Barack Obama 2012 Campaign Announcement Expected Monday

President Barack Obama is expected to announce that he will run for reelection in 2012 on Monday, CNN reports.

Democratic sources tell the network that the president will alert supporters of his plans in a video sent via email or text message.

Mike Allen wrote in Saturday morning's Politico Playbook that Obama would likely make his plans known on Monday; however, officials would not confirm a specific date "in case some transcendent event in the world would overshadow the kickoff."

Obama aides want to tell their supporters first, and so are not encouraging preview stories by the press. The president's announcement will be transmitted directly to supporters through text messages, e-mail and social media, not with an appearance by Obama, the sources said.

The AP reported on Saturday:

Democratic officials familiar with the president's plans said Saturday that Obama intends to file papers as early as this coming week with the Federal Election Commission to launch his 2012 re-election campaign.
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The officials asked not to be identified in order to speak before the papers are filed.

That widely anticipated but formal step of registering with the FEC will free Obama to start raising money for the re-election effort, which, like his 2008 campaign, will be run from Chicago.

CNN reports:

Two sources tell CNN the campaign team hopes that in total their bundlers will raise $500 million, leaving the campaign to raise another $500 million and amass a record-breaking $1 billion war chest.

Obama secured $750 million in his 2008 political operation for the White House.

For his 2012 reelection campaign, Obama's team will be based at One Prudential Plaza in the Windy City. The location sits just a few blocks away from where the president delivered his victory speech in 2008 at Grant Park.

Jim Messina, who served as deputy chief of staff to Obama for two years until last January, will be Obama's campaign manager for his operation in the next election cycle.

Obama is not expected to face a serious primary challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination. He will likely face off against one of a number of potential Republican candidates currently testing the waters in a general election match-up for the White House in 2012.

Comments

[goingstrong]

09:48 PM on 04/04/2011

Obama will reign again in 2012, not only because he is a great leader and man but because the GOP dont have a single credible contender to stand up to him -to all the h8ers su.ck it up

[chip embere]

09:04 PM on 04/04/2011

Voted for O in 2008. If we are either in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya or some new place next year, I am staying home. There is no point.

[dawlishgal]

08:46 AM on 04/04/2011

I said that he doesn't use it TO TELL THE TRUTH, only to rationalize his capitulations to big corporate interests. He never once made a moral case for single payer or even public option....he couldn't because he had capitulated to the big insurance interests before negotiations even began. Yet, he permitted people to have a faint hope for public option. He asked people to communicate with him, yet he never answers any communications, but he invited big insurance CEOs to the White House and promised them that they wouldn't lose their power to cheat people...sure there will be more policies issued but insurance companies will still be able to wriggle out of honoring the policies, because ERISA will still not allow people who got their policies at work to sue.

Look at what he actually says in these public statements.....never any kind of moral initiative of the kind that were so easily advocated during his campaign. Those are GONE...it is all about how he is stuck and can't do anything because of his circumstances. Apparently, nobody ever told him that a real leader uses the bully pulpit to advocate for the public good, not to try to weasel out of abandonning the public good in order to keep corporate support.

Take a look at the people he chose for his administration....not one single one who knows how to achieve any positive changes, if, indeed, they wanted any changes, which clearly they don't. Rahm Emanuel, indeed.

[thereisonlyoneparty]

01:57 PM on 04/04/2011

It does not matter now.

Even now the president and his people are expecting him the wave of support to carry him through the election.  And it probably will.  Most people are not going to criticize their guy.  You saw it with President GW Bush and you are seeing it now.  No matter how much he is screwing up he is still their guy and they have to support him.

[SlurmsMcKenzie]

09:29 PM on 04/04/2011

I agree there is only one party and it is the party of the very rich and the people they laugh at.

[laterthanyouthink]

07:05 AM on 04/04/2011

Would someone please post a list of words known to trigger the censorbots?

Wait ....

[dawlishgal]

12:03 AM on 04/05/2011

I don't think there is a list of words, but rather personal attacks that are frowned upon. The slimy Limbaughbots get around this by criticizing all liberals and calling them the usual silly names, , and it seem unfair not to be able to retailiate by calling them "dolts" or something like that.

[laterthanyouthink]

07:00 AM on 04/04/2011

My coffee tastes really good this morning.

[laterthanyouthink]

06:59 AM on 04/04/2011

AIPAC doesn't really care who you put in office.

[lovergirl59]

06:55 AM on 04/04/2011

OBAMA JUST LAUNCHES HIS 2012 RE-ELECTION-WOW THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ON HIS AGENDA FOR TODAY, I GUESS LYBIA, JAPAN, ECONOMY, UNEMPLOYMENT, THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IS LAST ON HIS AGENDA

[Dick Stone]

06:00 AM on 04/04/2011

I have had about all of the Hope and Change that I can stand. How about someone that will address jobs, debt, education, and did I say jobs.

