JACKSONVILLE, FL.–Barack Obama stumps here, Charlotte, N.C. and Manassas, VA. Obama tapes an interview with ESPN to air halftime at the Monday night Redskins-Steelers game.
Michelle Obama is at rallies in Las Vegas and Littleton, Col.
Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers
Pool Report #1 – Jacksonville, Fla.
8:40 a.m. Motorcade departs the Hyatt for a short ride to Gold’s Gym. Obama emerges, in a ball cap and black sweats with a white stripe, and heads in to the building. Reggie Love and Eric Whitaker are with him. Perhaps two dozen local workers gather outside their offices by the gym and across the street over the course of the next 45 minutes to await his exit. At 9:25 a.m., he emerges, and those locals cheer and clap. He is smiling wide and waving to all. “Oh, he’s so cute!” shouts out one woman in her 20s or 30s who appears to work at the bank a couple doors down from the gym entrance. Then she and her female coworkers start squealing and laughing. No interaction with the pool. Return to hotel 9:28 a.m.
