Show Me the Money! Obama Raises Campaign Cash in Missouri While Democratic Senate Candidate is in Washington
EmailABC News’ Karen Travers reports: Tonight in St. Louis, President Obama is raising some campaign cash for the Democratic Party and for Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., an early supporter of Obama’s presidential bid who is not up for re-election until 2012. Not attending tonight’s events? Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the likely Democratic candidate in this year’s election to replace retiring Republican Sen. Kit Bond. The race for Missouri’s open seat is shaping up as a bitter, close battle between Carnahan and Republican Rep. Roy Blunt. Democrats view the race as a prime opportunity to pick off a Republican seat by painting Blunt as a Washington insider while Republicans will try to link Carnahan to Obama and his agenda. With that fierce showdown looming in the Show Me State, it is curious that Carnahan will be out of town when the president pays a visit. As Obama heads west, Carnahan flies east for meetings in Washington, part of her official Secretary of State duties. What is Carnahan missing back in her home state today? A possible photo opportunity with the president at the airport, a place on stage at the president’s health care remarks and a chance to mingle with top Democratic donors at tonight’s fundraising events. Democrats say this is not about dissing the president, but instead chalk it up to a scheduling conflict. "Robin will be meeting with financial regulators and policymakers to demand strong financial reforms to hold Wall Street bankers accountable,” her spokesperson Linden Zakula said in a statement. Blunt’s campaign said that Carnahan may be in Washington but she “can't hide from her rubber-stamp support of Barack Obama.” “Carnahan said she supported government-run health care, cap and tax and the failing so-called "stimulus" bill,” said Rich Chrismer, spokesman for leading Republican Senate contender Roy Blunt. “Perhaps the liberals in Missouri are not liberal enough for her which is why she's spending her time in Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, New York City and Washington, D.C.” White House and Democratic Party officials would not say where Obama will campaign over the next few months or which candidates have requested his time, but insist there is a large stack of requests for his time. In fact a future appearance sharing the stage with Carnahan may very well be on his 2010 campaign tour. "[Carnahan's] people have asked if President Obama would please appear with her in a future event soon," White House spokesman Reid Cherlin told reporters on Air Force One en route to St. Louis. "We are working on that now." In the 2008 presidential campaign, Missouri was one of the key targeted battleground states that Obama was unable to flip from Red to Blue. It was also the state with the fewest votes separating Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Obama, with McCain winning by just 3,903 votes. Obama has already hit the road to stump and raise cash for Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Co., and tonight’s events bring the president’s total to seven fundraisers so far this year. Party officials say that Obama will increase his presence on the campaign trail as the midterm elections get closer and he will be “aggressively” working for Democratic candidates where and when he can be helpful. — Karen Travers *This post has been updated.
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I know what Obama can do to win the crowd over and gain support for OCare.
Quote Nancy Pelosi.
“We have to pass the HC Bill to find out what’s in it”.
If that doesn’t instill confidence I don’t know what will.
Well he could tell that lie again about saving a trillion dollars in the first ten years. Obama was only off $800B.
Posted by: mick | March 10, 2010, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
Smart move by Carnahan.
Don’t be seen with Obama.
The kiss of death.
Posted by: kyle | March 10, 2010, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
I like how Obama is “focusing like a laser beam” on jobs.
More like Obama is focusing like a laser on his legacy.
I guess he figures it’s easier to get a health care bill than to create jobs.
Businesses don’t trust where Obama is going, and neither do consumers.
Approval at 43% today.
More like Bush everyday.
Posted by: cassie | March 10, 2010, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
Keep it up! Everyone he has campaigned for has lost. Looks like McCaskil will be next just like Corzine, Deeds and Coakley.
Posted by: jane | March 10, 2010, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm
Please keep a count of how many Dems want to be in town when Obama arrives to raise money for them. Other than a “lame duck” like Harry Reid who in the world wants to be seen with this guy. He is poison, just ask all those who received his lucky touch.
1) Marcia, I mean Martha Coakley
3) Creigh Deeds
3) Jon Corzine
4) Arlen, (goodbye) Specter
5) Pittsburgh Steelers (Art Rooney made a mistake, pre season endorsement, worst season in years)
6) Indianapolis Colts ( Obama public ally picked them)
7) USA Mens Hockey Team Obama bet Canadian P.M. )
8) USA Women Hockey Team
9) Chicago Olympic Committee
10)Copenhagen
11) Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, all enjoy their greatest success after targeting by Obama)
Welcome to future Dems!
