The Alison Effect
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.
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.
Bill Marovitz | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
John Koch | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics