When will Obama endorse Clinton and will he campaign actively?

[Sir Mohamed]

With Biden out of the race, when will President Obama endorse Clinton formally? And will he campaign for her? I see him in potential a role to convince blacks to get out and vote.

[Asian Nazi]

He will wait until Clinton clinches the nomination and/or Sanders-O'Malley drop out before endorsing her, as it's seen as unseemly for a modern sitting President to pick favorites in the party primary.  He'll probably start actively campaigning for her once the general election campaign kicks into full gear, unless his approvals tank again and Clinton asks him not to.  Either way he will certainly be used to help bring blacks and college students to the polls.

[TarHeelDem]

Obama is a great campaigner. Clinton would be nuts not to use him, unless his poll numbers are below 40% at that point, which I doubt.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

He will endorse Sanders

He'll endorse her as soon as Sanders withdraws. I imagine he'll campaign for her in the 2012 battlegrounds, but not in areas like GA - where he is unpopular but Clinton is still likely to spend a ton.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I'll be different and say the day before Super Tuesday to give her the extra push to knock Sanders out of the race.

[Higgs]

I don't know when he will endorse her, but he will do so eventually.

As for whether he will campaign actively, his approval ratings will dictate that decision. His approval ratings right now are around 50%. If they remain at that mark next year, he should campaign for her. If they drop below 40%, then he should stay quiet. I remember Bush didn't campaign vigorously for McCain in 2008.

eh, not really http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html

[I support Sanders]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

[Lief 🗽]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

lol no

[Maxwell]

Obama is going to endorse Trump, obviously.

[Fusionmunster]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

[IceSpear]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

You really think the sitting president of the United States is going to endorse a socialist or a guy polling in single digits?

[Suburbia]

Obama is a great campaigner. Clinton would be nuts not to use him, unless his poll numbers are below 40% at that point, which I doubt.

[I support Sanders]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

You really think the sitting president of the United States is going to endorse a socialist or a guy polling in single digits?

If Obama endorses O'Malley, O'Malley would no longer be in the single digits. Obama has called Sanders, O'Malley, and even Chafee (a former Republican who was at 0% in the polls) "excellent" candidates (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-calls-omalley-sanders-and-chafee-excellent_972411.html). No one forced him to call any of them "excellent," and if he felt like it, he could have left Sanders' name out, as he did Jim Webb's.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

Did she ever say he should have a primary challenger though? That's a lot more than just petty criticism.

[Eraserhead]

There's no chance of him endorsing Sanders or O'Malley. Don't be silly, guys.

If Clinton wins both Iowa and New Hampshire huge, he may just endorse her after those. There's a good chance that Sanders will just drop out if he loses both of those big anyway.

However, if Sanders wins either or both of those then the race is probably going to go on for a while and I wouldn't expect him to get involved in it.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

Did she ever say he should have a primary challenger though? That's a lot more than just petty criticism.

Bernie never said Obama shouldn't be re-elected, and campaigned for his re-election.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

Did she ever say he should have a primary challenger though? That's a lot more than just petty criticism.

Bernie never said Obama shouldn't be re-elected, and campaigned for his re-election.

Of course, because Obama was the lesser of two evils for him in the general. But that doesn't change the fact that he was trying to get Obama defeated in the democratic primaries.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Once Clinton secures the nomination, as is tradition.

[Eraserhead]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

Did she ever say he should have a primary challenger though? That's a lot more than just petty criticism.

Bernie never said Obama shouldn't be re-elected, and campaigned for his re-election.

Of course, because Obama was the lesser of two evils for him in the general. But that doesn't change the fact that he was trying to get Obama defeated in the democratic primaries.

He merely said that Obama getting some competition from the left in his primary would be a good thing. He didn't even say that he would endorse the competition. 

[BlueSwan]

He will endorse her, but probably not before march, when the primary is effectively over anyway.

He will absolutely be used in the general. If I was Clinton I would have been campaigning extensively in states like Virginia, Colorado and Iowa, where Obama might have more pull with voters than Clinton.

[Zache]

It's not a given that he will endorse her. It is still possible that he will endorse Sanders or O'Malley.

SANDERS: "So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him and I think it would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing. […] So I would say to Ryan [sic] discouragement is not an option. I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/07/22/277124/bernie-sanders-primary-obama/

I don't think Sanders has any chance of getting Obama's endorsement, Sanders himself made sure of that...

LOL, as if Hillary never criticized Obama.

Did she ever say he should have a primary challenger though? That's a lot more than just petty criticism.

Bernie never said Obama shouldn't be re-elected, and campaigned for his re-election.

Of course, because Obama was the lesser of two evils for him in the general. But that doesn't change the fact that he was trying to get Obama defeated in the democratic primaries.

He merely said that Obama getting some competition from the left in his primary would be a good thing. He didn't even say that he would endorse the competition. 

How could anyone around in the 2011 political climate think that would have been a good idea?

[DS0816]

The president won't endorse while the primary season is still underway and the necessary delegates have not yet been reached.