In what is being dubbed
President Barack Obama’s
re-election campaign kickoff, close to 8,000 individuals looked on at Virginia
Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Siegel Center
to hear the president lay the groundwork for his campaign ahead.
A big part of President
Obama’s campaign message will be his championing of the middle-class in
America. Obama stated that “This isn’t just another election. This is a
make-or-break moment for America’s middle class.”[1]
Just as forcefully, Mitt
Romney, the presumptive GOP candidate for president, will attempt to reinvent
his own image from that of an out of touch elitist to a champion for America’s
middle class. For Romney, the battle to win over the middle class and peel away
the elitist New Englander image will be a greater uphill battle.[2]
President Obama’s
presence in Virginia is of course a sign of how important his campaign is
viewing victory in Virginia. His speech at VCU is also a sign that President
Obama intends on targeting a demographic which largely helped to usher him into
the White House in 2008, college-aged Americans.[3]
If President Obama can
rekindle some of the hope and optimism that he inspired in 2008 among younger
Americans, he will have gone a long way to regaining the presidency come this
November.
Even though President
Obama has been far from the president that many Americans who voted for him in
2008 imagined, he is America’s best hope for a brighter future for all Americans,
not just the super wealthy.[4]
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