We will turn out an army of 40,000 AFSCME activists to knock on doors, make phone calls, and talk with their co-workers and neighbors to produce an unprecedented turnout in the 2008 election.
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The United Mine Workers of America endorsed Barack Obama for president Wednesday despite his recent defeats in primaries in coal-pr...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Two big representative endorsements for Barack Obama today: Rep. Henry Waxman and Rep. Howard Berman. It brings today's number of superdelegate endor...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics
Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly endorsed Obama this morning, moving Barack's gap to the nomination 149 delegates. The press release is below. UPDATE: New ...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The American Federation of Government Employees endorsed Barack Obama Friday, giving the Illinois senator fresh momentum toward cap...
MSNBC News | Ken Strickland | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
North Carolina Congressman (and superdelegate) Brad Miller today will endorse Obama, according to his office. Miller represents the 13th district, wh...
Joseph J. Andrew | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
My endorsement of Obama will not be welcome news to my friends and family at the Clinton campaign. They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics
There are a number of reasons I could cite. But simply put, he has made a call to the better angels of our nature.
The Huffington Post | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama has picked up another superdelegate endorsement, this one from New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman. It is Obama's 14th nod from a fellow senato...
Financial Times | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama goes into Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary as strong favourite, whatever happens, to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet the...
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
BOSTON — Former Clinton Cabinet member Robert Reich on Friday endorsed Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the battle for the Democratic...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has apologized for comments he made about Sen. McCain that were reported in the Charleston Gazette: "McCain was a figh...
Des Moines Register | Thomas Beaumont | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said Hillary Clinton's criticism of the Iowa caucuses and Barack Obama's advantage among independent voters would weigh on his de...
Joshua Roman | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home
Lee Hamilton's endorsement proves Barack Obama is ready. Evan Bayh's endorsement proved to voters he wanted to be Hillary Clinton's Vice President.
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
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...
Wall Street Journal | Susan Davis | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Former Democratic presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson finally made up his mind and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama today, but a seni...
Daily Kos | Bradical | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
In what must be the most despicable, unprofessional news article that I have ever read on Faux News... The front page of FoxNews.com shows an article...
NY Times' The Caucus | Jeff Zeleny | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
With a six-week interval between primaries, the Democratic presidential candidates have a little more time on their hands after a chaotic string of we...
Cass R. Sunstein | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
Not so long ago, the phone rang in my office. It was Barack Obama. For more than a decade, Obama was my colleague at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also a friend.
Rolling Stone | Jann Wenner | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
The tides of history are rising higher and faster these days. Read them right and ride them, or be crushed. And then along comes Barack Obama, with th...
Evan Handler | Posted 03.02.2008 | Entertainment
When I voted in the California primary less than four weeks ago, I pulled the lever for Senator Clinton. I now believe I was wrong.
The Hill | Sam Youngman | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) endorsed fellow Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) Friday, as Obama continued to weather criticisms from rival Sen. Hillary Rod...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Dodd describes his "not comfortable" discussion in which he informed Hillary about his decision: At a Cleveland press conference with Obama, ...
Michele McNeil | Posted 02.19.2008 | Home
As Democrats continue to fight over who should be their nominee, the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association, wants to re...
AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama won the support Friday of the 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union, his second endorsement in...
Today, Barack Obama posted a message to supporters on my.barackobama.com about the...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
I've been running VoteVets.org for a couple of years now. In 2006 and in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
From Media Matters: On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the...
Today the New York Times reports on a jaw-dropping addition to the medical spa trend. Now comes...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
PARIS — A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people...
The bottom-up political movement that Barack Obama has been so fervently encouraging may have come too...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics