David Axelrod actually said...

I think that his belief is that voter mobilization is the key and that he can be helpful in some of these close races by spurring people to ...

This is a time for mobilization. And he is trying to get every Democrat out that typically in midterm elections... there is a drop-off.

He thinks that this works. He thinks he is profiting from it politically.

You can't deliver a, you know, homilies about unity in the Oval Office during the day and then run off to rallies at night where you deliver...