The right treats Maine as ground zero in their effort to halt the march towards marriage equality, so defeating Question 1 on Nov. 3rd can have a national impact in the fight for same-sex marriage.
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.
Dave Belden | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Obama appealed to his volunteers to join a new organization, Organizing for America. Can an elected politician start a mass grassroots movement? Can it work to promote major change?
Daniel Kohn | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
This is a call to you, Generation Obama. We must show the equal enthusiasm to our communities as we did in getting out the vote.
Tracy Hepler | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
As twentysomethings, we have the power to influence the future of our environment. With our practices, our wallets and the Internet, we have the ability to significantly steer the course of the Green movement.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 12.15.2008 | Chicago
I'm grateful to Obama supporters who didn't trumpet their insiderness and perks to everyone within earshot. Gratitude is one thing. Tolerating one-upsmanship another.
James Sanders | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
Campaigners for both political parties are not lagging around with their vote, and they are making sure that you don't either with tables and chairs l...
Adrienne Birecree | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
My husband and I got up at 5am this morning so we would be at our polling place before it opened at 6am. We definitely knew where we were going. If w...
Hilary Lambert | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
"Ohio is the tip of the spear!" That's the kickoff phrase of the Obama campaign's Red, White and Blue Teams Volunteer packets, containing instructions for the hundreds of Obama campaign workers who are hunkering down across Ohio.
Huffington Post/YouTube | Anya Strzemien | Posted 12.04.2008 | Style
Charles Alexander is an 86-year-old Obama campaign volunteer from Boulder, Colorado. He won a raffle to meet Barack at the rally in Denver on October ...
Chidimma Ozor | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
Paul Speirs is president of Steinbeck Communications, a Las Vegas-based public relations firm, whose clients include top companies in the gaming indus...
Hilary Lambert | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home
This morning I saw Barack Obama speak on the steps of the Ohio statehouse. I finally understood something. I felt things I don't think I've ever felt.
Mary Ann West | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
In the quintessential town of Keene, New Hampshire, volunteers waved as cars honked in support while standing on the picturesque Village Common, hoist...
Susie Hoeller | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
My friends, a couple and their two young girls, and I drove from Arkansas, two hours north to Springfield, Missouri for the Obama rally held Saturday ...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home
By Marlene H. Phillips and Dawn Teo For the first time in this presidential election, Barack Obama has aired not one but two prime time ads in my sta...
Claudia Cruz | Posted 12.02.2008 | Home
An off-week for the Ohio State football team possibly swelled the number of Franklin County Ohio voters that stood outside of Veterans Memorial to vot...
Sue Bell | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
It is said by an African proverb, "it takes a village to raise a child." My village grew up with the Kennedy and Cuomo family tradition of dinner tab...
Andrew Sprung | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
In July 2008, Roz Blau, was looking for the next major connection in her life. Recently retired after a 27-year career as a social worker, she had mov...
Jennifer Treuting | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Frank Schlupp is a volunteer with the Obama campaign in Ward 58 of Northeast Philadelphia, an area that went heavily for Hillary Clinton in the primar...
Stefanie Fontanez | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
It was shortly after watching Barack Obama speak for the first time that Megan Meagher turned to a friend and said "I have to do something. I've never...
Wes Isley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Q&A with Wade Boyles For someone who had never volunteered for a political campaign until this year, Wade Boyles, 36, of Winston-Salem, N.C., hasn't ...
Monica Klein | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
The local middle school in Kathy Rednaur's old town used to call Child Abuse Services on her every few months. Eventually, she picked up and moved her...
Tiffany C. Kern | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Interview with Mike Burtch Biography: Mike Burtch is a retired school teacher from Turlock, CA. After a life of working the campaign trails for city...
Tiffany C. Kern | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Interview with Patty Hughes Biography: Patty Hughes is a single mother of two sons, ages 16 and 19 and has been a party of community organization, an...
Sheryl Z. White | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
As a young child walking to school he would recite a rhyme that he learned from his grandmother - "Truman's in the White House eating bread and jelly....
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics