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printed in advance, and some editions of the Sept. 9 Local Liv- ing section included incorrect dates for American Century The- ater’s “The Tenth Man.” The pre- viewsonSept. 15and16havebeen canceled; the show will open Sept. 17.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 Obama says aide is focused on job

Emanuel has balancing act if he wants to run for Chicago mayor

BY ANNE E. KORNBLUT President Obama declared

Thursday that his chief of staff would be an “excellentmayor” of Chicago—adding that he did not expect Rahm Emanuel to decide about launching a mayoral bid until after themidtermelections in seven weeks. The remarks illustrated the

difficult box Emanuel now finds himself in.His boss needs himto remain focused on the White House and trying to stave off a disaster on Nov. 2. A mayoral campaign in Chicago — which Emanuel has dreamed of for years, and which has not been open for more than two decades — would require him to start planning almost immediately to raise the estimated $4 million required (he has about $1.2 mil- lion in his campaign coffer) and assemble thousands of signa- tures and precinct workers be- fore the primary in February. In the four days since Chicago

Mayor Richard M. Daley an- nounced he would not run for another term, Emanuel hasmen- tioned his aspirations in passing during meetings at the White House.Hehas assured colleagues that his head is still in the national game, several of them said.But his allies are increasing- ly sure Emanuel is about tomake the jump back to local politics — a possibility underscored by

Obama’s willingness to speculate about it on television this week. “He is an excellent chief of

staff. I think right now, as long as he is in the White House, he is critically focused onmaking sure that we’re creating jobs for fami- lies around the country and re- building our economy,” Obama said in an interview, aired Thurs- day, with George Stephanopou- los on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And you know, the one thing I’ve always been impressed with about Rahmis thatwhen he has a job to do, he focuses on the job in front of him. And so my expectation is, he’d make a deci- sion after these midterm elec- tions. He knows that we’ve got a lot of work to do. But I think he’d be a terrificmayor.” With that near-endorsement

from the president, colleagues said they think that Emanuel’s mayoral bid is all but a done deal, leaving only the question: What are the odds he would win? He might not have as much of

an advantage as it would appear. While Emanuel is a national

figure, that cuts both ways with interest groups, including labor unions and immigration advo- cates angry at him because they think he has not done enough on their behalf during his time at theWhite House. “There is already in Chicago

sort of forming an ‘anybody but Rahm’ coalition,” saidDick Simp- son, a former alderman who is now head of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times made a similar point Thursday, saying black and His- panic caucuses in the racially

divided city were already meet- ing to pick their candidates. Public-sector unions and im-

migrant groups, meanwhile, are “really mad at Emanuel because they don’t feel like the promises made going into this administra- tion are promises kept,” said Carol Marin, a political analyst for the Sun-Times and Chicago NBC affiliate. Still, Marin said, Emanuel may be able to wait until after Nov. 2 to declare his intent. “All of the stuff that he must do [now] is behind-the- scenes kind of stuff,”Marin said. When Daley steps aside in

May, Chicago will have been run by him or his father for 43 of the past 55 years. But theDemocratic machine they once controlled no longer exists. City politics are fragmented, a factor that makes it impossible for any single can- didate to sail toward coronation. Running for Congress, Eman-

uel benefited from Daley’s pull and the efforts of patronage orga- nizations, particularly in his first race. He worked on public hous- ing issues for Daley and re- mained loyal when members of the mayor’s circle faced trial on charges of unfair hiring. Yet his former congressional

district was just a slice of Chica- go, and some of the city’s 50 aldermen were quick to paint himas an outsider, gone too long and too often fromthe city. His most formidable oppo-

nent, should he decide to run, likely would be Tom Dart, the Cook County sheriff, said Don Rose, a longtime political adviser and commentator. Dart is a lik- able Democrat well known for refusing to evict people who fell

behind on their mortgages dur- ing the financial crisis. He has been building his own political organization of loyal precinct captains and committeemen, and has toiled for Daley’s opera- tion. “Dart’s as close as anybody to

having universal recognition now, and it’s all positive,” Rose said. “All of the things people know about him are good-guy stuff. There’s nothing divisive.” To win, Emanuel would have

to rebuild the money machine and the political organization that carried himinto Congress— and then greatly expand it. “He does not have the ma-

chine. Themachine itself isweak and balkanized, and it will be- come more balkanized because so many aldermen and commit- teemen are talking about filing,” Rose said. While some politicians have

spoken of the importance of electing a woman or an African American to the mayor’s seat, no black or female candidate has emerged to build the electoral coalition that would be required. Presumably Obama would be able to help rally the African American electorate. But a for- mal White House endorsement would have to come first, some- thing White House press secre- tary Robert Gibbs said was pre- mature to assume, saying it would be “hard to make that judgment not knowing who the candidates are.” kornbluta@washpost.com

Staff writers Peter Slevin in Chicago and Felicia Sonmez inWashington contributed to this report.

