BOWIE, Md. — President Obama strove to energize his supporters on Thursday, urging the party faithful in this heavily Democratic town in this most Democratic of states to show up at the polls next month.
With less than a month to go before the midterm elections in November, Mr. Obama, facing what most political observers predict will be significant losses of Democratic seats in Congress, was using every weapon in his arsenal to prod the people who helped propel him into the White House two years ago not to cede the partisan battlefield to the Republicans this year.
“Don’t make me look bad now,” Mr. Obama said. “I’m betting on you.”
Thursday’s rally, held at Bowie State University under beautiful clear skies, drew several thousand college students and local residents, many of them African Americas — core components of the Democratic Party base.
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