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Road to Charlotte: Obama in Virginia President Obama campaigns in Norfolk en route to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, which begins Tuesday.
Sept. 4, 2012
President Obama reaches up to touch hands after a speech during a campaign stop at Norfolk State University’s Madison Hall Quad in Norfolk.
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Sept. 4, 2012
Supporters listen to President Obama’s speech during a campaign stop at Norfolk State University's Madison Hall Quad in Norfolk.
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Sept. 4, 2012
Obama advisers David Plouffe, left, and David Axelrod laugh backstage as President Obama makes a speech during a campaign stop at Norfolk State University’s Madison Hall Quad in Norfolk.
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Sept. 4, 2012
An Obama supporter looks out from the crowd as the president makes a campaign stop at Norfolk State University’s Madison Hall Quad in Norfolk.
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Sept. 4, 2012
President Obama makes a campaign stop at Norfolk State University before heading out to Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention.
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Sept. 4, 2012
A Secret Service agent watches over the crowd during President Obama’s speech at Norfolk State University's Madison Hall Quad in Norfolk.
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Sept. 3, 2012
Spectators watch as Air Force One glides skyward at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. President Obama made the trip to look over the damage caused by Hurricane Isaac.
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Sept. 3, 2012
President Obama flashes a smile as he makes his entrance during a campaign stop at Scott High School in Toledo.
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Sept. 3, 2012
President Obama makes a campaign stop at Scott High School in Toledo, where he spoke to 3,000 supporters. He told the Labor Day crowd of union workers that he “bet on American workers” when his administration provided $85 million in government loans to General Motors and Chrysler in 2009, contrasting his record with that of Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who Obama told the crowd wanted to “let Detroit go bankrupt.”
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Sept. 3, 2012
Earlean Belcher, 63, of Maumee, Ohio, attends President Obama’s campaign event at Scott High School in Toledo. “I am a staunch supporter of our President Barack Hussein Obama,” she said. “I feel like if someone else is elected — Mitt Romney — the possibility is there that he will overturn [the Obama administration’s] health-care system, and as I age I need that in my life.”
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Sept. 3, 2012
President Obama appeals to an enthusiastic crowd for their vote during a campaign stop at Scott High School in Toledo. “I believed in you. I bet on you,” Obama said to the Labor Day crowd of union workers. “I’ll make that bet any day of the week, and because of that bet, three years later that bet is paying off for America. The American auto industry has come roaring back.”
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Sept. 3, 2012
President Obama tousles a young boy’s hair as he works the rope line during a campaign stop at Scott High School in Toledo.
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Sept. 3, 2012
Supporters wore T-shirts and hoisted signs showing enthusiasm for President Obama's second term as he made a campaign stop at Scott High School in Toledo.
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Sept. 2, 2012
President Obama waves to the crowd during a campaign stop at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Sept. 2, 2012
Supporters crane for a view of President Obama as he works the rope line during a campaign stop at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Sept. 2, 2012
President Obama makes a campaign stop at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In Boulder County, where Obama spoke, voters handed him a resounding 72 percent in 2008. He was the first Democrat to win Colorado since Bill Clinton in 1992.
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Sept. 2, 2012
President Obama makes a campaign stop at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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Sept. 1, 2012
President Obama makes a campaign stop at Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa. The president has made seven trips to the state since the year began.
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Sept. 1, 2012
Matt Berninger and his band, The National, warm up the crowd before President Obama's arrival at a campaign stop at Living History Farms.
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Sept. 1, 2012
President Obama waves to the crowd following his speech as Sen.Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), right, looks on during a campaign stop at Living History Farms.
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Sept. 1, 2012
Supporters cheer during President Obama's speech at a campaign stop at Living History Farms.
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Sept. 1, 2012
President Obama at the podium during his speech at Living History Farms. He criticized the agenda the Republicans set at their recently completed national convention in Tampa.
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Sept. 1, 2012
President Obama speaks at a campaign stop at Morningside College, Hilker Campus Mall in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Sept. 1, 2012
The crowd fills a farmyard as President Obama makes a campaign stop at Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa.
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![Earlean Belcher, 63, of Maumee, Ohio, attends President Obama’s campaign event at Scott High School in Toledo. “I am a staunch supporter of our President Barack Hussein Obama,” she said. “I feel like if someone else is elected — Mitt Romney — the possibility is there that he will overturn [the Obama administration’s] health-care system, and as I age I need that in my life.”](/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/09/03/Others/Images/2012-09-03/OBAMA112_1346686200.jpg)
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