At 4pm tomorrow Monica Coleman will open her home to about 30 friends and neighbours. They will eat some snacks, watch a video and help to demonstrate how - for all his problems - President Obama still has a powerful army behind him.
Her party in Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of more than 3,000 across America this weekend by the street-level activists who helped to propel Mr Obama to victory last year. “We're here to watch his back,” Ms Coleman said. “Winning the election was only the beginning and now we must be his soldiers again.”
It is the first occasion since November that the President has deployed the massed ranks of his volunteers. His campaign machine, now calling itself Organising for America, issued the mobilisation call last week to a database of 13 million supporters.
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