Serious enthusiasm gap!
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign has received tens of thousands of small donations after it was officially launched, U.S. media reported on Wednesday.
Media reports said the campaign received 23,000 contributions in the first 24 hours following the Monday morning announcement. Nearly all of the donations were in the amount of 200 dollars or less.
Small donations are key to Obama’s election success in 2008. In all, the campaign raised a whopping 750 million dollars. The reelection campaign is targeting the one-billion mark this time.
In addition to small donors, the Obama campaign is also targeting big donors. Starting next week, the campaign will organize a series of big donor events headlined by Obama himself.
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Speaking about donations, anyone wants to educate me a little bit about ActBlu?
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Recovery!
Unemployment falls in three-quarters of US cities
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates are falling in most metro areas across the country, suggesting that recent nationwide gains in hiring are widespread and not limited to a few healthy regions.
More than three-quarters of the nation’s 372 largest metro areas reported lower unemployment rates in February than the previous month, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That’s the most to report a decline since September.
And more than 300 areas added jobs in February compared to the previous month. That’s a much better showing than January, when most metro areas lost jobs.
The gains “are definitely becoming a lot more broad-based,” said Marisa DiNatale, a regional economist at Moody’s Analytics.
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I don’t know how many of you watched PBO’s town hall in Falls Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania (And why would you, it’s not like the “news” networks carried it) – but it was just brilliant. Especially what he said in the end about the nature of “progress”. So smart and so clear. I hope to find the full video soon, but for now, here’s his opening statement about the fast approaching shutdown. This man really despise “Washington”.