David Plouffe

Obama Campaign Manager Meeting With House Dems

WSJ | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics


David Plouffe, the campaign manager for Barack Obama, is expected to meet with House Democrats Wednesday, the first meeting of a top Obama campaign st...

Obama Campaign Manager Airs Cash Woes In Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama's campaign is known for its fundraising success. But today, campaign manager David Plouffe sends out a message to supporters warning of R...

Sam Stein

Attention To Detail: Obama's General Election Strategy

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...

Seth Colter Walls

Plouffe: Obama "Enormously Competitive" In Over A Dozen Battleground States

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics


David Plouffe is a tough interview to get. When the Wall Street Journal ran a profile of Barack Obama's campaign manager last week, they relied on the...

Obama: Not Having to Say Victory

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Obama has won. He won't trumpet that fact now, despite the smear campaign the Clinton camp has been waging saying he will. He'll let everyone with access to a pencil stub and the back of an envelope declare for him.

Yes They Can: CBS Goes Behind The Scenes With The Obama Campaign

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 ...

Obama Strategist: Race Won't Be A Problem In The General Election

National Journal | Linda Douglass | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics


Obama's campaign strategist David Plouffe spoke with the National Journal's Linda Douglass about the state of the campaign. When asked about a possib...

Sam Stein

Obama Camp: Using Popular Vote Metric Just Ain't Gonna Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


As the Clinton campaign turns its focus towards securing the popular vote in the Democratic primary, the response from the Obama campaign has been, an...

"Big Tent" Re-Opens: Obama Campaign Reverses CA Delegate Purge

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 04.11.2008 | Home


Nathaniel Bach

Responding to supporter outcry, the Obama campaign reversed itself and reinstated all 900 of the delegate candidates it cut from the rolls across California.

How Hillary's PA Campaign Is Like Bush's Pre-War Intelligence About Iraq

Steven G. Brant | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics


Steven G. Brant

With the Clinton campaign's pre-existing determination to find any weakness in Obama that they can exploit, Plouffe's memo is being treated as a document that reveals that Obama has given up on PA.

David Plouffe: Clinton One Of "Most Secretive Politicians In America Today"

Huffington Post | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics


The Obama campaign is returning to the issue of Clinton's secrecy today, after spending a conference call yesterday lambasting the lack of tax returns...

Ohio Polls: Obama Tied With Clinton

Beverly Davis | Posted 03.01.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

Outspending, out-spinning, and most important, out-organizing the Clinton campaign, Senator Obama has nearly pulled even with Senator Clinton in Ohio...

Obama Campaign Manager In North Carolina

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics


David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, was spotted in Raleigh, in John Edwards' home state of North Carolina, the Raleigh News and Observer reports...

Hillary Clinton Speaks to Crowd 12,000 Strong in El Paso

Pamela Leavey | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics


Pamela Leavey

I wonder if the Obama team ever listens to Clinton's stump speeches, because clearly she's not politicking in the way either Obama, his surrogates or supporters claim she is.

Obama Claims New Lead

Ari Melber | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

The Obama campaign manager says that he won 9 more delegates than Clinton, based on a pledged delegate estimate conducted overnight by analysts in the campaign's Chicago "boiler room."

Obama Team Sets Sights On Post-Super Tuesday Prizes

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 01.29.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

In a conference call with the reporters today, Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe said that his team is already "aggressively organizing" in the s...

Obama Raised $5 Million Online Since South Carolina Win

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics


Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, stressed on a call just now that Obama is going up on the air in all of the February 5 states, and is ramping...

Obama Aide: Clinton Is 'Prohibitive Favorite' In Nevada

Washington Post's The Fix | Chris Cillizza | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics


The Nevada caucuses are still three days away, but the battle over what the eventual results will mean began in earnest this afternoon when The Fix re...

Spinning the Press for Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 12.31.2007 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

At the final Obama rally of the day, in southside Des Moines, David Axelrod lifts phrases from the stump speech Barack Obama has given not five minutes before to answer press questions.

Why is Obama in Bed with Karl Rove?

Larry C. Johnson | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics


Larry C. Johnson

While posing above the fray, but executing Rove's strategy and exploiting Novak's innuendo, Obama has embraced the audacity of hype.

This is What Barack Obama Should Tell Bob Novak: "Put Up or STFU!"

Rod McCullom | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics


Rod McCullom

If there is anything "scandalous" to the Robert Novak column, it's the fact that Obama's not-ready-for-prime-time team actually fell for it.

Roadkill: OffTheBus's Daily RoundUp of the Awkward, the Ugly, and the Just Plain Weird

Off The Bus | Posted 09.05.2007 | Home


Off The Bus

Barbara Richardson described her role as first lady of New Mexico and the candidate's wife, saying "Do I sit in on his meetings? No, nor do I care to."


 

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