Obama makes stop in Los Angeles, wraps up campaign swing

President Barack Obama has already started rallying supporters for his 2012 presidential campaign. STORY HIGHLIGHTSThe president urges an audience that includes Hollywood moguls to help get him re-electedParticipants include Jamie Foxx and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio VillaraigosaMore than 2,500 campaign contributors attend one event Obama holds six fundraisers over two days Los Angeles (CNN) -- Despite switching an audience of tech executives for Hollywood moguls, President Barack Obama on Thursday night made the same plea for help in his re-election as he wrapped up a two-day West Coast campaign swing in Los Angeles.

At the first of two fundraisers on the lot of Sony Studios in Culver City, Obama told an audience of about 100 guests he needed the same commitment from them in 2012 that drove them to support his unlikely candidacy four years earlier.

"Let's face it, it was not likely that I was going to end up in the Oval Office," Obama said of his supporters' grassroots efforts in his first campaign.

Obama told the audience that included Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and actor Dennis Haysbert that with the power of incumbency also comes an even tougher electoral atmosphere in the next cycle.

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