Obama lunches with supporters
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President Obama took time out Friday to do something that is becoming an occasional break from his busy schedule: dining with campaign supporters.
In this case, the president traveled from the White House to a nearby neighborhood to have lunch with four lucky guests from Colorado, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
Three of those states are sure to be battlegrounds in November's election. Georgia leans Republican, but not by insurmountable numbers if events continue to break in Obama's favor.
Obama has done this before, and his re-election campaign has gone so far as to create contests: contribute a few bucks and enter a lottery to be one of the president's lunch or dinner guests.
This time, the location was Scion restaurant, with an Asian-influenced menu, in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood. Obama arrived at 12:26, removed his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and spent more than an hour eating and chatting with:
* Kathie Toigo, an early-childhood special needs teacher from Yerington, Nev.
* Bill Blackwelder, an Army reservist and Afghanistan war veteran from Fayetteville, N.C.
* Val Grossmann, a postal worker from Westminster, Colo.
* Scott Zoebisch, a firefighter from Atlanta
In this case, the president traveled from the White House to a nearby neighborhood to have lunch with four lucky guests from Colorado, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.
Three of those states are sure to be battlegrounds in November's election. Georgia leans Republican, but not by insurmountable numbers if events continue to break in Obama's favor.
Obama has done this before, and his re-election campaign has gone so far as to create contests: contribute a few bucks and enter a lottery to be one of the president's lunch or dinner guests.
This time, the location was Scion restaurant, with an Asian-influenced menu, in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood. Obama arrived at 12:26, removed his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, loosened his tie and spent more than an hour eating and chatting with:
* Kathie Toigo, an early-childhood special needs teacher from Yerington, Nev.
* Bill Blackwelder, an Army reservist and Afghanistan war veteran from Fayetteville, N.C.
* Val Grossmann, a postal worker from Westminster, Colo.
* Scott Zoebisch, a firefighter from Atlanta
