25,000 Turn Out for Obama in Iowa
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More than 25,000 Iowa Democrats caucused Tuesday night in support of President Obama, according to his re-election campaign.
The turnout — touted by Obama’s campaign strategists online and on a day-after conference call with reporters — was significant for a candidate running unopposed in the state and signals that the president’s grassroots organizing machine hasn’t lost its touch of four years ago.
While only a small fraction of the record 239,000 Iowa Democrats who caucused on Jan. 3, 2008, the showing for 2012 amounted to roughly one-fifth of all Republicans who huddled across all 99 Iowa counties to pick their nominee the same night.
Obama also enlisted more than 7,500 supporters to join his army of volunteers mobilizing for his re-election, his campaign team said.
Iowa is a “microcosm of what we’re building in states across the country,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. ”The results showed an incredible amount of enthusiasm for the president’s re-election. … The Republicans should not expect they can build something like this overnight.”
The president has campaign offices in every state, with eight in Iowa alone, more than any GOP presidential candidate. He has also won commitments of support from more than 1 million Americans who have donated to his campaign or signed up to volunteer.
Messina said Obama has 71 teams of grassroots neighborhood organizers in Iowa, a mobilization seen in other key battlegrounds as well. He said the campaign has 62 teams in Michigan and has connected with more than 511,000 voters in Nevada.
The “enthusiasm gap was nowhere to be found last night,” he continued, referring to a number of recent polls that have showed Republican voters more excited than Democrats about the November presidential ballot.
A record 125,000 Iowa Republicans turned out to caucus Tuesday.
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Posted by: Common _ Sense | January 4, 2012, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
Four of the top 5 polls in the country now have President Obama receiving positive approval ratings.
Posted by: Dan | January 4, 2012, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm
Its too white, too rural, and too small… to represent a cross section of America. NBC/MSNBC
Who’s Obama and ABC kidding?
Posted by: we all know | January 4, 2012, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
How can I slow down as I am posting too quickly if I just turned on my computer and made one comment? Your pro-obama censors are a bit annoying….guess I will ask the FCC………
Posted by: justj joey | January 4, 2012, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm
another bad sign
Posted by: You can’t keep hiding the truth ABC | January 4, 2012, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
Four of the top 5 polls in the country now have President Obama receiving positive approval ratings. People are sick of what they’ve seen from the Republicans with their ‘get elected at any cost’ approach to the economy and everything else. Party First, Country Second.
They see the President with a calm, steady approach on almost every major issue.
Posted by: Dan | January 4, 2012, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
The DNC said that if 200,000 republicans voted last night it would show republican enthusiasm for the republican candidates. Approximately 125,000 republican voters turned out, 350,000 republican voters didn’t. The DNC is happy.
The President drew 25,000 late night supporters just to see a web cast. It’s obvious the republican voters don’t like any of the current candidates. The President is going to be re-elected by a landslide. The DNC needs to concentrate on the Congressional races and see if a Congress that will get off their butts and do something can be elected.
Posted by: tmferretti | January 4, 2012, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm
DAN…..‘get elected at any cost’ approach to the economy and everything else. Party First, Country Second…………….Sounds like Odumbo’s first two years in office !
Posted by: HUH ? | January 4, 2012, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
Obama has sold out our civil liberties to please the repubs and the media is hiding it. Disgusting.
Posted by: nomayo | January 4, 2012, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
JUST J JOEY
I’m an Obama supporter and the same thing happens to me, in fact some of my posts are accepted but never posted. I don’t think its censorship; it’s more like IT incompetence.
Posted by: tmferretti | January 4, 2012, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
If his “his re-election campaign” provided the information, it must be accurate!
Posted by: John | January 4, 2012, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm
I for one always believe what Jim Messina and the DNC says.
Posted by: newcountryman | January 4, 2012, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
HUH ? | January 4, 2012, 3:03 PM SAID:
“…‘get elected at any cost’ approach to the economy and everything else. Party First, Country Second’ ……………….. Sounds like Odumbo’s first two years in office !”
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LOL! ….. The previous poster, Dan, is right. Especially when we all remember what Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said, “Our # 1 goal is to make this guy a 1 term president”. ….. Republicans can care less about doing the right thing for America, IN FACT, they’re all doing whatever they can to make the economy worse. For example, with the debt ceiling fight, which downgraded the credit rating of U.S. securities, it was the Republicans actions of “stalling / hemming and hawing” that caused the credit rating down grade. And Republicans planned for that to happen.
