Thursday, October 21

Campaign swing takes Obama to West Coast

Seattle, Washington -- President Obama will wake up in Seattle on Thursday amid a four-day, multi-state tour aimed at propping up embattled Senate incumbents in Washington, California and Nevada.
Obama will hold a rally and fundraiser with Sen. Patty Murray, who is fighting for her political life against Republican Dino Rossi.
The president also will hold a backyard economic event focused on women, a not-so-subtle appeal to ensure Murray's voters come home.
Top White House adviser David Axelrod pointed to the president's legislative accomplishments on pay equity and health care to assert these issues are "part of our case of the future we're trying to build."
He added Republicans have a much different philosophy and this is "one place where going backward will have a dilatory effect" on key issues affecting women.But Obama also will mix in some fundraising for House Democrats and stumping for two gubernatorial candidates as he lays out a broader party message that Axelrod said will try to "focus people on the choice in front of them" all across the nation.
"Our mission is to get people energized and understanding there are real stakes in this election," Axelrod said ahead of Obama's trip that begins Wednesday evening in Oregon and Washington before continuing on to California and Nevada, and then ending Saturday in Minnesota.
Axelrod signaled that Obama's message will be similar to what he's been saying for months, with the senior adviser asserting the president's policies have "stopped the free fall" in the economy while Republicans want to go back to policies that "visited disaster on American families" in the Bush years.
He noted the president has made progress on reforms for health care, Wall Street, credit cards and student loans, "all of which would be jeopardized if the backward-looking Republican agenda" wins out.


(source:cnn)

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