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Big Donors Have Shunned Pro-Obama Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The push to raise unlimited contributions by a super PAC backing President Barack Obama's reelection has run into a number of hurdles si...

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Obama-Allied Super PAC Hires Former Kerry Campaign Manager

The Huffington Post | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2012

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President Barack Obama's allied super PAC is getting a major staffing boost as it struggles to compete with its conservative counterparts for resource...

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Obama-Endorsed Super PAC Priorities USA Action Improves Fundraising

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.20.2012

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Priorities USA Action, a super PAC endorsed by President Barack Obama, reported its best fundraising month with a March haul of $2.5 million, accordin...

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Priorities USA Chairman: Maher Comments Have 'No Similarity' To Limbaugh's

The Huffington Post | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 03.08.2012

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In the wake of the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's derogatory remarks about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, conservatives have accused the left ...

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Obama Signed Off On Super PAC Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Details are beginning to emerge about the Monday night announcement that President Barack Obama's reelection campaign would lend its sup...

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Russ Feingold: Obama Super PAC Reversal Will Lead To 'A Legalized Abramoff System'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) ripped into both President Barack Obama and his re-election team on Tuesday morning for backing off i...

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Why Romney's Super PAC Stance Doesn't Make Sense

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In Monday night's GOP presidential debate, Mitt Romney attempted to sidestep questions about a pro-Romney super PAC by stating there was...

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David Axelrod: Network Of Outside Democratic Groups Looks 'Rather Minor,' Will Be Outspent

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Outside Democratic groups launched a broadside attack on former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney this past week, ...

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Obama Campaign's Cavalry Takes Shape

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a bare-bones room on the second floor of an office building blocks away from the Capitol lies one of the more influential political o...

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Obama's Body Man Reportedly Plans To Leave The White House

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2012

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Reggie Love, President Barack Obama's personal aide, is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year, The Washington Post reported. A k...

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Super PACs Give Potential Late 2012 Entrants, Like Chris Christie, Time To Decide

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A potential candidate who waits too long to launch a presidential run will be too far behind in the race to raise the necessary dollars ...

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Democratic Group Raises Millions To Counter Republican Attack Ads

AP | JACK GILLUM | Posted 09.30.2011

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WASHINGTON — An outside group founded this spring by two former Obama White House advisers has raked in millions in donations since April, relyi...

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Super PACs, Nonprofits Running 2012 Proxy Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican outside groups are in a proxy war, testing messages in dueling million dollar advertising buys in the run-up t...

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1st 2012 Presidential Ad Uses Gingrich's Words To Swipe Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- More than 18 months before the 2012 election, the first advertisement in the presidential race has been released, with a newly formed gr...

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David Axelrod On Sanctioning Secretly Funded Groups: It's Not Healthy 'But It's The System We Have'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.01.2011

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WASHINGTON -- David Axelrod, the president’s senior communications adviser, spent much of the 2010 election cycle warning against the rise of anonym...

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Feingold On Secretly-Funded Obama-Allied Groups: They're 'Playing With The Devil'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The announcement on Friday that two former top White House aides were forming a non-government group underwritten in part by secret dono...

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Desperately Seeking Their Own Rove

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Peter H. Stone Center for Public Integrity Democrats are in a defensive crouch. They have no Karl Rove. Instead, they have David Brock, Bill Burt...

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Obama Has No Further Comment On Park51 Islamic Center

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — The White House says President Barack Obama will have no further comment on the mosque near Ground Zero in New York and ...

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White House: Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Spurred By Mosque Debate Not Yet 'Dangerous'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House has steadfastly refused to weigh in heavily on the debate surrounding the construction of an Islamic cultural center blocks away from ...

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Communications Corruption at White House

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many White House correspondents want to write Obama books. But the kind of books that sell need "inside access" -- and this is something that the communications team doles out minimally.

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White House Shoots Down Regular Question Time Forums

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the widespread popularity of President Obama's question-and-answer forums and the apparent boost they've given to his agenda, the White House ...

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New White House Line Against Fox: It's War

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the most significant exchange on CNN, Communications Director Anita Dunn stressed that Obama now personally views Fox as a partisan opponent, rather than a journalistic organization.

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Obama Golfs With Melody Barnes: Domestic Policy Adviser Is First Woman To Golf With President Obama

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama headed for the links again Sunday, but this time a woman joined him on the green. Melody Barnes, the president's chief domestic polic...

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Snowe Says No Public Option, White House Says "That's Democracy"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Senate Finance Committee will not include a public option in its health care bill, one of the key Republican negotiators said on Friday -- to whi...

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Bill Burton Defends Obama Reaction To Honduran Presidential Coup On "O'Reilly Factor" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton faced an outraged Juan Williams, sitting in for Bill O'Reilly, on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight. Willia...

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