Obama to stump at big Democratic rallies

Clinton’s midterm campaigning may offer lessons for president

BY KAREN TUMULTY President Obama plans to re-

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turn to the campaign trail in a big way this fall, with four major rallies planned in the crucial states of Wisconsin, Pennsylva- nia, Ohio andNevada, as well as a “tele-town hall” in which he will talk to core supporters at thou- sands of gatherings across the country and over the Internet. The events are designed to

evoke thegoodol’days of 2008.To many Democrats and the liberal faithful, the sight ofObamain full cry back on the stump will be a glimmer of light in an otherwise dim election season. Obama’s appearance in Cleve-

land on Wednesday felt much morelikearallythantheeconom- ic policy speech it was billed as. In his address, he attacked Republi- can criticism of his economic policies. That kind of campaigning is

precisely what Democrats on Capitol Hill have been begging him to do, arguing that no one is better than Obama at laying out the distinctions between their party and the GOP. They also say he is their best hope for revving up the party’s dispirited liberal base. But is any of this likely to help

the Democrats inNovember? A lesson from not-so-distant

history may give them pause. In his memoir, “My Life,” for-

mer president Bill Clinton re- called playing a similar role in the

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President Obama’s address in Cleveland, in which he attackedGOPcriticism of his economic policies, felt more like a rally than the economic policy speech it was billed as.

1994 midterm elections, in which his party lost control of theHouse and the Senate. Clinton later regarded the

stumping as a mistake: “My cam- paign riffs were effective for the party faithful, but not for the larger audience who sawthem on television; on TV, the hot cam- paign rhetoric turned a states- man-like president back into the politician the voters weren’t sure about.” Some Clinton-era veterans

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worry that Obama might be mak- ing a similar misstep now, and point to his decision to go to Cleveland, whereHouseMinority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) gave his own economic speech a week before. “Did anyone in America even

know that Boehner had given a speech?” one Clinton White House strategist asked.

“This was definitely the best speech we’ve gotten from him since he’s been in the White House.”

—Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post editor, speaking of Obama

Obama slammed Boehner’s re-

marks, saying they offered “the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place: Cut more taxes for millionaires and cut more rules for corporations.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

(D-Calif.),whowouldhave to turn over her gavel to Boehner if Re- publicans win back the House in November, touted Obama’s speech as a message to voters. The president “delivered a clear choice for Americans today: the Democratic vision for a stronger economy and a growing middle class versus the Republican plan to take us back to the exact same failed Bush policies of the past, cutting taxes for the wealthiest 2 percent, huge deficits and fewer jobs,” Pelosi said. Huffington Post Editor Arian-

naHuffington, speakingWednes- day on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” said: “This was definitely the best speech we’ve gotten from him since he’s been in the White House. There’s no question that he drewa clear line in the sand. It was really more like a moat that he filled with man-eating croco- diles.”

Obama remains more popular

than congressional Democrats, but Clinton’s experience suggests that approval may not be trans- ferable—and that it could actual- ly hurt the party if the president starts looking like just another politician. Clinton’s approval rating had

risen above 50 percent, he wrote in his memoir, but adviser Dick Morris warned against taking that popularity on the road. As the former president re-

called, Morris told him that “I should stay off the campaign trail and remain ‘presidential,’ saying and doing things that would rein- force my higher ratings. Morris believed that would do more to help the Democrats than my plunging back into the political fray.” Clinton tried to do that, but “I

wassurprised to findmy schedule packed with trips to Pennsylva- nia, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Is- land,NewYork, Iowa,Minnesota, California,Washington and Dela- ware.” He also wrote, “Going back on

the campaign trail, while under- standable and perhaps unavoid- able, was a mistake.” That mis- judgment was confirmed on Elec- tion Day, when “we got the living daylights beat out of us.” Obama’s first rally will be on

Sept. 28 in Madison, Wis., and will focus on young voters. The other events will be in October in Philadelphia, an unnamed site in Ohio and in Las Vegas. The election is two months

away, and Democrats are already second-guessing the president. But for Obama, as was true for Clinton, there may be no alterna- tive to plunging into the fray when so much is at stake for his party.

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