Barack Obama Florida

The Alison Effect

John Koch | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics


John Koch

My sister lives in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the more conservative cities in the state. Alison is a registered Republican and has voted that way every four years. Now she is voting for Obama.

Florida For Obama

Bill Marovitz | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago


Bill Marovitz

Come the evening of November 4th, we will be on a new path to change the direction of our country and tell the whole world that the America they used to respect is back.

Phone Banking For Obama In Florida: Enthusiasm And Racism

Salon | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


In recent weeks, a calm certainty seems to have settled over most of the liberals I know. After the last two elections, I can't convince myself to be ...

Obama Sends Top Generals To Florida

The Atlantic | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign's top two field generals have decamped to Florida, a sign of its confidence that the state, with 27 electoral votes, is tilting tow...

Palin Pushes Florida Undecideds To The Left

St. Petersburg Times | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


Five weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong distrus...

Obama Camp Manager: We Need Money For Florida

Politico | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics


In a new video sent out with a fundraising email to supporters, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe celebrates McCain "admit[ting] finally that the e...

Obama's Florida Dominance: 9,785 More Ads

WSJ | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics


In Florida's living rooms, the presidential contest so far has been a landslide -- Barack Obama, 9,785; John McCain, zero. That is the tally of local...

Obama: Bad Economy Could Help Me Win Florida

Washington Post | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama's two-day campaign swing through economically hard-hit areas of Central Florida and John McCain's country concert extravaganza in the Pan...

Sam Stein

Obama 'Months Ahead' Of Gore/Kerry In Organizing Florida

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Sen. Barack Obama is set to open more than a dozen offices in Florida in the next two weeks alone, a commitment of resources that his campaign says wi...

Florida Could Hinge On Black Vote

Miami Herald | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


State Sen. Frederica Wilson had a question for Barack Obama the last time he was in Miami and gave a speech at a posh, downtown hotel: When was he com...

Obama Winning Florida Money Race

Miami Herald | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics


Democrat Barack Obama outraised Republican John McCain by nearly $500,000 in Florida in June, validating his decision to rebuff limited public campaig...

Florida Voter Registration Shows "Huge Swing" Towards Democrats

South Florida Sun Sentinel | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics


An escalating number of voters registering as Democrats is providing evidence that the 2008 election could produce a wave of support for Barack Obama ...

Obama's Florida Compromise: Delegates Count For Half

Election Central | Eric Kleefeld | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama is now floating a compromise on the Florida situation, telling the St. Petersburg Times that one idea would be to cut the delegations' si...

Axelrod On Florida, Michigan: We'll Go More Than Halfway

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics


NPR just sent out a press release with excerpts of an interview Obama Chief Strategist David Axelrod gave "All Things Considered" host Michele Norris,...

Obama, Clinton signal Florida boycott over

AP | BRENDAN FARRINGTON | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The boycott is over. Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will both be in Florida on ...

Obama To Florida Superdelegates: Delegates Will At The Convention

McClatchy | Lesley Clark | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama says Florida's delegation will be at the national Democratic Party's convention this summer, ''happy, with their party hats on,'' two unc...

Obama, Not Clinton, Pressing For Florida Delegate Solution

The Buzz | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


The Hillary Clinton campaign has yet to express any interest in negotiating a solution to Florida's delegate mess, but a couple key Barack Obama staff...

Florida Superdelegate Introduces New Argument To Seat The State's Superdelegates

Democratic Convention Watch 2008 | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home


Starting to percolate on the newswire is an appeal by DNC Floridian Jon Ausman. He is stating that DNC rules prohibit the Rules Committee from: a.) s...

Max Follmer

Price Tag Precludes Re-Vote In Michigan And Florida

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The controversial Florida and Michigan Democratic primaries will most likely not be rescheduled, as some activists have recently demanded, according ...