Posted by: pauldia | March 10, 2010, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
Posted by: cassie | Mar 10, 2010 12:40:24 PM
The President is most certainly focusing on jobs – too bad the Republicans (other than Scott Brown and a few others with brains) vote against everything being done (the $140 billion jobs bill that would provide tax breaks for businesses is a prime example).
By the way, the President’s approval rating has been holding steady at about 50% for several months now according to the poll of polls.
Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, fell to 35% during his first term – bad economies are hard on Presidents. Obama is doing very well in that context.
Scott Brown
Posted by: tierra | March 10, 2010, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
@tierra…. He did not need one Republican vote he had filibuster proof majorities, HIS party ran from him. In addition, Republicans will campaign against the massive failure and debt creation oxymoron named “stimulus” Hows that saved and created working for ya?I saw beautiful road sculptures last night lining the highway courtesy of the stimulus. Bet this saved or created two jobs. Maybe even in a Congressional district that actually exists!!!
Posted by: pauldia | March 10, 2010, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
@tierra…. He did not need one Republican vote he had filibuster proof majorities
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Nonsense, in order to avoid a filibuster on the JOBS bill, the President needed support from the Republicans.
Fortunately, Brown and a few other Republicans broke rank and supported the bill.
The remainder of the Republicans voted against the legislation to reduce taxes on business!
That shows you where the Republicans are coming from.
Posted by: tierra | March 10, 2010, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
Apparently over 2,000 people showed up for an anti-Obamacare rally today in St. Charles MO. Of course why would that be worth reporting?
Posted by: bct | March 10, 2010, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm
Are we not glad we elected a campaigner-N-Chief? Next time we need to elect a President to govern,maybe?..At least Robin will be in Washington so as not to appear with Obama,but McCaskill will be his shoe wipe to night,and they will go out together in 2012.
Posted by: stormerF2 | March 10, 2010, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
bct – 10,000 people showed up in DC to protest insurance profits. Didn’t see that either. So your point is? And a March 4 Economist poll says 53 percent to 47 percent support Obama’s proposals on health care. See, you can always find polls to fit your needs. But let’s face it, a poll of 1000 people is supposed to be representative of a country of 300 million. Think not. Polls are useless – just like republicans!
Posted by: pamp205 | March 10, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
50,000.00 a plate to see him and hear McCaskil. The stimulus is realy working for these 50,000 a plate donators is it not? McCaskil is one of th biggest LIARS here in Missouri. She says what ever she has to to get pass heated questions. She once said in a town hall meeting that she can speak to us all in a moms voice if we do not behave. Go to H— Claire. Your gone as soon as your election time is up. You are the biddest liar in the house. You once siad you would not vote for any bill if it had pork!! Well oink oink Calire” you did
Posted by: Jim Rod | March 10, 2010, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
pauldia – I see you’ve been living in the nether regions of glennbeckistan. Too funny! Hey, did you hear that Rush was moving to Costa Rica if health care passed. Guess he’s too high to know that C.R. has universal health care. Beckie’s interview with Massa was a bonanza of an embarrassment. Guess he figures he wasn’t embarassing enough so had to bring someone else on. LOL! And get over it, repubs. Obama will win in ’12 because you have who? Slick Mitt, Palm Pilot Palin and who else? And how’s old Scott Brown working out for you? Repubs, always good for a laugh!!!
Posted by: pamp205 | March 10, 2010, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
pamp205 “Too funny! Hey, did you hear that Rush was moving to Costa Rica if health care passed. ” He didn’t say taht take a look at the transcript. I know this was parroted on MSNBC, Joy Behar etc, but what he said is, If Obama care passed he would be going to Costa Rica for Health Care, and then coming back. He can pay a private hospital directly there. I guess his position isn’t much different from the Canadian provincial official who chose Florida for heart surgery rather than Canada’s Obama care. This fellow will have to join Rush if this monstrosity is shoved down Americas throat.
Posted by: pauldia | March 10, 2010, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
Guess Oxy is cheaper in Costa Rica. And his exact words were – “I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented, I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.”
