More time on the Road by Obama means worse results for the Democrats!

The more time Obama spends on the road the worse it will get....especially if he allow anyone to ask any questions...his rallys are useless...all he does is talk...as we now know when it comes to action, there isn't any...at least none in a positive direction. And watch how many candidates show up to be with him...they all know he is poison! Keep the Republican base energized....It's time for a REAL CHANGE....It's time to take back America!


President Obama steps up campaigning with three weeks to go

CloseBy CAROL E. LEE & KENDRA MARR | 10/10/10 7:06 AM EDT

With just three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama will spend his time much as he did in the final weeks of his own campaign in 2008.

The president will be in Philadelphia Sunday, Miami Monday, and on the road or beaming from the Internet most days from now until November 2, as he tries to turn out his base supporters and convince skeptical independents of the importance of keeping Democrats in control of Congress.

“He has a spectacular God given gift of communication,” says Democratic strategist Paul Begala, a former aide to Bill Clinton. “I just want him to use it to communicate to the American people what Republicans stand for.”

But history may not be on Obama’s side, according to political scientist Ross K. Baker of Rutgers University, just as it wasn’t for Ronald Reagan in 1982, Clinton in 1994, and George W. Bush in 2006. “The White House would love to be able to change the direction of the campaign with well chosen words or well timed speeches,” he says, “but mostly they can’t.”

Obama’s pre-midterms itinerary will take him to all four corners of the country – from Florida to California to Washington and Massachusetts – and in between – to Ohio, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Oregon.

“In addition to raising money and drawing extensive local media coverage, the president is in a unique position to make a compelling case to Democrats and Independents, who got involved in politics for the first time during his 2008 campaign, that their votes are critically important in this election too," says White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Obama will headline rallies for the Democratic National Committee in Cleveland, Las Vegas and Philadelphia. He will be joined by his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, in Cleveland, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, who will join him there and in Philadelphia and Delaware, giving 2010 an added 2008 feel.

Obama’s appearances at the University of Wisconsin on Sept. 28 and Bowie State University in Maryland last week seemed right out of that playbook, drawing thousands of students and clearly aimed at reigniting the enthusiasm of a key component of his winning coalition – young voters and African Americans.

Obama himself seemed revitalized by the crowds. “The rallies are good for the president,” says Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. He’s so good at them.”

Still, the White House is realistic about how much enthusiasm for Obama carries over to other candidates. “An October rally headlined by President Obama complements - but is not a substitute for - a well-organized and well-executed campaign,” says Earnest.

And while the rallies are also good for the base, a larger question is whether Obama should continue, as Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell put it, to try to “persuade the persuadables” – independent voters and moderate or conservative Democrats who are leaning toward voting Republican.

Rendell applauds what was a major focus of the White House’s strategy in September – putting Obama in backyard meetings with small groups of voters. “The small, backyard stuff is important for persuasion,” says Rendell. “I think it’s good for his image.”

The problem is that these encounters with voters - designed, among other things, to show off Obama’s empathy for those most affected by the recession - have had mixed success. And some Democrats think it takes away from what should be Obama’s primary task so close to the election: energizing the base.

The day after his speech in Madison, where he had roused the crowd by saying, “I am telling you, Wisconsin, we are bringing about change, and progress is going to come,” Obama had a decidedly more difficult time convincing voters in a suburban Des Moines backyard that things were getting better.

When Mary Stier, mother of a 24-year-old college graduate who campaigned enthusiastically for Obama, told the president her son and his friends were struggling to find work and “losing their hope,” Obama launched into an explanation of the historic scope of the Great Recession. Then he listed his administration’s accomplishments, in health care, reforming student loans and the economy.

When he was finished, there was silence. Scanning the crowd, the president moved on to the next question.