Posted by: Steven in Alabama | January 4, 2012, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Joey, like tm said, it happens a lot. It has nothing to do with what you’re writing. No censuring, just annoying. That is why it is good to save a copy of what you want to submit before actually submitting.
Posted by: e | January 4, 2012, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
Let me tell you how a Democratic President gets a big turnout in my city…All the government offices, federal, state, county and city are located close together. They are staffed by people sympathetic to the Democratic party. The President arrives at a site close by, and all the offices close up while the employees take a break outside cheering their favorite President. And they are joined by similar employees from nearby communities….And all this cheering is done on taxpayer time……
Posted by: munster42 | January 4, 2012, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
The DNC didn’t cause 350,000 republicans to stay home last night. I’m sure they were just tired of the empty rhetoric spouted by the candidates. None of the republicans have ever said anything about the real issues confronting Americans, such as jobs and home foreclosures. They resort to the 10 second sound bites and immature name calling. Like us democrats, these republicans were tired of the republican candidates BS.
Posted by: tmferretti | January 4, 2012, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
munster42 | January 4, 2012, 3:49 pm…
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LOL! …. Sort of like that soldier that showed up, IN UNIFORM, at Ron Paul’s rally last night (and ppeared on CNN), rooting for Ron Paul… and in COMPLETE violation of the UCMJ.
Give me a break with your whining please.
Posted by: Shallow "R's" Are Fun To Watch | January 4, 2012, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm
Republicans are in for a RUDE awakening next November. In THEIR own little minds and the puppeteer – FAUX NEWS who puts what they THINK into people’s little minds – they are convinced that ALL the lies they were told and have repeated over and over again for three years are true!! Well, they will be shocked to find that President Obama has done an EXCELLENT job in pulling our Nation back from the cliff that gw had us hanging over. While the MAJORITY of bush’s terms saw nothing but a LOSS of jobs, Obama’s tenure has seen the opposite – Job GAINS, also President Obama has ended the war built on lies and will soon end the war in Afganistan. Obama IS going to defeat the lying right as it SHOULD be so we will NOT have to endure yet another 4 years of Republican Incompetence and back to the same old crap that brought us here. President Obama has done a phenominal job especially when we consider how BAD gw left this nation in 08!!! A President like Obama has taken an intelligent and steady approach to all the problems that he has faced since 2009. I might add that he has received absolutely NO help or cooperation from the right. Voters in this Nation know the truth UNLESS they are Republicans in denial.
Posted by: demNme5 | January 4, 2012, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
Static, Bad Audio Interrupt Obama’s Iowa Webcast…
…no cheering, chanting or clapping
another sign that this marist regime is in serious trouble
Posted by: You can't keep hiding the truth ABC | January 4, 2012, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
CND_FOX you are changing your name faster than michelle eats a burger and fries LOL
Posted by: lets play change that name | January 4, 2012, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
Who won Iowa?
Obama.
Posted by: progressivemama | January 4, 2012, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm
The jobs, jobs, jobs platform, as misguided as it was, has not been mentioned the last couple of weeks. It’s back to the usual republican mantra of values, values, values. They all agree that the only fix required for the economy is to cut corporate taxes to zero, repeal anything Obama signed, and lighten up on the regulations of strip mines and drinking water. That’ll do it. Now on to the real issue facing America that requires a constitutional amendment to ban gay-marriage…
Posted by: David | January 4, 2012, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
“Four of the top 5 polls in the country now have President Obama receiving positive approval ratings.” — @Dan how wonderful that you have a sense of humor…
Posted by: RalphF | January 4, 2012, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm
The DNC didn’t cause 350,000 republicans to stay home last night.
You are right they didn’t. If I lived there I would be undecided as well. You have several candidates and most people I know were off for the holidays not thinking much about anything much less politics. And not to be partisn here but every time I see any politician I want to go throw up…this includes the man at the top.
Posted by: david | January 4, 2012, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
Yeah, Obama talks about jobs, Gov Kasich (OH) ACTUALLY CREATES THEM!!
Posted by: Manitu | January 4, 2012, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm
“25,000 Turn Out for Obama in Iowa
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Who knew there were 25,000 “reporters” that all went to Iowa….
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | January 4, 2012, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm