"Obama embraces positive strategy as he battles for votes in final stretch"

[applegrove]

Obama embraces positive strategy as he battles for votes in final stretch

by Ewan MacAskill at the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/obama-postive-final-campaign-stretch

"SNIP.............................................

BO attempted to seize back the political initiative on Tuesday by abruptly switching to a new, positive strategy for the final stretch of the White House campaign after dominating the third and final presidential debate.

After months of criticism for campaigning negatively – with a relentless and costly stream of ads since early summer aimed at undermining Mitt Romney's character – the Obama campaign is to emphasise what the president would do with another four years in office.

Democrats and undecided voters have been pleading with him for months to set out in detail his second-term agenda – something on which he has been extremely vague so far.

The campaign is printing 3.5m copies of a 20-page leaflet to be distributed in the battlefield states setting out his proposed agenda for economic recovery, domestic-based energy, education, tax, healthcare and pensions. Obama was backing it up with a minute-long advert in nine battlefield states from Wednesday.

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[GallopingGhost]

1. Hopefully these leaflets

will win over any undecideds who may be unsure about his plans for the future on certain issues.

[Sugarcoated]

2. GO BAMA!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. PBO was really energized today.

He is carrying the debate momentum with him on the trail.