[lovergirl59]

06:07 AM on 04/04/2011

I have HOPE AND CHANGE--i hope we will change the guy who is in the WHITE HOUSE in 2012

[Chuckles71]

12:20 PM on 04/04/2011

Nice! Fanned #50

[onedivasinger]

01:50 PM on 04/05/2011

And I hope that people who sat on their cans waiting for hope and change will continue to support people who have brought us nothing but greed and fraud will continue to do so. Seems that the public needs a more dramatic lesson of right wing governance before they realize that hope and change takes citizen participation and advocacy and not posting in pajamas to move the country forward. Nice try though.

[Cheryl Jackson-Edwa]

05:50 AM on 04/04/2011

OBAMA HAS MY VOTE AGAIN!!!!

[lovergirl59]

05:57 AM on 04/04/2011

I RATHER VOTE FOR CHRIS CHRIST

[lovergirl59]

05:57 AM on 04/04/2011

CORECTION: CHRIS CHRISTI

[Iam12Vote]

06:51 AM on 04/04/2011

That's Corpus...

[tjkenn]

05:49 AM on 04/04/2011

I don't mean to steal the man's thunder, but I have an announcement myself. I won't be voting for him....

[moephoto]

04:54 AM on 04/04/2011

Nothing good has ever come from voting Republican. If you disagree, please give me an example.

[Kemo Corleone]

05:06 AM on 04/04/2011

Abraham Lincoln led the North to victory and slavery was ended.

Of course the party has changed a bit since then

[Patriot86]

05:23 AM on 04/04/2011

The election of Abraham Lincoln precipitated the blo_odiest w_ar in our history. Perhaps a less controversial leader could have talked the South down...and avoided this very difficult conflict...even the first Republican president brought war and suffering to this country albeit for a noble cause...the more recent Republican presidents love wars that are meaningless. Ask any one who lives in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, New Jersey and now Pennsylvania if they are sorry they elected GOP governors and the unqualified answer is yes...polls indicate that the GOP governors could not be elected today. I believe buyers remorse will lead to a big loss for the GOP in 2012.

[goingstrong]

05:12 AM on 04/04/2011

uhm...wait, Richard Nixon created the EPA back in the 60's (?) and he was a Repub - now the Pubs are busy trying to tear it down and pretend it was the Democrats idea...so thats one good thing that has come out of Pubs but other than that, they only serve to show how badly we need a Democratically run govt

[Dick Stone]

06:08 AM on 04/04/2011

Yeah, another one like Jimmy Carter. Ask people that were adults during that period how great things were. There have been bad Presidents on both sides, and plenty of bad politicians on both side. Unfortunately it is always having to choose between the lesser of two evils.

[moephoto]

04:50 AM on 04/04/2011

This will be the first time I will ever donate to a Presidential Campaign. WhooHoo! Obama 2012!

[HighPlainsBlogger]

04:48 AM on 04/04/2011

Mr. President.

You are a tireless fighter (for all the poeple of THESE UNITED states )
You are a champion ( for equality among all people )
You are a visionary ( that sees a STRONG America leading into the future)
You are a compassion­­­ate man ( that makes the time for less fortunate in your busy schedule)
You are a leader (that charts a course needed to be taken )
You are dedicated ( to trying to be the best you can be daily)
You are a role model ( for fathers and parents everywhere with your strong family)
You are a tactician ( of the highest magnitude)
You are sensible man ( that realizes where and how to strive for common ground)
You are a transcende­­­ntal figure ( giving hope to all around the world -myself included)

You are a human being
-like us all .
-doing your best .
-regardles­­­s of daily polls

in this world of hostility ...and anger ..and confusion ..

++++++++++­­­++++++++­+­+­++++++­++­++­++++­+++­+++­++­++++­++++­­+++++­++++­+­++++­+++­+
----------­­­--------­-­-­------­--­--­----­---­---­--­----­----­­----(­(( CLAPPING )))-------­­­--------­-­-­------­--­--­----­---­---­--­--
++++++++++­­­++++++++­+­+­++++++­++­++­++++­+++­+++­++­++++­++++­­+++++­++++­+­++++­+++­+

---and for that ..I thank you SIR.

Regards,
HPB

[goingstrong]

05:14 AM on 04/04/2011

beautifully written thank you F&F

[s00wut]

05:14 AM on 04/04/2011

Flunky's back...

[Shari Hodges]

04:40 AM on 04/04/2011

It's that "wonderful smile" that get me

[Shuey37]

04:52 AM on 04/04/2011

I like the big ears.

[goingstrong]

05:13 AM on 04/04/2011

me too!

[lovergirl59]

05:54 AM on 04/04/2011

i guess you like putting needles in your eyes

[x1cness]

04:34 AM on 04/04/2011

With a really weak Republican field, why not look for a strong Democratic primary challenger?

[moephoto]

04:55 AM on 04/04/2011

No need, we already have the best man for the job.

[x1cness]

04:59 AM on 04/04/2011

Really, where is he and what is his name?

[goingstrong]

05:15 AM on 04/04/2011

yup, sure do