Obama Endorsements

Nation's Largest Education Union Endorses Obama's Re-Election

AP | Posted 09.03.2011

CHICAGO -- The nation's largest education union has endorsed President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. Members of the National Education As...

Obama's Endorsements Fail Democrats

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama may end up playing a rather hands-off role in this fall's elections, a surprising turn for a political pheno...

Dick Cheney's Hometown Paper Endorses Obama

Editor & Publisher | Posted 05.25.2011

For the past six weeks, we have chronicled the landslide in newspaper endorsements for Barack Obama (our new daily will be ready in a short bit here)....

Obama Support Could Get Police Superintendent Reprimanded

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

A Chicago alderman wants police Supt. Jody Weis to be disciplined for making a statement in a TV interview earlier this month that seemed to support B...

Stephen Colbert Endorses (But Does Not Support) Barack Obama (VIDEO)

Comedy Central | Posted 05.25.2011

Faced with an overwhelming number of prominent conservatives receiving media face time for endorsing Obama, last night Stephen Colbert did the only se...

Anchorage Daily News Endorses Obama

Anchorage Daily News | Posted 05.25.2011

Alaska enters its 50th-anniversary year in the glow of an improbable and highly memorable event: the nomination of Gov. Sarah Palin as the Republican ...

"Bernanke Endorses Obama," WSJ Says

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

Ben Bernanke apparently wants four more years as Federal Reserve Chairman. At least that's a reasonable conclusion after Mr. Bernanke all but submitte...

Chicago Sun-Times Endorses Obama

Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE The Sun-Times published its endorsement of Barack Obama on its Web site Friday night: Our endorsement for President of the United States go...

Obama Nearly Endorsed By Chicago Police Superintendent

Posted 05.25.2011

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis appeared to endorse Barack Obama during an interview with ABC 7 earlier this week. In a story about the dema...

Obama Scores 15 Newspaper Endorsements On Sunday, McCain Zero

Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama picked up at least 15 newspaper endorsements this weekend, including six in swing states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina an...

Jason Linkins

Paper Endorses First Democrat For President In 72 Years: Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

The Record, of Stockton, California, may not be the most well-known of newspapers, but they have been, for a number of decades, one of the most consis...

Former Presidential Candidate Endorses Obama

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Bryan Young

Former Presidential Candidate Savage Dragon announced today his intention to endorse the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. Some of you ma...

Mine Workers union endorses Obama for president

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The United Mine Workers of America endorsed Barack Obama for president Wednesday despite his recent defeats in primaries in coal-pr...

Superdelegate Endorsements Follow Primary Contests

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Hillary Clinton received an endorsement from add-on Ohio superdelegate Craig Bashein this morning: "Hillary brings a wealth of proven experience in b...

Obama Superdelegates: Waxman And Berman

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Two big representative endorsements for Barack Obama today: Rep. Henry Waxman and Rep. Howard Berman. It brings today's number of superdelegate endor...

Superdelegates Continue To Flow To Obama

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Despite Hillary Clinton's sizable victory in West Virginia last night, the Obama camp has rolled out two more superdelegates this morning. Rep. Pete ...

Obama Starts Off The Day With Superdelegates

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly endorsed Obama this morning, moving Barack's gap to the nomination 149 delegates. The press release is below. UPDATE: New ...

Evan Bayh, Hillary Supporter, Discourages Superdelegates From Endorsing

Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

With his state's critical primary in two short weeks, Democratic Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh -- a strong supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- has be...

Obama Endorsed By Financial Times

Financial Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama goes into Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary as strong favourite, whatever happens, to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet the...

Jimmy Carter Hints At Obama Endorsement

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

The Nigerian paper This Day reports that the former president all but came out for Obama, speaking to reporters in that country: We are very inte...

Obama Endorsed By 9/11 Commission, Iraq Study Group Co-Chair Lee Hamilton

AP | TOM DAVIES | Posted 05.25.2011

INDIANAPOLIS — Former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president Wednesday, praising his ability to transcend partisan d...

Progressive Blogs DailyKos, Open Left Officially Endorse Obama

Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 05.25.2011

So today the Blue Majority sites (dKos, Swing State Project, and Open Left) added Barack Obama to our ActBlue fundraising page. All three sites held v...

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Bill Richardson Explains Why The Other Superdelegates Should Vote With Their States

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

When asked by CNN's John Roberts why, if he advocated superdelegates voting with their constituents, was he backing Obama, Richardson claimed Roberts was getting "technical."

The Other Bill

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

This is almost like an exhalation, a tension break: about two former opponents who always liked each other now coming together out of a common hope and dream.

Obama Endorsed By Bill Richardson

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

PORTLAND, Ore. — Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, threw his support behind Barack Obama for president Friday, delivering on...