Obama predicts election outcome, inauguration weather

BOULDER, Colo. — While his campaign aides like to say they take nothing for granted, President Obama showed off a little confidence Sunday as he worked the crowd at a Boulder, Colo., restaurant.

Obama didn’t quite predict he would swear in for a second term after the election, but he did predict the weather at the inauguration.

As Obama chatted up diners at the Buff restaurant, a breakfast and lunch place near the University of Colorado campus, Jim Osborne stood up from his meal to greet the president.

Osborne told Obama he had attended the last inauguration.

“It was cold that day,” Obama said. “This one is going to be warmer.”

“I’m looking forward to it,” said Osborne, who said later that he is an attorney from Los Angeles.

“That’s my goal,” Obama said.

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Obama’s weather prediction may be a safer bet than his political one. It was about 28 degrees for his big day, the coldest inauguration since Ronald Reagan’s second, according to National Weather Service website that actually tracks such things.

The president is in Boulder for another college town rally, his fourth in a week. The campaign is trying to pile up new young voter registrations as students return to school. Obama opened his remarks, as he has at each college stop, by urging people to visit a special website for registering voters. And when the crowd booed a reference to Republicans he shot back his favorite replay.

“Don’t boo. Vote!” Obama said to a crowd estimated at 13,000, according to local officials. He joked that the from the looks of the food at The Buff and fun of the Boulder campus, “I could see folks forgetting to vote. They’re having too much fun. That’s why you are so important.”

[For the Record, 1:41 p.m. PST Sept. 2: This post has been updated to include Obama’s appearance in Boulder.]

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