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2009 Election: Young Voters Who Helped Obama Stayed Home

AP | DENA POTTER | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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RICHMOND, Va. — Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Bar...

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Obama Election Reactions Around The World: A Look Back One Year Later (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 11.04.2009 | Style

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Exactly one year ago today, on the night of November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States. To say that people a...

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The Striking Obama Record

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Jacob Heilbrunn

This is no time for buyer's remorse when it comes to Obama. Compare him to JFK and his first year record starts to look pretty good. For one thing, he's avoided disaster. Bravo, Mr. President!

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Is This as Good as It Gets From Obama?

Bill Maher | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

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Bill Maher

If Obama had really charged in there riding the forceful energy of the historic election, there really could have been an historic "first hundred days." Instead of what happened, which is the Obamas got a dog.

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Rate Obama's Foreign Policy Efforts One Year Later (SURVEY)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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November 4th marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election. The international community paid particularly close attention to Obama's pr...

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The 2012 Presidential Race According to Numerologist Cheryl Lee Terry...

Tess Ghilaga | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Tess Ghilaga

Cheryl Lee predicts that in this decade, women will regain their power and take their rightful place in society.

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Farrakhan: Don't Be "Pacified" By Obama Election

AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday urged his followers not to become complacent by President Barack Obama's election and to wor...

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Haaretz: Obama's America Is Not Delivering The Goods

Haaretz | Gideon Levy | Posted 09.16.2009 | World

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With great sorrow and deep consternation, we hereby declare the death of the latest hope. Perhaps rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated, to para...

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Lying About Voting For Obama

Slate Magazine | Christopher Beam | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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Even as Americans grow skeptical of various Democratic policies, President Obama's approval rating hovers at a robust 63 percent. People like him so m...

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Sam Stein

Romney On Iran's Elections: Obama's Apology Tour Isn't Working (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

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Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said on Sunday that the Obama administration's approach to Iran was "entirely wrong-headed" and made the cas...

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Sam Stein

Schakowsky: Hold Election Even If Burris Doesn't Resign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

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Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who publicly expressed her interest in replacing Barack Obama in the Senate back when that process wasn't entirely taint...

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Letter from Chile

Carl Pope | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

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Carl Pope

Fresh assaults on the ozone layer may have been suspended, but here the impact of its wounds are severely felt. A new kind of environmentalism is needed.

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What it Means to Be American

Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.20.2009 | World

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Josh Ruxin

I'd like to go back to Rwanda or Kenya or Ethiopia on Jan. 20. I could point to the TV and say: "Look. Listen. This is what it means to be American."

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Sam Stein

Desmond Tutu: God Is Waiting To Hear 'Yes We Can'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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In a speech that was both impassioned and humorous, Archbishop Desmond Tutu heralded the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as a moment nearly myth...

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Obama's Election: "This Thing Is Ordained"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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With the inauguration of the first black president occurring the day after Martin Luther King Day, politics and race are firmly colliding in Washingto...

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The 80th Birthday of Dr. King and the Inauguration of Obama as President

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Clarence B. Jones

I never thought as Martin Luther King Jr's former advisor and speechwriter that I would live long enough to ever publicly write or say these words.

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Obama Wins -- For Black and White Americans... What's Next?

Carl Jeffers | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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Carl Jeffers

For white Americans, the election of Obama does not mean the conversation on race is over, that we are past race as an issue, and that we can now forget about affirmative action.

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Obama's White House Hires Show Respect For Congress

Congressional Quarterly | Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

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Among the small number of White House staff announcements made so far by President-elect Barack Obama , most of the top spots have gone to recent Capi...

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Sam Stein

Rove: Obama Did Only Barely Better Than Bush in '04

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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When the president you helped steer to the White House is widely considered one of history's worst, and the Republican Party you once projected would ...

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Obama's Likely Press Secretary: A Spokesman So Close, He's The "Barack Whisperer"

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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When a CBS correspondent reported last month that Barack Obama's campaign had a malodorous airplane and a dismissive attitude toward the media, Robert...

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52 Percent Of McCain Evangelical Voters Believe Obama Is Or Was Muslim

Belief Net | Steven Waldman and Dan Gilgoff | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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Religious Obama voters and religious McCain voters worship and pray at similar rates but interpret the Bible in dramatically different ways--and have ...

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Senator asks sites not to sell inaugural tickets

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The senator overseeing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony said Monday she's writing to Internet sites like eBay asking them not to...

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Georgia Congressman Warns Of Obama Dictatorship

AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force ...

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Newsweek: Why The Rich Voted For Obama

Newsweek | Daniel Gross | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

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For several years, I've been writing about Bushenfreude, the phenomenon of angry yuppies--who've hugely benefited from President Bush's tax cuts--fund...

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Palin Blames Bush Administration For Election Loss

McClatchy | Sean Cockerham | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

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Gov. Sarah Palin blames the Bush administration for the failure of the McCain-Palin ticket, thinks people need to move on from the so-called "trooperg...

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