Hmmm… Let’s see, since becoming President, Obama has visited the following swing states: Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Colorado — all states that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but flipped to the Democrat’s side in 2008. Coincidence? Hardly… CNN
It’s no coincidence President Obama has traveled to key swing states to push his massive stimulus measure, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday.
Barbour, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said Obama’s recent travel is an indication that the new president is already running for reelection.
“He’s going to those places for a reason,” Barbour said on CNN’s State of the Union. “I mean David Axelrod, who’s his campaign consultant/manager/guru really is one of the brightest, most capable people in American politics. And so this is what we’ve become accustomed to, the perpetual campaign.”
In the last few weeks, the president has visited Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Colorado — all states that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but flipped to the Democrat’s side in 2008. Obama has also visited Arizona — the home state of his former rival, Sen. John McCain, and a state he’d like to turn blue in 2012.
The White House has said the president specifically visited those states because they are among the hardest hit by the nations sputtering economy and home foreclosure crisi
