50 State Strategy

Orange County's Steve Young on Obama's "50 State Strategy"

Cristina Chang | Posted 08.05.2008 | Home

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Cristina Chang

Can the "50 state strategy" help the down-ticket candidates? I sat down with a proud liberal trying to unseat a conservative incumbent in California.

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Exclusive Interview: An M.I.T. And A Yale Professors' Cure For The Electoral College

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...

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The New South and Obama: An Interview with Josh Segall, Alabama Democratic Candidate for Congress

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

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Nathaniel Bach

Obama's fifty-state strategy is not about his winning these states in this election. It's about "trickle up" politics and grassroots efforts on a national scale, all of which will help sow the seeds of future Democratic majorities.

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Obama: Operation Blue Mountains

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

The ground continues to shift to Obama in deep red territory. Montana, Nebraska and the Dakotas battleground states? Believe it. Obama is on air and on the ground, and for now he is running unopposed.

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Dems' Southern Campaign: Howard Dean Goes To Dixie

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is embarking on a voter registration bus tour he hopes will help push Dixie to t...

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Republicans No Longer Have Lock On Idaho

WS | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Bill Sali is defying the political odds by making Idaho's first-district congressional race competitive. That isn't good for Mr. Sali: He is the incum...

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Take A Look: Democratic and Republican Party Headquarters Nationwide (SLIDESHOW)

Amanda Michel | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

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Amanda Michel

Starting last week OffTheBus's Special Ops members set out on their first assignment assignment to check out what was going on at local and state party headquarters across the country. In this slide show you'll see what a handful of what our team of citizen-reporters found (and didn't find) when they hit the ground.

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The Story of the Race So Far -- the Surprising Weakness of John McCain

Simon Rosenberg | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Simon Rosenberg

McCain is a weak and bumbling candidate, ill-suited for a presidential race, and is still struggling to bring his party together. His polling numbers have slipped from the low 40s to 38, 36 -- and now 33.

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Life Is A Picnic For Democrats In Alaska

Amanda Coyne | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home

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Amanda Coyne

When the FBI arrived in 2006 brandishing warrants, the official Democratic Party line was: "It's a sad day for Alaska." But many of us could barely contain our glee. We'd been screaming about corruption forever.

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Obama Should Go North To Alaska

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Alaska is going to be very close this year. This stems from Republican office-holders apparently trying to take the "first in political corruption" award away from Louisiana.

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Nico Pitney

Dems Not Backing Obama? Rahm Will Deal With It

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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As the man who guided (and pressured and arm-twisted) Democrats to historic congressional gains in 2006, what is Rep. Rahm Emanuel doing now about par...

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Political Legacy and the 2008 Election

Dylan Loewe | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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Dylan Loewe

Like Hoover and Carter, Bush will have unintentionally laid the groundwork from which a paradigm-shifting candidate can take the country in an entirely new direction, once again.

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