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Obama Hits N.Y. Donors Again to Fill Coffers for Midterms

President Barack Obama marks his sixth straight month visiting New York to raise campaign money for congressional Democrats, who in key races dont want him campaigning beside them.

The president returned to the nations financial capital for three events today, including one in suburban Connecticut.

New York has always been the center of gravity among centers of gravity, said Representative Steve Israel of New York, who leads House Democrats campaign arm.

Obama, who has no public events or speeches scheduled during the roughly nine-hour trip, attended two Democratic National Committee events in New York City, one for about 25 people donating up to $32,400 and a reception with about 250 people, according to the DNC.

He then flew in a helicopter to Greenwich, Connecticut, landing on a polo field and heading to the $10 million house of real estate investor Richard Richman, where is raising money for Senate Democrats.

The president is lending his time and his fundraising prowess to the party, which is trying to hang onto its Senate majority in the Nov. 4 election, four weeks away.

Tonights event in the Conyers Farm development in Greenwich is the 11th Obama has done for the 2014 mid-term elections for Senate Democrats, according to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The tickets cost $10,000 to $32,400, according to the DSCC.

The aura around Obama as president can encourage donations, letting Democrats raise money they couldnt get without him, said Stanley Renshon, a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York who studies political psychology.

To be in the same room, to feel special, even if youre paying for the privilege, is something that a lot of people like to do, Renshon said. Because it makes them feel like theyre important. And the tradeoff is theyre buying their own importance.

At White Street Restaurant in New Yorks Tribeca neighborhood, Obama drew applause from the audience when he talked about raising the minimum wage and improvement in the U.S. economy during his presidency. His remarks near Wall Street about minimizing risks for the banking sector were met with silence.

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Obama Still Hunts for a Catchy Slogan

Once more President Barack Obama is determined to win the future. After a long hiatus, he is again talking about putting the American economy on a new foundation. But when it comes to speaking with utter clarity, his interest has never waned.

Let me be clear, he likes to say and keep saying.

The Obama presidency is littered with catch phrases and rhetorical devices, enthusiastically embraced and summarily discarded as tastes and political needs change. None has piqued the publics imagination. Six years into his tenure, Mr. Obama is still casting about for a slogan as punchy and enduring as FDRs New Deal, Lyndon Johnsons Great Society or even his own 2008 campaign mantra: Yes We Can.

In todays short-attention-span politics, every president needs a motto. And the Obama presidency has been in search of a clear theme from Day One, said Stephen Farnsworth, author of the book, Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves.

Mr. Obama came into office promising to put the nation on a new foundation, a phrase he had come up with himself in crafting his inaugural address in 2009. He used it 103 times in various speeches and statements in 2009-10, according to speech texts compiled by the American Presidency Project at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Then he stopped.

Americans went three years without hearing Mr. Obama discuss his new foundation. Some didnt miss it. Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin once said the phrase reminded her of foundation girdles,the womens undergarments.

Yet in June 2013, while seeing off top economic adviser Alan Krueger, the president trotted it out once more, telling the audience that weve cleared away the rubble of (economic) crisis and laid a new foundation for growth.

Since then he has used the phrase at least 19 more times, the universitys records show.

A slogan with even less staying power was Win the Future. It popped up in an Obama speech at a community college in North Carolina in late 2010, as he made the case that both parties should set aside narrow differences and work in bipartisan fashion to help the country win the future.

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