President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden and other senior Democrats will head out to schools Tuesday to connect with young voters. Reaching out to those first-time voters in the 2008 election was an especially important point for President Obama.
"You can't sit it out. You can't suddenly just check in once every 10 years or so, on an exciting presidential election, and then not pay attention during big mid-term elections where we've got a real big choice between Democrats and Republicans," Obama said.
Obama is targeting a large support base of his, with as many as two-thirds of people who voted for him in the presidential elections aged between 18-29, and many of those first-time voters.
Obama and Biden have gone to universities in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, a strategic move as the Republics are out ahead of Democrats in pre-election polls. The idea is to motivate young voters to come out and vote in the mid-term elections, where the Democrats face the real possibility of loosing a number of House Seats.
Senior members of the Democrats were also en-route to speak at the University of Delaware, at the University of Maryland, at California State University and others around in the country in hope of creating a “surge” of voters in the mid-terms.
President Obama’s speech at the University of Wisconsin is the first of a so-called "Moving America Forward" series of events planned in the next couple of weeks and leading up to the November elections.
