Obama to headline DNC fundraiser Monday (& CNBC-sponsored town-hall meeting Tuesday at the Newseum)

[Turborama]

Source: CNN

From Paul Steinhauser, CNN Deputy Political Director -
September 20, 2010 -

President Obama heads to Philadelphia on Monday to not only try and keep the state's open Senate seat in Democratic hands but to also raise funds for his party. CNN learned Friday that Obama will be the main attraction at a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. The DNC has committed to spending $50 million to help Democratic candidates running in this year's midterm elections.

While in Philadelphia on Monday, the president teams up at a separate fundraiser for Rep. Joe Sestak -- the party's Senate nominee.

The president's visit will come one week after Vice President Joe Biden headlined a Sestak fundraiser in the Philadelphia area. Sestak also teamed up with former President Bill Clinton at a campaign event that same day.

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Also Tuesday, Obama will participate in an hourlong CNBC-sponsored town-hall meeting at Washington's Newseum.

Read more: www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/20/obama.dnc.fundraiser

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Obama Aides Weigh Bid to Tie the G.O.P. to the Tea Party

Source: NYT

By JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said.

White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are trying to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of limiting the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate. The strategists see openings to exploit after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska. “We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.

Democrats are divided. The party’s House and Senate campaign committees are resistant, not wanting to do anything that smacks of nationalizing the midterm elections when high unemployment and the drop in Mr. Obama’s popularity have made the climate so hostile to Democrats. Endangered Congressional candidates want any available money to go to their localized campaigns.

Late Sunday night, White House advisers denied that a national ad campaign was being planned. “There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House” or the Democratic National Committee, said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser.

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/politics/20dems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw

[Turborama]

1. Error in title. CNN originally said the CNBC thing is on Tuesday. They were wrong, it's in 50 mins

They have changed it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/20/obama.dnc.fundraiser/

It's actually on at 12 PM ET today, in 50 minutes.

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2. Thanks for posting. n/t