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Obama Opens 25th Florida Office as He Outspends Romney
Three days before President Barack Obama holds his first “official” campaign rallies, 200 supporters snacked on cupcakes at an opening of the re-election committee’s Tampa-area office -- its 25th in Florida. cheap michael kors watches
After posing for pictures with life-sized cutouts of the president and first lady at the May 2 event, they inked their names on posters requesting volunteers to conduct phone banks, register voters and staff the offices.
Tomorrow, Obama will travel to college campuses in Columbus, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia, to mark the start of his general election bid, yet much of the groundwork for the contest already has been quietly put in place.
“In 2012, we have had the benefit of time to put an unprecedented effort on the ground in all 50 states that is registering voters and making sure that voters know what is at stake in this election,” said Katie Hogan, an Obama campaign spokeswoman. michael kors outlet bags
The president’s campaign has spent $94 million, about $16 million more than Mitt Romney has laid out while fending off eight primary challengers, according to U.S. Federal Election Commission data through the end of March compiled by Bloomberg.
Unlike the presumptive Republican nominee’s spending, only $3.7 million of Obama’s cash has gone to television ads. The former Massachusetts governor has outspent the president by almost four to one on that front, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG, a political ad tracker based in New York. cheap Michael Kors
Six Hundred Employees
Instead, Obama’s money is being invested in infrastructure, the FEC reports show. Obama’s payroll reached about 600 employees in March, while Romney was paying 93 people.
Obama’s campaign machine has 165 offices across the U.S., a review of its website shows, even snatching up Romney’s Iowa headquarters at a former Blockbuster video store in Des Moines once it became available after the Jan. 3 Republican caucuses. Michael Kors Sale
Stephen Wayne, a professor of government at Washington- based Georgetown University, said “energizing a base that didn’t hang together over the past four years is very important, and that takes people on the ground as well as a good computer- tracking mechanism like he had in 2008.”
The president’s early on-the-ground presence is evident in states expected to be the most competitive in November: Florida, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina.
