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Obama Campaign Pushes Scott Walker Recall In Wisconsin

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is jumping into the Wisconsin recall, focusing on educating and registering voters in adva...

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Obama Final Four Picks Hint At 2012 Election

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.14.2012

President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled his picks to reach the Final Four in the NCAA basketball tournament. As the Los Angeles Times reports, the ...

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Obama's Iowa Promises, 4 Years Later

Posted 01.03.2012

Four years after sitting in front of a camera and encouraging Iowa Democrats to caucus for him, President Barack Obama's campaign is sending out a 200...

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Obama Campaign Gears Up Its Iowa Strategy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.30.2011

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Tuesday night's Iowa caucus will go a long way toward separating the well-managed Republican campaigns from the vanity projects and amateur operations...

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Rufus Gifford: The Man Behind Obama's Historic Fundraising Machine

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Imagine that your boss is disliked by about half the people who know him, doesn't get along particularly well with the business communit...

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Obama Taps Campaign Star To Rally Crucial Black And Minority Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.01.2012

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CHICAGO -- When Michael Blake became an organizer with then-Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election campaign, he was just 25 and was already...

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Obama Staffer Bashes 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president's position on the debt deal...

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Tell Us About Fundraising Calls From Obama, Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 10.09.2011

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WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, he has to sell a controversial deal he endorsed to end the impasse over the debt c...

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Can The DNC and Our President Break Their Establishment Ties?

Pearl Korn | Posted 07.23.2011

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For the DNC to become relevant again, it needs to truly embrace that spirit of "change" from 2008 and support some real Progressives for Congress in 2012.

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Obama Working To Rebuild Grassroots Army

AP | By KEN THOMAS | Posted 07.16.2011

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PHILADELPHIA -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is barely a month old, but Camille Gervasio and other volunteers nationwide already are ...

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Barack Obama Close Up (SLIDESHOW)

Spencer Critchley | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the 2008 presidential campaign, I worked on Obama's press team. Just recently, I finished sorting through thousands of photos. I was struck by the powerful sense of Obama's character revealed through the lens.

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Will Democrats Lose Big in November? Only if They Choose to

Zach Friend | Posted 05.25.2011

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The talking heads have declared it so. But you know, political pundits and have a lot in common with stock analysts: they're pretty good at explaining the future -- right after it happens.

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Shadow Elite: Has the Obama Organizing Machine Staged A Party Takeover?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The shadow elite in America are adept at creating novel alternative structures and new venues of power that suit their agenda, and Organizing for America seems to be a case in point.

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Obama's Secret Weapon: OFA

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the political punditry prognosticates of Democratic political disaster this fall, it is well to remember that Democrats have a weapon, the importance of which Washington types don't fully understand.

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TRANSCRIPT: Q&A with Al Gore

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

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This is an excerpt of a wide-ranging, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the Web in his crusade on climate change, among others topics.

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All That Campaigning? It Mattered

Seth Masket | Posted 05.25.2011

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Political scientists have a difficult time showing campaigns actually affect votes. In a new paper, I found that had it not been for Obama's field offices, McCain would have won Florida, Indiana and North Carolina.

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20 Powerful Health Care Reform Ads Made By Regular People (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Organizing for America has picked 20 finalists for its Health Care Reform Video Challenge. The winner will air on national television. See all the ads...

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Next Door To McCain Town Hall, Obama's Field Team Kicks Off National Tour

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was 2008 all over again Wednesday night as Organizing for America (OFA), formerly Obama for America, launched their cross-country "Reform Health Care Now: Let's Get It Done Tour" from Arizona...

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Obama's Organizing For America Forum: WATCH LIVE VIDEO

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Organizing For America, the campaign arm of the White House, is hosting a live forum with President Obama this afternoon. According to an email to sup...

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Ad Research: From Obama Political Ads to Cheese-Flavored Snacks

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why have not political advertising execs focused on this new neuromarketing tool for measurement and for creative planning?

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Plouffe Heads The DNC -- That's Best Way Forward

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Plouffe would be a guarantee of smarts, a no-drama hand on the tiller, a likely tranformer of the Obama Movememt into a Democratic Party on steroids.

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