Senator Barack Obama

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Call to Action: Who Will Speak for Obama?

Michelle Kraus | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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Who will provide the flashlight, the superglue, the call to action, the call to unify for the Party? Will it be Howard Dean or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid?

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Two Firsts

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

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Many moving things have been said about how so many girls now believe that they can be anything they want because of Hillary -- but there's also an impact on boys, like my own two sons.

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Telegraph: Obama To Pay Campaign Debt, Offer Cabinet Posts

Erin Medlicott | Posted 06.01.2008 | Home

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The U.K. Telegraph reports that Obama staffers are in discussions on when to pay off Clinton's campaign debt and are serious about offering her a place in the administration, perhaps as health secretary.

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Throw Obama and Clinton Into the Cage for Some Mixed Martial Arts, and Never Mind About Old What's-His-Name, McCain!

Shira Levine | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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Forget the superdelegates, says actor John Leguizamo. There's a quicker and less painful solution to choosing the Democratic nominee: Mixed Martial Arts.

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Help for Political Junkies

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home

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The long primary is not all bad. There is record voter turnout; tremendous numbers of new voters; large numbers of independents voting Democratic. These are all major pluses. Take a breath, people.

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They Were Undercover Campaign Volunteers

Jay Rosen | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home

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Two Philadelphia City Paper writers chose to go undercover to find out how the volunteer operations for Obama and Clinton actually worked. Ethical? Maybe. Revealing? Absolutely.

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I Was A Clinton Volunteer

Tom Namako | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

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It's simple, grassroots, startup ideas that have poked holes in the Clinton 1990s-style carefully crafted mass-media-ready messages. Internet news. Facebook. Hordes of young community volunteers.

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Making Lemonade From Lemons After Debate

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

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Obama's politics of change is just a more subtle version of the same. He said the debate was all about "gotcha games" and "slash-and-burn politics." Then he said Clinton "looked in her element" on stage there.

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A Potential Vice-Presidential Candidate Struggles with Legislative Dealmaking

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Senator Evan Bayh is on the short-list of vice-presidential candidates for both Obama and Clinton -- so his effectiveness as the potential president of the Senate is a matter of some importance.

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Why Younger Women Aren't Supporting Hillary

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home

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Many people have become sensitized -- even hypersensitized -- to issues of racism in this campaign, and words and attitudes are being examined and questioned. But sexism seems to go largely unnoticed or, if it is noticed, is dismissed as irrelevant.

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Obama Risks Alienating Clinton Women and Blue-Collar Supporters

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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This doesn't go down very well with a lot of voters, especially with the working class and underpaid professional women who make up many of Senator Clinton's supporters -- women who may have been passed over for jobs in the past and who work for 80 cents of a man's dollar.

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How Low Can They Go?

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home

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A student at Butler University asked Chelsea Clinton this week if her father's affair with Monica Lewinsky had lessened her mother's 'credibility.' Where is the new kind of politics we were promised in this campaign?

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Poll Says Ralph Nader Draws Support From Democratic Voters

Erin Medlicott | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home

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In a recent Zogby Research poll Republican presidential candidate John McCain beat both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the candidate respondent...

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Hollywood Celebs Hedge Their Bets With Candidate Donations

Erin Medlicott | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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Hollywood loves a good Democratic presidential race. And just in time for some "light reading," the 1st Quarter 2008 Federal Elections Commission Dis...

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Obama's Safety Concerns Supporters

NY Times | JEFF ZELENY | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

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There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he...

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Obama's Image Problem In The Jewish Community

Heidi Pickman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home

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Obama is having a problem courting a segment of the Jewish population. Some Jewish voters worry that his time spent in a predominantly Muslim country as a youth means that he is not a friend of Israel.

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Obama, Clinton Speak At Black Churches

Bloomberg | Julianna Goldman | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama spoke Sunday at the church once pastored by Martin Luther King Jr., matching the soaring chords of the choir with an inspirational speech...

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Obama Campaign Changes Its Story Over Controversial Donations

Washington Post | John Solomon | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign helped recommend several of the donations his political action committee made in recent months to...

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Is Something On Your Mind, Senator Obama?

Michael Roston | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics

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This may be the first time in the history of political communications that a candidate's subconscious jonesing for a smoke has worked its way into his campaign literature.

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