5 signs Team Obama is worried the president may lose

As the economy veers off the rails and the GOP field takes shape, the president's re-election campaign is letting its frayed nerves show

A volunteer receptionist works the phones at President Obama's re-election headquarters in Chicago: Team Obama hardly seems confident that a 2012 victory is a sure thing.
(Image credit: Frank Polich/Getty Images)

President Obama's re-election campaign only launched three months ago, but his advisers are already "making moves that suggest they’re awfully concerned about his prospects," says Josh Kraushaar at National Journal. We won't learn exact details of the first round of election-season fundraising numbers for Obama and his GOP rivals until mid-July, but even if Obama's haul is strong, the economy isn't. Here, five ways Obama and his re-election team are signaling their 2012 jitters:

1. Tooling with Obama's economic message

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