Axelrod: "12,000 individuals applied to join...as volunteer summer organizers, more than in 2008"

[ProSense]

TPM

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Despite what you hear in elite commentary, the President’s support among base voters and in key demographic groups has stayed strong. According to the latest NBC-WSJ poll, Democrats approve of his performance by an 81%-14% margin. That’s stronger than President Clinton’s support among Democrats at this point in his term and, according to Gallup, stronger than any Democratic President dating back to Harry Truman through this point in their presidency. 92 percent of African Americans approve. And a PPP poll out this week showed the President winning 67 percent of Hispanics against Romney and 70 percent against Perry, a higher percentage than he captured against SenatorMcCain in 2008.

The base is mobilized behind the President. 12,000 individuals applied to join the campaign as volunteer summer organizers, more than in 2008. 1,100 students across the country are organizing their campuses in support of the campaign as fellows this fall. We had 552,462 individuals give to the campaign in the second quarter — more than we had in all of 2007. Of our 552,462 total donors to the 2012 campaign so far, more than 260,000 of them are completely new to the Obama organization and have never given before.

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Impressive!

[liberal N proud]

1. The GOP and M$M will have to ramp up the attacks.

[vaberella]

2. Makes you wonder what DU is on about....he's shunning/rejecting his base. n/t

[jaxx]

3. It's wonderful to see so many Democrats supporting President Obama.

The numbers are impressive!!

K&R

[great white snark]

4. Me likey those numbers.

Good start.

[ProSense]

5. Yup! n/t

[Pisces]

6. Don't believe the negative hype. Obama is going to prevail despite the DU naysayers.

[CakeGrrl]

7. K/R for the good news!

[jenmito]

8. The campaigners better make sure the voters all have the (newly) required form(s) of voter IDs...

or they won't be allowed to vote. The Repubs. are trying to suppress the (Dem.) `vote.

[Tx4obama]

9. Kick! n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. K&R

[Clio the Leo]

11. The OFA ground game is no joke....

... they have been in place for MONTHS now, no doubt larger than anything the GOP has ATM. Dont know how the GOP nominee can replicate it in the time they'll have.

[Major Hogwash]

16. This is very true.

We were on the college campus the week BEFORE the semester started, handing out Oreos and asking the students if they had heard the latest garbage spewed out of Rush's big fat mouth lately.
It didn't take much to turn some heads, let me tell ya.
Rush gave us that idea when he bitched about triple Oreos.

He's like the stupidest anti-Republican dillwad they have on the radio these days.

[vaberella]

12. Don't tell that to some Dems. One of them was continuously betting me the contrary.

When I showed the proof they then moved the goalpost to wait until the 2012 election is over and I'll see that the numbers won't stay the same or be better.

[Arkana]

13. If this is true then where the hell are the "the base is abandoning him" cries coming from?

[treestar]

14. More than in 2008?

That is terrific. Would not have expected that.

[Major Hogwash]

15. This doesn't really surprise me at all. Most of the positions were filled here by August.

And they didn't even advertise it very well!!

[boppers]

17. But he isn't liked enough on DU!

Surely that makes all the difference!