Obama Stumps for Dems, but Not On Campaign Trail

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(CBS) Voters in Kansas, Michigan and Missouri go to the polls today to select candidates ahead of the November general elections.

CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante says that if you think Democratic candidates everywhere are asking President Obama to stump for them, well, you'd be wrong.

Democrats hold a comfortable 39-seat majority in the House of Representatives but are in real danger of losing that majority to the GOP. The president will do his part to help retain control of Congress, but a lot of his work will be behind the scenes.

On Monday Mr. Obama came out swinging at the minority party, but with an approval rating at 44 percent, he fired his shots from a Democratic fundraiser, rather than at a candidate's campaign event.

"It'd be one thing if Republicans had seen the error of their ways, right?" he told a crowd in Atlanta. "I mean, if after the rejections of 2006 and 2008, realizing, 'Gosh, look at this big disaster that we caused and taking record surpluses into record deficits and causing all this hardship - we're going to rethink our approach and go out in the wilderness for a while, come back with some new ideas!' But that's not what happened.

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