Obama Volunteers

Obama Campaign Launches Massive Recruiting Effort

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 01.05.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — Volunteers flocked to Barack Obama last time. This time, the president's campaign is in recruiting mode. Without a primary chall...

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Martin Luther King Day Of Service: Obamas Volunteer At Middle School

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday by joining a painting project at a school on Capitol ...

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Don't Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down For the Sins of the Blanche Lincolns

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Suppose you simply can't stomach your local Democratic candidates? Suppose you're simply too furious at their compromises and retreats? Then make phone calls or donate to those you do respect, but don't abdicate entirely.

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The 12 Week Plan: A Road Map to Not Getting Our A**es Kicked on November 2

Billy Wimsatt | Posted 05.25.2011

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You think you're unhappy now under Obama, Pelosi and Reid? Wait until the guys who drove the car into the ditch for eight consecutive years get their hands back on the steering wheel.

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Obama Serves Meals To Needy On MLK Day

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama served plates of steaming hot lunches to the needy Monday, one of several ways the nation's first black pres...

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The Obamas Giving Back: Volunteering In 2009

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some ways that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have participated in community service activities: ___...

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Obama Volunteers Recruit Travelers to Maine

Paul Hogarth | Posted 05.25.2011

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The right treats Maine as ground zero in their effort to halt the march towards marriage equality, so defeating Question 1 on Nov. 3rd can have a national impact in the fight for same-sex marriage.

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RED the Book: How to Turn Teenage All-About-Me-ism into Altruism

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 11.17.2011

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Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.

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What Next, Obama Volunteers?

Dave Belden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama appealed to his volunteers to join a new organization, Organizing for America. Can an elected politician start a mass grassroots movement? Can it work to promote major change?

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This Is a Call

Daniel Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

This is a call to you, Generation Obama. We must show the equal enthusiasm to our communities as we did in getting out the vote.

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A Twentysomething's Guide to Going Green

Tracy Hepler | Posted 05.25.2011

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As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement.

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Your Very Best Friend, Barack

Victoria Lautman | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.

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Every Morning Voting in Rural VA

Adrienne Birecree | Posted 05.25.2011

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My husband and I got up at 5am this morning so we would be at our polling place before it opened at 6am. We definitely knew where we were going. If w...

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Messages from the Obama Campaign Nerve Center

Hilary Lambert | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Ohio is the tip of the spear!" That's the kickoff phrase of the Obama campaign's Red, White and Blue Teams Volunteer packets, containing instructions for the hundreds of Obama campaign workers who are hunkering down across Ohio.

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Campaigners Have Heavy Presence at Philly Polls

James Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Campaigners for both political parties are not lagging around with their vote, and they are making sure that you don't either with tables and chairs l...

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Family Votes McCain, But That Doesn't Stop This Obama Supporter

Chidimma Ozor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Speirs is president of Steinbeck Communications, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm, whose clients include top companies in the gaming indus...

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Inspiration Comes to Ohio

Hilary Lambert | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning I saw Barack Obama speak on the steps of the Ohio statehouse. I finally understood something. I felt things I don't think I've ever felt.

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Teary 86-Year-Old Volunteer Meets Obama (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/YouTube | Anya Strzemien | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Alexander is an 86-year-old Obama campaign volunteer from Boulder, Colorado. He won a raffle to meet Barack at the rally in Denver on October ...

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College Students Travel to New Hampshire to Volunteer for Obama

Mary Ann West | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the quintessential town of Keene, New Hampshire, volunteers waved as cars honked in support while standing on the picturesque Village Common, hoist...

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Obama Airs Two Prime Time Ads in McCain's Home State

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Marlene H. Phillips and Dawn Teo For the first time in this presidential election, Barack Obama has aired not one but two prime time ads in my sta...

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'Rednecks for Obama' Rally in Springfield

Susie Hoeller | Posted 05.25.2011

My friends, a couple and their two young girls, and I drove from Arkansas, two hours north to Springfield, Missouri for the Obama rally held Saturday ...

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Ohioans Vote Early in Large Numbers

Claudia Cruz | Posted 05.25.2011

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An off-week for the Ohio State football team possibly swelled the number of Franklin County Ohio voters that stood outside of Veterans Memorial to vot...

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Starting an Obama Group Gives Supporter Confidence, Diverse Community

Stefanie Fontanez | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was shortly after watching Barack Obama speak for the first time that Megan Meagher turned to a friend and said "I have to do something. I've never...

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Volunteer Invigorates Local Headquarters

Sheryl Z. White | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a young child walking to school he would recite a rhyme that he learned from his grandmother - "Truman's in the White House eating bread and jelly....

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Retired Social Worker Connects for Barack on the Phone

Andrew Sprung | Posted 05.25.2011

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In July 2008, Roz Blau, was looking for the next major connection in her life. Recently retired after a 27-year career as a social worker, she had mov...

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