RT @palpitt Obama: Donate your Twitter icon for stimulus http://is.gd/8E5Ac /via @Laure... - 0 views
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o mark the anniversary of last year's stimulus package, Democrats have been pushing a chart comparing monthly job loss figures under George W. Bush and under President Obama. Now Obama -- or at least his Twitter persona, run by the Democratic National Committee -- is about to ask supporters to help out.
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"OFA supporters are donating their Twitter pictures to mark the anniversary of the #RecoveryAct. Change yours here: http://bit.ly/b-E," the @BarackObama Twitter page will ask its 3.3 million followers Wednesday evening, a source tells Salon.
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The idea is to spread awareness, virally and visually, of the way the administration says the stimulus bill helped pull the economy back from the edge of an abyss. The numbers to produce the chart came from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "The graph tells a convincing story of how we are on the road to recovery," a Democratic source says.