Obama: Electoral votes make nice birthday gifts

By Jim Kuhnhenn

Associated Press

Published: Thursday, Aug. 2 2012 3:16 p.m. MDT

President Barack Obama waves to supporters at a campaign event at Rollins College, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in Winter Park, Fla.

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Summary

President Barack Obama has a simple wish for his upcoming 51st birthday: Florida's 29 electoral votes.

WINTER PARK, Fla. — President Barack Obama has a simple wish for his upcoming 51st birthday: Florida's 29 electoral votes.

Supporters in suburban Orlando sang "Happy Birthday" to Obama during a campaign rally on Thursday, an early nod to his birthday on Saturday. The president says his birthday wishes probably involve "electoral votes," adding, "Winning Florida wouldn't be a bad birthday present."

Obama is expected to keep a low profile on his birthday, spending the weekend at Camp David, the private presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin (kuh-TAHK'-tin) Mountains.

But presidential politics will get the birthday treatment. The president is holding a birthday-themed fundraiser at his family home on Chicago's South Side on Aug. 12.

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