Swing Voters

Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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To counter the conventional wisdom pundits, the cautious campaign advisers, and his own inner cautiousness, I'm offering Obama suggestions for staying true to the vision that took him from longshot to presidential frontrunner.

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Tapping Barack Obama's Phone

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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When Obama eschewed the pundit's red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his '04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls.

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Broke and Burned Out: Moms of '08 Election?

Nanette Fondas | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Soccer moms, security moms ... How will the mothers' vote be labeled this year? Broke and burned out moms?

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The Evangelical Swing Vote

Christine Wicker | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics

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The swing-vote evangelicals are three to five times as numerous as evangelicals who toe the Religious Right political line. Who says? The evangelicals themselves.

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It's the Story, Stupid...

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Crossover Voting, Swing Voters, Barack Obama, Audacity of Hope, Politics News

If Obama wants to win blue-collar voters who sit squarely in Hillary's camp and who may happily defect to McCain come fall, he needs to give his books away.

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A Day With Hillary: Middle-Aged Undecided White Men

The Uptake | Posted 04.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Pennsylvania Primary, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Swing Voters, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Male Voters, Senator Obama, Clinton Men, Senator Hillary Clingon, Obama, Home News

On the ground in Pennsylvania, you can sense much tenuous support and find many waffling voters. The most enigmatic include those in the bullseye of the campaigns: white male undecideds.

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White Men Seen All Wrong

David Paul Kuhn | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama and White Men, The Neglected Voter, Obama White Men, Paul Krugman, 2008 Election, White Men, Swing Voters, Chris Matthews, Gloria Borger, Politics News

In the Democratic primary, white men have been the most willing to shift between the two candidates.

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After NH, Winning the West: DOs and DON'Ts

Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

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The race for president is officially wide open on both sides, meaning that our California primary votes may actually make a difference.

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Was Ross Perot Right?

David Sirota | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics

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Those who ignore the history are doomed to repeat it -- and America's middle class can't afford to be trampled yet again.

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