Call to Action: Who Will Speak for Obama?
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?
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?
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
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.
Erin Medlicott | Posted 06.01.2008 | Home
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.
Shira Levine | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
Forget the superdelegates, says actor John Leguizamo. There's a quicker and less painful solution to choosing the Democratic nominee: Mixed Martial Arts.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home
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.
Jay Rosen | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
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.
Tom Namako | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home
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.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home
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.
Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
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.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home
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.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home
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.
Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home
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?
Erin Medlicott | Posted 03.24.2008 | Home
In a recent Zogby Research poll Republican presidential candidate John McCain beat both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the candidate respondent...
Erin Medlicott | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home
Hollywood loves a good Democratic presidential race. And just in time for some "light reading," the 1st Quarter 2008 Federal Elections Commission Dis...
NY Times | JEFF ZELENY | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
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...
Heidi Pickman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Home
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.
Bloomberg | Julianna Goldman | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics
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...
Washington Post | John Solomon | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign helped recommend several of the donations his political action committee made in recent months to...
Michael Roston | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics
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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Michelle Kraus | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics