Obama Says Voting Tuesday More Important Than Fantasy Football
President Obama warned Pennsylvania voters to not be complacent, telling them that getting to the polls is more important than getting ready for next week's fantasy football matchups.
Obama's last campaign appearance for Tuesday's mid-term elections was at a for Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf on Sunday night. The president recounted how low turnout in the 2010 elections that delivered the House to Republicans.
"That was Jim drinking beer and setting up his fantasy football for next week," Obama said, referencing an imaginary friend of a Democratic supporter who didn't vote in the 2010 midterms.
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The president also appeared to misquote turnout figures from Ukraine's recent parliamentary elections. "They've got a war going on," Obama said, citing near "60 percent turnout." Voice of America reported estimated turnout at 51 percent.
Carrying record-low polling numbers just a few days before his party faces a tough set of Senate races in the 2014 midterms, Obama has largely stayed away from the campaign trail this year, campaigning for only one Democratic Senate candidate and not visiting any of the nation's closest, most hotly contested races. Some analysts have predicted that Republicans will win control of the Senate on Nov. 2, giving them control of both houses of Congress heading into Obama's final two years in the White House.
Here's a list of Obama's public campaign events with Democratic candidates this year:
-Oct. 19 rally for Maryland gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown in Prince George's County, Md. -Oct. 19 rally for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn in Chicago -Oct. 28 rally for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke in Milwaukee -Oct. 30 rally for Maine gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud in Portlane, Maine -Noc. 1 rally for Michigan Senate candidate Gary Peters and gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer in Detroit -Nov. 2 rally for Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy in Bridgeport, Conn. -Nov. 2 rally for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf in Philadelphia