Obama brings out the Presidential Seal at campaign events

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(CBS News) — The seal is back.

For the first time at one of President Obama’s re-election campaign events, his lectern displayed the presidential seal.

It had been the policy of the Obama White House that the presidential seal would not be displayed at purely political and campaign events.

The policy ended today at Mr. Obama’s campaign speech on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where the presidential seal adorned his lectern.

Until now, a campaign sign was often affixed to the lectern at campaign events. Earlier in the day, at a campaign speech in Poland, Ohio, a placard bearing the slogan “Betting on America” was affixed to the lectern. The same was the case yesterday at other stops on his bus tour.

Displaying the presidential seal serves to enhance the prestige of the event and contrast Mr. Obama’s incumbency from Mitt Romney’s status as a challenger.

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