phone to New Hampshire supporters gathered at 25 house parties across the state. He took aim at Romney.
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Obama and Biden are keeping an official travel schedule that conveniently plunks them in battleground states that may decide the election.
How convienient, wait, they already said that.
bread-and-butter issue for the middle class: making college more affordable
I’m sick of this sh##
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