The race has begun. With the official announcement of the candidacy of Barack Obama was launched yesterday to watch the presidential elections on November 6, 2012. The president, the first candidate in contention, you have enough time to collect a record amount of money to rebuild the popular movement that brought him to the White House in 2008.
They have started to furnish the offices of Chicago, where he installed the headquarters of the Obama campaign. Its director, Jim Messina, has begun to hire assistants and implement the complex mechanism to raise the funds required. The aim is to collect more than $ 140 million before the end of the year when potential Republican rivals have not even started their competition in the primaries.
Simultaneously attempt to raise the huge structure of grassroots organizations which, so original, Obama turned three years ago tracking a figure unprecedented popular. This was explained to the president on video and e-mail sent to his followers: "We do this now because the policy that we do not start with expensive ads on TV or extravagance but the people organizing block by block, talking to neighbors, coworkers and friends.
That's the kind of campaign we want to build. " Collect money for that half is slow and difficult. In 2008, the Obama campaign focused on small donors and got the figure of more than 700 million dollars. This time is to exceed this amount and it is possible to exceed the ceiling of one billion dollars, although this does not dismiss the help of big business, which is now legally authorized to make generous donations.
For the next few days is already planned fundraising events in California and New York more than 35,000 dollars in some cases covered. But money is no guarantee of success. Obama will have to convince his countrymen that his work is unfinished and has sufficient merit to be allowed to continue.
From this point of view, the president has sufficient grounds to launch a campaign with optimism but is far from guaranteed reelection. To date, when only spend three months of Ecuador for its management, Obama is a frustration for those placed in it the hope of radical and immediate changes, but can not say that his presidency will be a disappointment.
Its popularity, according to a recent survey from The Washington Post slightly above the 50% and today, is the favorite. In the past two years, Obama has overcome the most serious economic crisis in a generation and put the country back into positive growth and job creation. New York Stock Exchange recorded unknown benefits since 2008 and, reflecting this positive situation, sales of major automotive companies rose last month by 10%.
Companies are hiring again and Americans are again mostly optimistic about their future. Even if the time remaining until the election is accomplished without major achievements, the Republican control of the House of Representatives makes it very difficult legislative work, "Obama may be presented to the public with the balance of health care reform, but begins to debate show benefits, the conclusion of a war in Iraq, and the beginning of the end of another, in Afghanistan.
Little progress will be achieved, probably in the promises of an energy reform or a new immigration law, but in these and other issues has been presented that can serve to justify a second term. Obama also has the advantage of the disarray among his opponents. The Republican Party has been unable so far to capitalize politically his victory in the parliamentary elections of 2010.
The opposition offered daily an image of unity among the moderates and the radical wing represented by the Tea Party. Belongs to the latter sector was the only candidate so far has made clear its intention to attend, Michele Bachmann. Many others are considering it, including Mitt Romney, which was nominated in 2008, Newt Gingrich, the captain of the conservative revolution of the nineties, and Sarah Palin, the most popular of all the unlikely but winning well. 
They have started to furnish the offices of Chicago, where he installed the headquarters of the Obama campaign. Its director, Jim Messina, has begun to hire assistants and implement the complex mechanism to raise the funds required. The aim is to collect more than $ 140 million before the end of the year when potential Republican rivals have not even started their competition in the primaries.
Simultaneously attempt to raise the huge structure of grassroots organizations which, so original, Obama turned three years ago tracking a figure unprecedented popular. This was explained to the president on video and e-mail sent to his followers: "We do this now because the policy that we do not start with expensive ads on TV or extravagance but the people organizing block by block, talking to neighbors, coworkers and friends.
That's the kind of campaign we want to build. " Collect money for that half is slow and difficult. In 2008, the Obama campaign focused on small donors and got the figure of more than 700 million dollars. This time is to exceed this amount and it is possible to exceed the ceiling of one billion dollars, although this does not dismiss the help of big business, which is now legally authorized to make generous donations.
For the next few days is already planned fundraising events in California and New York more than 35,000 dollars in some cases covered. But money is no guarantee of success. Obama will have to convince his countrymen that his work is unfinished and has sufficient merit to be allowed to continue.
From this point of view, the president has sufficient grounds to launch a campaign with optimism but is far from guaranteed reelection. To date, when only spend three months of Ecuador for its management, Obama is a frustration for those placed in it the hope of radical and immediate changes, but can not say that his presidency will be a disappointment.
Its popularity, according to a recent survey from The Washington Post slightly above the 50% and today, is the favorite. In the past two years, Obama has overcome the most serious economic crisis in a generation and put the country back into positive growth and job creation. New York Stock Exchange recorded unknown benefits since 2008 and, reflecting this positive situation, sales of major automotive companies rose last month by 10%.
Companies are hiring again and Americans are again mostly optimistic about their future. Even if the time remaining until the election is accomplished without major achievements, the Republican control of the House of Representatives makes it very difficult legislative work, "Obama may be presented to the public with the balance of health care reform, but begins to debate show benefits, the conclusion of a war in Iraq, and the beginning of the end of another, in Afghanistan.
Little progress will be achieved, probably in the promises of an energy reform or a new immigration law, but in these and other issues has been presented that can serve to justify a second term. Obama also has the advantage of the disarray among his opponents. The Republican Party has been unable so far to capitalize politically his victory in the parliamentary elections of 2010.
The opposition offered daily an image of unity among the moderates and the radical wing represented by the Tea Party. Belongs to the latter sector was the only candidate so far has made clear its intention to attend, Michele Bachmann. Many others are considering it, including Mitt Romney, which was nominated in 2008, Newt Gingrich, the captain of the conservative revolution of the nineties, and Sarah Palin, the most popular of all the unlikely but winning well.
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