President Obama “ventured into Red America on Thursday and Friday to sell his economic agenda to small but polite audiences, and along the way he tried to demonstrate that both he and his ideas could travel anywhere in the country, even to the parts where he is deeply unpopular,” the New York Times reports.
Obama Pitches Economic Goals in Red States
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