Obama Begins Formally Campaigning in the States He's Been Visiting for Months
President Obama's campaign announced it would formally beginning its reelection campaign at a one-day tour of two swing state colleges the day after he ended his official, taxpayer-funded two-day tour of three swing state colleges.
President Obama's campaign announced it would formally beginning its reelection campaign at a one-day tour of two swing state colleges the day after he ended his official, taxpayer-funded two-day tour of three swing state colleges. The president and the first lady will kick off his campaign at Ohio State University on May 5, and then travel to Virginia Commonwealth University, The Washington Times reports. Obama is just getting home from his trip to colleges in North Carolina, Iowa, and Colorado, which count as official presidential visits because he was pushing Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from rising in the summer. But those trips didn't have an all-business feel. At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he slow-jammed with Jimmy Fallon; at the University of Iowa, he told an adoring crowd, "I love you back." He stopped by for a much-Instagram'd visit to Boulder's The Sink bar, making one patron briefly Internet famous. But don't call these campaign stops. As Slate's John Dickerson tweeted, "Obama campaign announces he'll campaign in states he regularly visits when not campaigning ending charade of pretending not to campaign."