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Jon Ward

Ex-Obama Aides Start Political Consulting Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Three former top campaign aides to President Barack Obama are starting consulting firm, continuing an ongoing trend of former Obama staf...

How Ex-Staffers Make Millions Off Their Obama Connections

www.newrepublic.com | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics

One of the stars of Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was Jackie Bray, a single mother who was laid off in 2011 and struggled for months ...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Senate Democrat, Obama Adviser Split On Gun Control

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Jim Messina, who is leading the effort by Organizing For Action to press for tougher gun laws, has a problem: his old boss. OFA, the ...

Obama Campaign Manager: We Had Our 'White-Knuckle Moments'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics

A little more than four months removed from steering President Barack Obama's reelection bid to victory, 2012 Campaign Manager Jim Messina opened up o...

We Must Act

Peter Lehner | Posted 04.15.2013 | Green
Peter Lehner

The president recognizes that the power to make change doesn't reside only in Washington; it sits within all of us. We can raise our voices, influence our friends, get our lawmakers' attention, and create our own groundswell.

Can O.F.A. and Obama's "Inside-Outside" Strategy Move Congress?

Pearl Korn | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
Pearl Korn

Can P.D.A., the C.P.C. and O.F.A. work together to build a larger coalition? Will Jim Messina reach out to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party? Hey, the president offered a progressive agenda, Jim. Why not?

Paul Blumenthal

Obama Campaign Makes Unprecedented Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama may have run the last campaign of his career, but his political organization is not going away. In an unprecedent...

Obama Deploys Campaign List to Hammer GOP on Taxes and Discharge

Ari Melber | Posted 02.10.2013 | Politics
Ari Melber

The Obama campaign is pitching a new online calling tool, which enables people to call their Republican representatives or, if you live in a blue area, to call fellow Obama supporters in redder pastures and urge them to get on the phone. That's pretty sophisticated activism.

Mark Blumenthal

How The Obama Campaign's Polls Got It Right

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Summing up the lessons learned from a massive investment in data and technology, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina has a blunt message ...

The Future Rise of the Grand Old Party

Zachary K. Pearce | Posted 01.21.2013 | Politics
Zachary K. Pearce

The liberal -- sorry, "progressive" -- elites love to talk about the fictional death of the Republican Party. But the Republican Party's future is as bright as ever.

Sabrina Siddiqui

Obama Campaign Will Keep Infrastructure Alive, Jim Messina Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The campaign is over, but the machinery that put President Barack Obama back in the White House isn't being placed in mothballs. Campaig...

Obama Triumphus: The Ten Real Reasons Why the Republicans Lost the Presidency

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 01.10.2013 | Politics
Geoffrey Dunn

The outcome of the 2012 presidential was not a fait accompli, as many are now arguing -- not by a long shot. This election could have gone either way. Anyone who thinks the Obama victory was inevitable or predetermined is in a worse state of denial than the hucksters at Fox News.

Jon Ward

Three Days In October: How The Debates Changed The Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.02.2012 | Politics

The night before the first debate in Denver, I ran into Kevin Madden, the 40-year-old, square-jawed senior aide to GOP presidential candidate Mitt...

Paul Blumenthal

Democrats Hold Huge Ground Game Advantage

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.24.2012 | Politics

ARLINGTON, Va. -- On a warm Tuesday night in late October, the Organizing for America office in south Arlington, Va., is humming with activity. In a s...

Sam Stein

Obama Campaign Touts Its 'Sporadic Voter' Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign insisted on Tuesday that on the tangible metrics of the race, President Obama is winning. Campaign manager Jim Messin...

Jon Ward

2012 Presidential Debates Viewed As Historic By Republicans, Pedestrian By Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.23.2012 | Politics

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The 2012 presidential debates are over. Were they decisive in a potentially historic way, or simply par for the course, with the s...

Race for the Whitehouse: Put Your Money on the Chicago Boys

Keith Koeneman | Posted 12.17.2012 | Chicago
Keith Koeneman

In 2012, the Chicago Boys will not let their Democratic colleagues go soft. In the homestretch of the presidential race, Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel and Messina will try to bring back their 2008 formula of success: money, message and get out the vote.

Jon Ward

Obama Campaign Manager: Even If Romney Surges, 'We're Going To Be OK'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.30.2012 | Politics

CHICAGO – "Let me show you what kind of advantage we have," said Jim Messina, springing out of a chair in his downtown office. Messina, the 42-ye...

Obama Campaign Nearing Major Milestone

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 09.30.2012 | Politics

President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is nearing 10 million donations, according to an email from campaign manager Jim Messina. "Tomorrow, w...

Sam Stein

Obama Campaign Manager To Senate Dems: President's Tide Will Lift Your Boat

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina met privately with Senate Democrats on Wednesday to discuss the campaign and how t...

Obama's Fundraising Edges Out Romney In August

Reuters | Posted 11.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $114 milli...

Romney Raises More Than $111 Million In August

Reuters | Sam Youngman | Posted 11.09.2012 | Politics

BOSTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney raised more than $111 million in August, according to a statement issued by...

FiveThirtyHate?: Nate Silver Gets His Numbers Crossed in Charlotte

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.07.2012 | Media
Geoffrey Dunn

Nate Silver's commitment to a quantitative, value-free approach to the living, breathing universe, with an emphasis on numbers, can be troubling, to the point of absurdity, when the answers have nothing to do with statistical equations.

Jon Ward

Jim Messina Tells 2012 Democratic Convention The Election Is Not About President Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- President Obama's campaign manager pressed convention goers Thursday to hand over any personal information they haven't already -- ...

Jim Messina Delivers DNC Speech

Posted 09.06.2012 | Politics

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina delivered his speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night. Below, Messina's remarks as prepar...