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NPR: Obama Backers Return To Streets To Push Plans

President Obama’s grass-roots political machine has been reactivated for a weekend door-knocking crusade designed to sell the administration’s economic plan — and its record-busting $3.6 trillion budget.

But the task for the Organizing for America volunteers — tapped from Obama’s prodigious campaign e-mail and donor lists — is expected to be markedly more difficult than it was to sell the candidate before last November’s election.

Volunteers don’t have a candidate to sell, as they did before, and no Election Day end date on which to focus.

Instead, they will be pitching the president’s long-term economic and domestic agenda at a time when bailouts, bonuses and bad deficit numbers have been dominating the national conversation.

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