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Howard Fineman

Obama Teeters At A Beltway Tipping Point

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- If things work out the way President Barack Obama and his aides hope, a majority of Americans will continue to stick with him through hi...

Sam Stein

Obama, House Dems At A Loss Over How To Move Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Over a two-and-a-half hour dinner at the Jefferson Hotel in downtown Washington Wednesday night, President Barack Obama and nine House D...

Obama Going To Bat For Congressional Dems

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics

* President hopes Democrats can defy odds in mid-terms * Party in power usually loses seats in middle of presidential term ...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Obama Calms House Democratic Concerns Over Entitlement Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama assured House Democrats Thursday he won't slash Social Security and Medicare, moments after he reaffirmed his com...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Senate Progressives Warn Obama Against Giving Away The Store

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 03.13.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama took a break during his offensive to charm Republican lawmakers open to a budget deal on Tuesday to assure his fe...

Some Democrats Seek Distance From Obama

Politico | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama says he’s ready to do whatever it takes to help Democrats win the House next year — a feat that could make the difference b...

Dems Ready To Fight Obama 'Tooth And Nail' On Major Cuts

Reuters | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama must work with a deeply skeptical partner as he tries to undo ...

Obama Critics Come Around, Say He's A 'New Man'

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics

By Thomas Ferraro LEESBURG, Va. Feb 7 (Reuters) - Democrats in Congress have always had some gripes with their preside...

Sam Stein

Obama's Progressive Base Embraces Him Anew, Bound For More Heartbreak

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's definitive reelection victory has invited Democrats to imagine a new era of liberalism, in which they are no lo...

Sam Stein

Obama Panic: President's Supporters Discuss How They Cope Emotionally

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.20.2012 | Politics

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The mood among supporters of President Barack Obama shortly before he took the stage at a Friday morning rally in Fairfax, Va., was pl...

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...

Once-Skeptical Dems Rally Around Obama 2012

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 02.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — After a dreary summer marred by the fight over government borrowing, rank-and-file Democrats say they are growing more optimistic a...

Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

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

Does Obama Have A Democratic Lawmaker Problem?

Politico | MANU RAJU & MARIN COGAN | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics

Sen. Joe Lieberman was treated like an outcast back in 2008 when he broke from the Senate Democratic Caucus and openly opposed Barack Obama's bid for ...

Michael McAuliff

DSCC: President Obama Won't Impact 2012 Senate Races

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will matter little to next year's Democratic Senate races, even though Republicans will try to link the poll-chal...

Obama, Occupy Wall Street and 2012

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.25.2011 | Politics
Lincoln Mitchell

The Occupy Wall Street movement is not talking about running somebody against President Obama in the Democratic Party, but this would be about the best thing that could happen to the Obama campaign.

There Is No Political Middle Ground

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics
Bob Burnett

In contemporary America there is no room for bipartisanship. We are solidly divided between Democrats and Republican who exist in their own, quite different, realities.

Sam Stein

Obama Faring Better Among Dem Voters Than Every Democratic President Since Truman: Gallup

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.26.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The debt ceiling debate has provided yet another opportunity for Democratic base voters to lament the political choices of the president...

Amanda Terkel

Anthony Weiner: Obama Is 'Not A Values Guy'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and a handful of other House Democrats expressed deep frustration with President Barack Obama's leadership ...

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING: Obama Coming Back To Chicago For Dem Rally

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will make a final push for Democrats the weekend before Election Day with campaign stops in four cities. Ob...

My Declaration of Independents

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Marty Kaplan

I used to imagine the president was playing 11-dimensional political chess with Republicans, a strategy I was too dim to grasp. I've begun to wonder whether his negotiating is his way of dog-whistling to Independents that he's their guy.

Sam Stein

Obama Tells Dems He'll Oppose Tax Cut Compromise Withtout Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — At a meeting at the White House with Democratic congressional leadership Saturday afternoon, President Obama said he would oppose a...

Democrats' Loss May Be Obama's Re-Election Gain

Robert K. Lifton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert K. Lifton

The natural tendency will be to think of how this large-scale loss by his party weakens President Obama's chances in the next presidential election.

Democrats Aiming To Fire Up Voters, Close Enthusiasm Gap With Republicans Ahead Of November

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Democrats desperately need other Democrats – to vote. With midterm elections in just six weeks – and Republicans fired...

Sam Stein

Obama, Dems Try To Make Shadowy Conservative Groups A Problem For Conservatives

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

When President Obama used his radio address this past weekend to spotlight the issue of campaign finance reform and the role that outside groups are h...