Obama Team Starts Work On Presidential Transition
With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation's 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning...
With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation's 44th president, Sen. Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning...
Kansas City Star | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
How much would Barack Obama love to win Missouri? Let us count the staffers... 148, 149, yes, 150 ... The Democrat's campaign said Tuesday it is tri...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
WHO: Democratic National Committee Chairman Governor Howard Dean and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius WHAT: Press conference call to discuss the ...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
FARGO, N.D. — It will be a red-state Fourth of July for Barack Obama, who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue-state Dem...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
WHO: Ambassador Robert Gelbard and Senior Policy Advisor Dan Restrepo WHAT: Press conference call to discuss Barack Obama's Latin American polic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
On Wednesday, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, gave a lengthy presentation on general election strategy to members of the press. I...
Peter Birkenhead | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Obama seems to be the only one of the three Presidential candidates who does not defiantly hold himself above moral imperfection, and who, ironically, likely seems aloof to his critics precisely because he is the most at peace with his own flawed humanity.
New York Observer | Steve Kornacki | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
The Massachusetts Democratic primary, along with nearly two dozen other primaries and caucuses, was held on Feb. 5. Hillary Clinton won it by 15 point...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media
This is interesting: Last night, Katie Couric ran a behind-the-scenes look at the campaign of Barack Obama on the "CBS Evening News," featuring such ...
Washington Post | Shailagh Murray | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Pivoting to general election mode, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced a 50-state voter registration drive that will kick off four days after the M...
Catherine Geanuracos | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Our goal is to get young people who are already supporting Barack's candidacy to talk directly to their parents and convince them to support him.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
By not blasting and firing Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary is taking away the outrage against Republicans when they trot out the same seedy arguments during the general election.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.12.2008 | Home
When you add Obama's many gifts and abilities as a candidate to the fact that he has a special appeal to many in the black community, I don't think it's difficult to see why Rep. Ferraro called him "lucky."
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 03.11.2008 | Home
Power's candid comments sent the Obama campaign scurrying and invited the Clinton campaign and the media to rain a storm of fire on their heads, and underscores the reason for the paucity of candor in our political process.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Hispanic community leader Adelfa Callejo, 84, said yesterday that Barack Obama would have trouble gaining Latino support because Black politicians hav...
Beth Arnold | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
Obama could co-opt a cache of Republican voters and beat the GOP candidate in November, when Hillary and the Clinton baggage would be stuck in their own mud.
Off The Bus | Posted 01.18.2008 | Home
An OffTheBus tipster in San Francisco noticed that Obama volunteers have set up shop in the former home of West Coast Growers, your one-stop-shop for...
Amanda Michel | Posted 01.07.2008 | Home
Lebanon, NH -- With recent polls showing him firmly ahead of his Democratic rivals, a confident Barack Obama seems to be looking past the primary seas...
Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs | Posted 01.01.2008 | Home
The crowds were immensely different. Hillary was an older, seemingly more sophisticated crowd. Obama's crowd was younger and more energetic.
CamPain2008 | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Watch video by CampPain2008 of Obama signing like a Bollywood star. Read more about the video here. ...
Politico | Mike Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
In a reversal of fortune, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is barnstorming Iowa with a front-runner's swagger while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) scr...
Carolyn Castiglia | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
Barack, my friend Marie and I both cried at your rally. If you can make girls cry, you're as big as The Beatles.
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Marc Ambinder | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics