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WASHINGTON — Democrats could get walloped in the November elections. The party gets sleepy and distracted. And its supporters simply might not show up to vote.

Those aren’t hopeful predictions from Republicans. They’re the dire warnings of President Barack Obama.

“I hope that just because I’m not on the ballot that people aren’t going to take it easy this time, because the ideas I care about and am fighting for are on the ballot,” Obama said to about 75 donors who paid $5,000 to $20,000 to hear him speak Wednesday at a swanky Boston art gallery.

The president is seeking to gin up enthusiasm for the midterm elections from party activists already looking toward the 2016 race to replace him.