Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats
By BILL BARROW
Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn’t during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national midterm elections when they already hold the White House. Of course, Obama is more popular than he was back then, and now it’s President Joe Biden, Obama’s former vice president, who faces the prospects of a November repudiation. Obama begins a hopscotch in battleground states Friday in Georgia and will travel Saturday to Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by stops next week in Nevada and Pennsylvania. Democrats see Obama as a senior statesman who can defend the party and draw sharp contrasts with Republicans.
