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\n 4 April 2011<\/span>
\nLast updated at <\/span>06:45 ET<\/span>
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US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to stand for a second term in office in 2012.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama’s team released a video on his official website<\/a> and sent an e-mail to supporters announcing his plans.<\/p>\n

The president has an online network of millions of Americans and his web campaign was widely seen as a key plank of his election success in 2008.<\/p>\n

The announcement was widely expected, and his campaign team are set to file election papers this week.<\/p>\n

In an e-mail to supporters, quoted in the US media, Mr Obama said the campaign would start small and grow over time, “with people organising block-by-block, talking to neighbours, co-workers, and friends”.<\/p>\n

“So even though I’m focused on the job you elected me to do, and the race may not reach full speed for a year or more, the work of laying the foundation for our campaign must start today.”<\/p>\n

Unveiling a new look for Mr Obama’s campaign website, his team told supporters: “The idea is to improve upon what’s worked for the past four years, scrap what hasn’t, and build a campaign that reflects the thoughts and experiences of the supporters who’ve powered this movement.”<\/p>\n

After the ‘shellacking’<\/span><\/p>\n

A number of Republican presidential hopefuls are expected to seek the nomination to run against Mr Obama.<\/p>\n

However as it stands, Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, is the only leading candidate to have formally declared his candidacy.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama took office in January 2009 with near-record approval ratings, but has seen his support fall during his first two years in office.<\/p>\n

In November 2010 Mr Obama’s Democratic Party lost control of the House of Representatives and shed several Senate seats in mid-term elections to Congress.<\/p>\n

The president called the result a “shellacking” and vowed to listen to the concerns of US voters.<\/p>\n

Despite shedding some support, polling by the Pew Research Center suggests<\/a> Mr Obama is in a stronger position at this stage than either former presidents Bill Clinton or George W Bush, both of whom went on to win re-election convincingly.<\/p>\n

In polling carried out in March, some 47% of registered voters said they would like to re-elect Mr Obama, with just 37% saying they would vote for an as-yet-unknown Republican candidate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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