Bill Clinton to campaign for Obama in New Hampshire

[TroyD]

9/28/12 6:52 AM EDT

Former president Bill Clinton is hitting the stump for President Obama in New Hampshire next week.

He will headline an event in the Granite State on Wednesday, the same day as the first presidential debate in Colorado.

The Obama campaign did not say where Clinton will appear or what the event entails, except that it will be "in support of President Obama."

Clinton, whose favorability rating has hovered in the high sixties, is expected to continue helping Obama in the final weeks of the race. The campaign on Thursday sent an email to supporters saying Clinton and Obama would appear together in California next week.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/bill-clinton-to-campaign-for-obama-in-new-hampshire-136907.html

[oswaldactedalone]

1. Bill,

Go to Arizona

[TroyD]

2. That was my thought as well

I'm glad to see Bill campaigning, but I would have thought New Hampshire is fairly solid for Obama and that Obama can probably do well in states that he won last time.

States where Obama hasn't won before and where he is less popular (eg. Arizona, Missouri etc) but where Bill Clinton did win, might be states where Bill could be better used. Bill is more likely to win over swing voters in AZ & MO than Obama is.

[DCBob]

5. NH is not in bag yet. It has tendencies to lean right sometimes.

AZ is a wish list state. Nice to have but not likely.

[TroyD]

7. Yes it can lean right, but . . .

New Hampshire has voted Dem in every election since 1992 except 2000, and in that year it only went Republican by 1%.

The Dems won it in 92, 96, 04, 08 & are leading in the polls for 12.

It would be odd if it went for Romney.

And it's my understanding that Obama has more offices than Romney in the state.

[DCBob]

8. Yes it would be odd but we should not take it for granted.

I say keep the heat on these "battleground" states and dont let Romney even get close.

[Silent3]

3. I hope he'll be campaigning for Maggie Hassan for governor too

Her Tea Party-crazed opponent is too close in the polls for my comfort. Clinton came here to endorse Hassan during the primaries, and that seemed to give her a nice boost.

[TroyD]

4. The latest poll shows her (+4)

But yes, it's been basically tied for several months and could go either way.

If Obama does well in NH, perhaps his coattails can help pull her over.

[Jennicut]

6. NH is+7 for Obama per the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll.

Bill coming there will only help. NH always strikes me as more libertarian then really conservative at times. On social issues not very conservative at all. Same sex marriage is legal in NH.
It is like my home away from home, my father in law lives there and we go to the White Mountains area almost every summer for the last 10 years. I love NH.

[center rising]

9. Growl big Dawg growl!!