Obama visiting USC to rally for Boxer, Brown
Students will gather in Alumni Park today to hear President Barack Obama speak at the “Moving American Forward” rally for senatorial candidate Sen. Barbara Boxer and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown.
Boxer is currently locked in a tight race for California’s senate seat against Republican candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, while Brown is facing off against Republican Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay.
The stop at USC is one of many for the president, who recently visited the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington.
“The Democrats are trying dramatically to reconstitute the coalition that came out to vote in record numbers in 2008, and the youth vote was a significant part of that,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, an expert in state politics and a senior fellow at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development.
Politicians across the nation are visiting campuses to raise support for Democratic candidates in the upcoming midterm elections. Last week, former President Bill Clinton visited UCLA to raise votes for Brown and Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who is running for state lieutenant governor.
Boxer is leading Fiorina in the polls with an expected 51 percent voter support, according to a recent poll conducted by USC and the Los Angeles Times.
“This is the firewall. If Boxer goes, you can almost be firm that the Democrats will lose the senate,” Jeffe said. “This is a seat that should never get this close.”
Jeffe said the race between Brown and Whitman was trending more toward a Brown victory, but it’s too early to tell.
“Where Brown has made the most dramatic increase in support is among Latinos,” she said. “The question is whether that support turns into action in the polls.”
Brown leads Whitman with 49 percent support, according to the USC/LAT poll.
The purpose of Obama’s visit, Jeffe said, is to raise support for the election among Democratic voters.
“Republicans appear to be more enthusiastic. If that happens, the Democrats are going to lose significant races,” she said.
Micah Scheindlin, political director for the USC College Democrats, said he believed targeting college students is a smart move to get votes.
“The president and the White House know they come here and they are going to get thousands of college students,” Scheindlin said. “I think that everyone claims that is the issue — that Democrats need to energize their base, and nothing energizes them like a rally.”
Rally attendees can enter the event at 10 a.m. Obama will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Alumni Park. Actor and singer Jamie Foxx will perform.
Forrest for the trees; it’s not personal or political. 100 years of the Fed (1913), elite/government wealth confiscation, 40 years of reverse discrimination, hundreds of thousands good Americans dead (Minnesota, California, Texas, Kansas, Michigan) while limiting black combat exposure. Freedom is not free pupster, have fun tonight for tomorrow we will require your life/service.
Wow, first made boy Pat Haden turns Indymac Bank into the second largest fiasco in US history and then made boy Obama runs the united States of America into the ground. What are you boys going to do now? “We’re going to USC, and then Riordan’s Pantry for some chicken and waffles”.
Wake up, smell the roses and Fight On.
Divisive? What is divisive is throwing around slurs about how Obama is a socialist. Just because our president isn’t as far to the right as you doesn’t make him a socialist.
The “public option” for healthcare wasn’t put forward because he wants a socialist state, it was put forward because a single-payer plan would never make it through Congress. I hate the healthcare reform bill (which has nothing to do with health CARE, everything to do with insurance) not because it goes too far, but that it didn’t go far enough.
There are flourishing medical industries in single-payer countries that I would dare you to call socialist — England and Australia for example. Sure, you may have to wait a bit for ELECTIVE procedures, but anyone who has needed care there has always gotten it without worry. THAT is a solution that works, not the state of affairs we have here, now.
Stop with the “socialist” hyperbole and the division will end.
What a fantastic opportunity to see a great president. I have never seen such intense opposition to a sitting president. This man has kept calm and focused despite, obstruction, racism, religious extremism and economic warfare. He has managed to fulfill to 244 pledges and his policies stopped a cataclysmic collapse in the economy. The students who see President Obama today are lucky.
Great President? Please! He is far from great. He is one of the most divisive presidents ever and his low approval ratings bear this out. It’s funny how one can disagree with any of the past presidents but one disagrees with this one and you are called racist.
This empty suit has done nothing but push a socialist agenda with his Obamacare and refusal to renew the tax rates. He is tanking this country which will take years to recover.
Bart, you are the ONLY one that has made sense today. As a Republican, I can still agree with you. It took our Good Ol’ Boys 8 years to make a mess and they expect Obama to clean it up in less than 2. Racism at its finest.
A businessman is drowning in the ocean.
Stimulus : we should rescue him immediately.
Power first : Nope ! How do we pay for it. Just let him go under much like Lehman Brothers.
Stimulus : He is dying right now.
Power first : Nope ! You can’t save his money bag.
Stimulus ( clock is ticking ) : : We can do everything.
Power first : We are serious about jobs. Where are jobs ?
Equation :
Depression : New Deal = Great Recession : Stimulus Package (Groundwork) + Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law
The Problem = The destructive war & military waste + Stimulus Package
Therefore = Incomplete Energy Independence or A Jobs law – The destructive war & military waste
Criticism = Stimulus Package (Groundwork)
Conclusion = Gambling on Iraq Oil + weapon sell Again + Double-dip Depression
Cure = Slashing the destructive war & military waste + Completion of Energy Independence or A Jobs law
Anger at These :
Gambling on Iraq Oil Again : A Drop in the Bucket Vs. Growing Population & Demand World-wide. The Age of Cheap Oil = A Thing of the Past.
1. At this time, it looks like the oil-friendly country is gambling on Iraq oil again, citing a big government & deficit, and therefore the world-wide stimulus package worth trillions and health care reform in America are now at stake.
2. Of the money by the money for the money is getting a society nowhere near prosperity.
Gambling on party of “no idea” is sure to be much like Throwing an Egg of Economy Against a Rock.
The outcome of government take-over :
1. In banking industry, the result of government take-over is big bonus parties backed by the tax-payer’s invaluable cash.
2. In healcare reform, the outcome of government take-over is to dump ill children when needed most.
3. In oil spill, the administration should be held responsible for its deregulation, urging a big government
Chanting deficit :
1. Amid chanting deficit, the same old failed policy.
2. Amid chanting deficit, hands-off approach over huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China from remorseless health care premium.
3. Unfortunately, as a direct consequence of remorseless health care premium, numerous folks have no choice but to hang onto affordable offerings, since one in two households is said to face a hard decision between necessity & drug.
4. Inaction cost in relation to health care reform totals $9trillion over the next decade.
5. Over the next 10 years, total Bush tax cut costs will equal $3.9 trillion, …. the tax cuts would increase deficits by nearly $4 trillion between 2005 and 2014.
The most critical debt : Personal Bankruptcy
1. The current recession came from Personal Bankruptcy largely as a consequence of the relentless health care costs, pain at the pump, and the subsequent subprime mortgage crisis.
Facing huge trade deficit from oil money spill & trade imbalance with China, the primary economic policy of previous administration was ” spending baby “to the great delight of republicans’ sponsors.
2. By comparison, the recovered stock market value alone, around $1.5 trillion, is nearly twice as much as the stimulus package, set aside all the other benefits.
As always, the republicans and unqualified media let folks locked in a box. ruling out the positive effects.
The most promising deficit-cut of government : Slashing the destructive war & military waste
1. Slashing the destructive war & military waste alone supposedly could be enough to balance the budget.
Energy Independence : An Only Way to Desperately-Needed Job Growth
1. My response to the question : where are jobs ?
In the trade deficit, exactly in the severe and persistent oil money spill, taboo of ” do not add to the deficit” party.
2. Under the existing Bush tax cut for lavish bonus parties, a sole job plan for the republicans, the country already saw millions of job cuts.