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President Barack Obama's Chicago-based re-election campaign has a hometown problem: the donors and volunteers who have lost interest after launching his run for the White House four years ago. The glow of the epochal election of the nation's first African-American president has faded amid a dramatic fall in the president's popularity, a persistently lousy economy and an administration that has been less transformative than promised.<snip>...Mr. Obama's home-state tallies so far are below where they were at this point in the last election cycle, when, unlike now, he faced a slugfest in the primary. As of June 30, Mr. Obama had raised $1.5 million from individual donors in Illinois, compared with $7.5 million by June 30, 2007.
