On Tuesday, the president is scheduled to hold an old-fashioned campaign rally on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Party officials said they expected thousands to cram onto Library Mall, an outside setting, to see Mr. Obama.
A senior Democratic Party strategist said the event would be the biggest political rally since the end of the campaign and is meant to recapture “some of the old excitement and energy from the 2008 campaign that was so essential to Obama’s and Democrats’ success.”
The strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the thinking behind the new approach, said the White House was also trying to leverage the single event with more than 200 “watch parties” across the country, much as Mr. Obama’s campaign did two years ago.
It is characteristic of Obama and his busybody team of spin doctors to have recourse to a staged parlor trick to "energize" a diminished base. Only this time, unlike during the campaign, the aura and mystique are gone. Obama will surely get a nice sized crowd for the pep rally, but those showing up are followers who would support him no matter what. The questions remains: Just what will they be celebrating at their bonanza? The near 10% unemployment rate? The fact that one in six Americans relies on government support? The fact that one in seven Americans lives in poverty? The fact that approval for Congress and Obama is at an all-time low? Or is it the nation's incomprehensibly high national debt?
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