Obama 2012 campaign’s Operation Vote focuses on ethnic minorities, core liberals

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-2012-campaigns-operation-vote-focuses-on-ethnic-minorities-core-liberals/2011/09/23/gIQAlY7JuK_story.html

President Obama’s campaign is developing an aggressive new program to expand support from ethnic minority groups and other traditional Democratic voters as his team studies an increasingly narrow path to victory in next year’s reelection effort.

The program, called “Operation Vote,” underscores how the tide has turned for Obama, whose 2008 brand was built on calls to unite “red and blue America.” Then, he presented himself as a politician who could transcend traditional partisan divisions, and many white centrists were drawn to the coalition that helped elect the country’s first black president.

Today, the political realities of a sputtering economy, a more polarized Washington and fast-sinking presidential job approval ratings, particularly among white independents, are forcing the Obama campaign to adjust its tactics.

**Opinion**

It sounds like a repeat of what got the president elected. News flash: action speaks louder than words. Many things that Obama said on his election campaign were not carried out after getting into office. Now, when it's politically convenient and in his interest, he wants to bring to the spotlight items that already should've been fixed or at least addressed. I'm not a huge fan of any of the candidates for presidency, but now, is not the time to reward people for not living up to their word. Instead, it's the time to let elected officials know you've had enough, and to hold them accountable for their in-action regarding your interests. These same interests, in which, they claim to have had prior to getting your vote. By not doing such, it signals to politicians your lack of concern amongst more. Thereby relaying, that it's okay to say things to get elected, and then afterwards, not follow through with such. Why? Because voters don't hold them accountable for it and continue to allow these same people or similar candidates to win elections. I'm not bought by the hopeful rhetoric of President Obama, and you shouldn't be neither. Let's demand more from our politicians, since obviously, not enough progress has been made.