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Anonymous Democratic Strategist Claims White House Discouraged Fox News Appearances

LA Times | Peter Nicholas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

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At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presi...

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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David Axelrod On H1N1 Vaccines: 'We Overpromised'

NPR | Weekend Edition Saturday | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

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David Axelrod, President Obama's senior adviser, says the administration based its predictions about how many doses of the H1N1 vaccine would be avail...

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Axelrod Blames Chicago Loss On IOC Politics (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2009 | Chicago

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White House aide David Axelrod thinks that internal politics at the International Olympic Committee are responsible for Chicago's unexpected early eli...

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Taking Things Off the Table

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Obama absolutely loves the phrase "everything's on the table." But the time for piling "everything" on "the table" is over. Everything being on the table means that no decisions have been made.

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White House Shifts On Public Health Care Option

AP | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's top political adviser is backing away from having a government health care plan compete against private carriers...

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White House: Obama May Detail Health Care Goals In Speech, Shift Strategy

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, faced with falling approval ratings and increasingly impatient with Senate negotiations over health care, i...

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With New Strategy White House Plays Last Card on Health Care: Lead a Bipartisan Bill or Risk a Defining First Year Failure

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home

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The public option has to be minimized and renamed. Co-op is now a loaded a term; try 'non-profit optional choice for those who have no insurance' instead.

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David Axelrod On Why He Left Journalism: The Emphasis Went "From Reporting To Receipts"

Chicago Sun-Times | The Biz of Baseball | Posted 07.15.2009 | Media

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President Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod divulged a few secrets of his college days today as he told 1,300 journalism and other DePaul Universit...

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Axelrod: A Sotomayor Filibuster Would Be Shameful Politics (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama's senior adviser said on Sunday that if Senate Republicans were to attempt a filibuster on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, it woul...

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GPICT: Fighting Epilepsy (So Kids Don't Have To)

Rachel Sklar | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

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CURE is a nonprofit organization co-founded by Susan Axelrod in 1998 to raise funds and awareness to improve the lives of those with epilepsy, and hopefully one day find a cure.

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Susan Axelrod Discusses Epilepsy Fight On "Morning Joe" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Susan Axelrod, wife of White House Senior Adviser David, went on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss her campaign to find a cure for epilepsy, born out o...

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Obama's First 100 Days Are A Bogus Metric, Axelrod Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

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The mystique of the first 100 days of a president's first term in office is certainly one of Washington's odd creatures. A rather arbitrary partition ...

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Axelrod: We Can't Afford To Get "Bogged Down" In Bush Investigation Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Remarks made by Obama senior adviser David Axelrod on Monday provide the clearest indication to date that the White House is not only uninterested in ...

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Axelrod: Obama Has Made Anti-Americanism Uncool

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Responding to the somewhat overwrought critique that Obama did not properly stand up to hostile Latin American leaders during a trip to the region thi...

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Axelrod Smacks Down Cheney: Not Acting Like A Statesman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics

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The president's senior adviser, David Axelrod, shot back at Dick Cheney on Sunday, suggesting that the former vice president had failed in the war on ...

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Susan Axelrod Discusses Epilepsy Battle On MSNBC (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

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Susan Axelrod, wife of President Obama's chief strategist David, discussed her daughter Lauren's epilepsy on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday. Watch: ....

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Reading The Pictures: www.sowingseedsofdissension.democrats.gov

Michael Shaw | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media

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With the country in a shambles, the media wouldn't want the Democrats getting off to a rocky start, would it?

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David Axelrod: A Tale of Two Firms

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

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ASK is known for "Astroturfing," manufacturing grassroots support and using traditional strategies used to elect politicians to promote public policy. ASK draws the line at working for anyone who wants to get elected.

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