News a few days old, but none the less pertinent for this thread:

Obama to run Re-Election campaign from Chicago

The decision bucks recent history. Every two-term president in the last 30 years — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan — set up his re-election campaign offices near the White House or in suburban Virginia.

A Chicago base offers plenty of advantages: The city is loaded with longtime loyalists, many with fundraising muscle. It also provides easy access to Midwestern battleground states that Obama must court: Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

And it's far enough from Washington to avoid those unwelcome political consultants who, as one Democratic strategist put it, are "trying to get a piece of the ad money and always in your ear offering their two cents."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-...d-campaign-base