Obama campaign gears up to pull in new voters

Reporting from Orlando, Fla.— 

President Obama's latest attacks on Republicans are another sign that his reelection effort will be more sharply partisan in tone than the idealistic-sounding campaign that brought him to power. What isn't changing, though, is a reliance on grass-roots organizing as the bedrock of his national strategy.

While GOP rivals focus on a handful of early states, Obama is already gearing up in every battleground in the country. At recent training sessions in more than 20 states, 1,200 new field organizers were told that Obama's second term would be won in the streets.

Reading a script from the president's Chicago headquarters, a campaign official informed recruits at a central Florida union hall that Obama's reelection depended on "expanding the electorate. If we don't, we lose."   Read More

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