Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than previous five Presidents combined as he visits key swing states on 'permanent campaign'
By Toby Harnden|
Barack Obama has already held more
re-election fundraising events than every elected president since
Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new
book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
The
figures, contained a in a new book called The Rise of the President’s
Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty, due to be published by
University Press of Kansas in July, give statistical backing to the
notion that Obama is more preoccupied with being re-elected than any
other commander-in-chief of modern times.
Campaigner in chief? Barack Obama has been assiduously visiting swing states; he is pictured earlier this week speaking in Iowa
Doherty, who has compiled
statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to
President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104
fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents
Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
combined.
Since then,
Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter
held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in
1984, Bush Sr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jr 57 in 2004.
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