BY OLYMPIA MEOLA
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign will open its Virginia headquarters this weekend in downtown Richmond and a Petersburg field office the following weekend.
The two metro area posts will join field offices in Fairfax and Newport News as hubs for 2012 election activity around the state, according to campaign official.
Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, D-3rd, is expected to join supporters for the Richmond office opening on Saturday in the 400 block of E. Main St.
The offices are signs of the infrastructure that the Obama camp has been dusting off and building up in the run-up to the 2012 election, now just 10 months away.
Obama was the first Democrat to win Virginia’s electoral votes since President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Virginia will likely be key swing state again this year.
The campaign says that since April, it has reached out to nearly 300,000 Virginians and held more than 4,000 grassroots events across the state.
