Obama to NYC supporters: 'Move to North Dakota'

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http://news.yahoo.com/obama-nyc-supporters-move-north-dakota-004441027--sector.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has a modest, tongue-in-cheek suggestion for people in New York City who support his agenda: move to North Dakota.

The idea drew laughs in what was otherwise a somber speech at a $32,400-per-ticket fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the posh Upper East Side apartment of investment banker Blair Effron, co-founder of Centerview Partners.

In the second of two fundraisers on Wednesday, Obama bemoaned how Democrats face some "structural disadvantages" in elections - winning with large margins in places like Brooklyn but losing to Republicans in red states.

Obama described buying cheesecake at Junior's Restaurant in Brooklyn in October while campaigning with Bill de Blasio two days before the mayoral election.

"The streets were filled, everybody was waving," he recalled, describing being hugged by a woman whose sister got health insurance because of Obamacare.

"'We love you - what can we do to support you?'" he recounted the woman saying.

"I said, 'Move to North Dakota!"

"If I could just get about a million surplus votes in Brooklyn out to Nebraska, Wyoming," he said, drawing laughs from the crowd of about 50 people.

Obama has been busy on the fundraising trail ahead of November midterm elections, where Republicans are expected to retain control of the House of Representatives, and Democrats face a tough fight to retain control of the Senate.

Democrats traditionally have a difficult time getting supporters motivated to vote in midterm elections.

"We have to break that cycle," Obama said, explaining he needs a Democratic-controlled Senate to help him advance his agenda to fight climate change and reform immigration laws in his last two years in office, 2015 and 2016.

"I have to have partners in Congress," he said.

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"I said, Move to North Dakota! If I could just get about a million surplus votes in Brooklyn out to Nebraska, Wyoming..."

That's right, folks. The President has just endorsed the idea of one state's citizens invading another's.

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What he wants is actually happening. The dim controlled states are losing population - because they're high tax, business unfriendly, high crime and a few other things; and these people are moving to GOP controlled states - lower taxes, business friendly, etc. The trouble is that these people who voted for the dim policies that ruined their previous state are bringing their same voting patterns to the previously GOP states.
Red states are turning purple.

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What he wants is actually happening. The dim controlled states are losing population - because they're high tax, business unfriendly, high crime and a few other things; and these people are moving to GOP controlled states - lower taxes, business friendly, etc. The trouble is that these people who voted for the dim policies that ruined their previous state are bringing their same voting patterns to the previously GOP states.
Red states are turning purple.

Exactly! The idiots do not seem to grasp why the red states are doing well or were before they got there!