Obama pursues base, bucks in California
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Carla Marinucci, Drew Joseph, and Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/9/12
On a visit to pick up California votes and cash, President Obama said in San Francisco on Monday night that "I very much intend to win this election" and implored supporters to redouble their efforts because "we're only going to do it if everybody is almost obsessive for the next 29 days."
It was a provocative statement on the day when he started to see blowback in the polls from his widely panned debate performance last week.
Obama's 12th presidential visit to San Francisco included a trio of fundraisers that began with a round table for 25 deep-pocketed donors at the InterContinental Hotel, where tickets cost $40,000 each. He then visited with 100 people who paid $20,000 each to have dinner with the president inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. He capped the evening with a raucous fundraiser for 6,000 roaring supporters inside the auditorium.
After crisscrossing California to lean on two key groups critical to his 2012 re-election campaign - wealthy Democratic donors in San Francisco and Latinos in Kern County - the president told his supporters at the dinner, "I am very competitive. And I very much intend to win this election."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Obama-asks-supporters-to-be-3930415.php
(original title: "Obama asks supporters to be 'obsessive'"
(original excerpt before the article was edited for print: )
Obama's 12th presidential visit to San Francisco included a trio of fundraisers that began with a round table for 25 deep-pocketed donors at the InterContinental Hotel, where tickets cost $40,000 each. He then visited with 100 people who paid $20,000 each to have dinner with the president inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. He capped the evening with a fundraiser for 6,000 inside the auditorium.
After beginning the day criss-crossing California to lean on two key groups critical to his 2012 re-election campaign - deep-pocketed Democratic donors in San Francisco and Latinos in Kern County - the president told his supporters at the dinner, "I am very competitive. And I very much intend to win this election."
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I'm in!
I'm not Obsessive Enough Already! 
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