Obama’s Out Of Gas: Nothing New To Offer But Mocking Romney

Obama resumes campaign by appealing to young voters, mocking convention

(FoxNews.com) President Obama resumed his campaign Tuesday at the exact hour Republicans  began their convention activities – as Obama starts a three-state trip this week  that his campaign hopes will steal some of the national spotlight and help win  over college-age voters.

Obama began the trip at Iowa State University with a full-force plea to  hundreds of students for their vote, just as he did in 2008.

“It’s all up to you,” Obama said amid a backdrop of students in yellow or red  Iowa State T-shirts. “I’m asking you one more time.”

Obama is locked in a tight re-election bid against Republican candidate Mitt  Romney, who arrived Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla., for the storm-shortened GOP  national convention, scheduled to conclude Thursday after he accepts the party’s  nomination.

With about 10 weeks remaining before Election Day, both candidates are  looking for every possible voter – including 18- to 24-year-olds, who turned out  four years ago in record numbers to help elect Obama.

About 49 percent of them voted in 2008, compared to 47 percent in 2004 and an  historical rate of about 40 percent.

In his roughly 32-minute speech on the Ames, Iowa, campus, Obama touted a  list of accomplishments for which he gave the students credit while taking a jab  at Romney and the convention.

He cited increases in student aid and less dependency of foreign oil during  his term, then told the students: “You made that happen. You made that  change.”

Obama said the convention “should be a pretty interesting show” and predicted  to those in the crowd that Republicans will not offer “a path forward.”

The president also suggested Republicans refer to Romney’s health care plan  as “Romney Doesn’t Care” – a comeback for critics calling his health-care reform  law “ObamaCare.”

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