President Obama was in Philadelphia on Sunday hosting a rally aimed at firing up young people. About 20,000 people reportedly showed up. Not a huge number, but still, the pictures showed a sea of supporters so that is encouraging.
Pres has to reward the young people more by creating work/study grants aimed at students who can help combat terrorism - linguists, engineers, Internet technologists, etc. (See post below for more ideas of how he can create a million jobs, most of which should go to young people). The pres' rally followed a liberal rally in Washington on Saturday where many of the president's supporters, including Al Sharpton and others, similarly worked the crowds to fire up support for the beleaguered president and his legislative agenda which will be shot if the Republicans succeed at ousting democratic incumbents on November 2.
The Republicans are promising to roll back healthcare reform and to shrink government spending. How does that help the American people? What's in that for the American people? It's one thing to say that Obama did not nothing for the American people. But how does scaling back Healthcare and cutting spending right now solve the problem?
Many are predicting that more incumbent Democrats can win back their seats than predicted. It's going to be a question of how they frame the economic debate, and how good they are at turning out their people to the polls.
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