Posted by: pamp205 | March 10, 2010, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
pamp205…. guess I’ll do what we all do for Liberals WORK….here is the transcript”Well, that has been turned into I’m going to leave the country for Costa Rica and move there if Obamacare passes. I’ve had all kinds of reporters: “Are you serious? Do you really mean this?” So I’ve had to patiently explain today to people who do not bother to stay informed on this stuff what the genesis and the primary context of my comment was. I said, “Look, there are insurance companies who don’t want to be put out of business.” We’ve talked to them on the program. I’ve talked to them privately. They are establishing health care clinics with quality doctors in places like Costa Rica. They’re going to continue to sell policies to people who have the ability to fly down there and get treatment. If I have to get thrown into this massive government health care insurance business and end up going to the driver’s license office every day when I need to go to the doctor, yeah, I’ll go to Costa Rica for treatment, not move there. So they’re just in a tizzy out there, between Costa Rica and Eric Massa. So — (laughing) — it’s going to be a fun day. Heck, it already is a fun day. ”
Now quit making me work for your ignorance. In addition don’t assume I’m Republican, I am not, and do not assume I watch Glen Beck, I work until 7:00. I don’t have the opportunity. So who is good for laughs? How’s that hopey changy thing goin?
Posted by: pauldia | March 10, 2010, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
Why Democrats Don’t Care about $9.7 Trillion Debt
Dennis Prager
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
As reported by The Washington Post, “President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.”
CNN adds, “Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.”
The Post continues: “The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) and the White House (are) … both predicting a deficit of about $1.5 trillion this year — a post-World War II record at 10.3 percent of the overall economy. But the CBO is considerably less optimistic about future years, predicting that deficits would never fall below 4 percent of the economy under Obama’s policies and would begin to grow rapidly after 2015.
Posted by: Billy Bob | March 10, 2010, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Obama? Campaigning?
Has this junior Senator ever worked a day in his life? We know that he, or any of his senior staff, have ever had to meet a payroll, or lay people off, or run a lemonade stand. So it is entirely possible that he actually doesn’t know what it is like to put in a full work week.
Posted by: enough already | March 10, 2010, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
“”"”"And a March 4 Economist poll says 53 percent to 47 percent support Obama’s proposals on health care.”"”"
Posted by: pamp205
Obama’s “proposals” not this bill. Nice try rookie. It’s quite odd that Obama will accept donations of $50K per plate from any business person that can afford it, but is completely against any business spending money on advertisements against him…..
Posted by: lfrichar | March 10, 2010, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm
Obama’s coming to town to campaign? No wonder Robin Carnahan left town!
Posted by: LongT | March 10, 2010, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
I wonder what the atmosphere is like at a Democrat fundraiser these days. I’m guessing there is a lot of heavy drinking ,little eye contact and tons of whispered comments regarding the current leaders.
Posted by: rednorth | March 10, 2010, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
Obama spent his time as a Junior Senator running for President. If he couldn’t do his Senate job, how can he possibly do this one? Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Biden, Dean, Kerry, Kennedy and the other liberals based the entire 2008 campaign on lies. Obama is campaigning again, trying to get approval for Obamacare. This corrupt administration simply cannot be trusted.
Posted by: CAMPAIGNER-IN-CHIEF? | March 10, 2010, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm
As a voter in MO., I would love to see BO come to MO. to support Carnahan-KISS OF DEATH! Reminds me to send money to Blunt.
Posted by: stevemb12 | March 11, 2010, 12:04 am 12:04 am
As a voter in MO., I would love to see BO come to MO. to support Carnahan-KISS OF DEATH! Reminds me to send money to Blunt.
Posted by: stevemb12 | March 11, 2010, 12:04 am 12:04 am
Progressives under the guise of the Democrat party are putting this country through an agonizing extended version of hell.
Pelosi says they will tell us what’s in the HC bill AFTER it has passed! Does she really think we’re that ignorant?
Obama is still in campaign mode and has lots of “bribe” money in order to buy votes! Will he ever start doing his job?
Posted by: CAMPAIGNER-IN-CHIEF? | March 11, 2010, 1:13 am 1:13 am
So Obama comes to town to raise money for McCaskill, who isn’t up for reelection until 2012 and this article ends up being about Blunt and Carnahan?
Why raise money FOUR YEARS in advance? Because Claire is in trouble in MO. Nothing about that? Nothing about the voters response to her actions in Washington for her first term? Nothing about McCaskill at all? Nothing about the impact of Obama’s visit? The 2200 people protesting against the health care bill who outnumbered the 400 ‘handpicked’ people who were allowed inside of the venue to listen to the President?
Interesting article from the standpoint of what wasn’t in it.
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