JIM MESSINA

POLITICS
Former Aides Confirm That Obama Was Irritated With Mitt Romney's Concession Call
By Sam Levine
Two former top White House aides came to the defense of David Axelrod, a former advisor to President Barack Obama, on Thursday
POLITICS
Dear Dems: We'll Give More If You'll Ask Less
By Michael Sigman, Contributor
Writer/editor/music publisher
My exhaling having been thwarted, I resolved to focus on my in-breath by meditating. No sooner did I hit the cushion than
POLITICS
Jim Messina: The Democrats' Would-be Karl Rove
Jim Messina, the former campaign manager to President Barack Obama who spent two decades in politics out of the public eye
POLITICS
Top Liberal Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, Begins Raising Funds For Possible Clinton Bid
By Samantha Lachman
Earlier this month, the group announced an executive leadership team that includes a number of former Obama and Clinton campaign
MEDIA
Obama Campaign Pushed Bombshell Scoop To The New York Times, Book Reveals
By Michael Calderone and Luke Johnson
The Obama team rightly assumed the news would spark outrage. The group had proposed hiring an “extremely literate conservative
ENTERTAINMENT
Chats With Jimmy Webb, Nora Guthrie and Little River Band's Wayne Nelson, Plus Tracy Newman and The Slants Exclusives, and Colin Gilmore's Best
By Mike Ragogna, Contributor
Trafficbeat Entertainment, Music Biz Vet
Let's talk about Jimmy Webb's new album, Still Within The Sound Of My Voice.
POLITICS
Matt Damon Is Right
By Brent Budowsky, Contributor
Columnist
When the great actor Matt Damon recently said that President Obama "broke up with me," he hit the jackpot of telling political truth in the eyes of many progressive Democrats and independents.
POLITICS
Does Obama's Early Education Proposal Have a Chance?
By David Kirp, Contributor
Author, 'Kids First' and 'Improbable Scholars'; UC Berkeley pu...
If early education is done well -- and the Obama plan builds in safeguards designed to assure quality -- there's abundant evidence that it's the smartest investment we can make in children's futures.
POLITICS
Stephanie Cutter Starts Consulting Firm With 2 Former Obama Aides
By Jon Ward
Cutter, 44, is a veteran Democrat communicator who has worked for former President Bill Clinton, former Sen. Edward Kennedy
POLITICS
Where Obama Staff Veterans Are Working In 2013 | New Republic
One of the stars of Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address was Jackie Bray, a single mother who was laid off in 2011
VIDEOS
Obama Slams Opponents Of Universal Background Checks
Jim Messina, who is leading the effort by Organizing For Action to press for tougher gun laws, has a problem: his old boss. OFA, the offshoot of the Obama campaign now organized as a nonprofit organization, has made gun control its top priority, and Messina has been the public face of that effort. The president on Thursday pressed supporters to keep the pressure on by swarming congressional town halls during Congress' recess to drive the message home.
POLITICS
Max Baucus, Jim Messina Split On Gun Control
By Sabrina Siddiqui and Ryan Grim
That might be for the best, tactically, said another former top Senate aide who worked closely with Baucus and Messina. "Jim
VIDEOS
Messina: Will Be A 'Political Price" For Not Supporting Background Checks
Jim Messina: Will be 'Political Price" For Not Supporting Background Checks
POLITICS
Jim Messina: Obama Campaign Had Its 'White-Knuckle Moments' (VIDEO)
By Chris Gentilviso
“I think [it was] after the August debt-limit crisis, and August 2011 where our numbers were, you know, historically low
ENVIRONMENT
We Must Act
By Peter Lehner, Contributor
Senior Strategic Advisor and Senior Attorney at Earthjustice, ...
The president recognizes that the power to make change doesn't reside only in Washington; it sits within all of us. We can raise our voices, influence our friends, get our lawmakers' attention, and create our own groundswell.
POLITICS
Can O.F.A. and Obama's "Inside-Outside" Strategy Move Congress?
By Pearl Korn, Contributor
Advocate for Expanded and Improved Medicare For All
Can P.D.A., the C.P.C. and O.F.A. work together to build a larger coalition? Will Jim Messina reach out to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party? Hey, the president offered a progressive agenda, Jim. Why not?
VIDEOS
Obama Campaign Relaunching As Nonprofit
President Barack Obama may have run the last campaign of his career, but his political organization is not going away. In an unprecedented step for the campaign of a sitting president, Obama for America is relaunching itself ahead of the president's second inauguration as a social welfare nonprofit group called Organizing for Action.
POLITICS
Organizing For Action: Obama Campaign Relaunches As Issue-Based Nonprofit
By Paul Blumenthal
First reported Thursday night by the Los Angeles Times and Politico, the new group will use the Obama campaign's extensive
POLITICS
Obama Deploys Campaign List to Hammer GOP on Taxes and Discharge
By Ari Melber, Contributor
MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Attorney
The Obama campaign is pitching a new online calling tool, which enables people to call their Republican representatives or, if you live in a blue area, to call fellow Obama supporters in redder pastures and urge them to get on the phone. That's pretty sophisticated activism.
POLITICS
Obama Campaign Polls: How The Internal Data Got It Right
By Mark Blumenthal
The call centers that completed these analytics surveys typically specialize in "voter identification," the process of contacting
POLITICS
The Future Rise of the Grand Old Party
By Zachary K. Pearce, Contributor
Christian, Elder, Business Owner, Adjunct Professor
The liberal -- sorry, "progressive" -- elites love to talk about the fictional death of the Republican Party. But the Republican Party's future is as bright as ever.
POLITICS
Jim Messina: Obama Campaign Will Keep Infrastructure Alive
By Sabrina Siddiqui
“All of those things, I hope every campaign uses and I hope becomes important,” Messina said. But OFA will not be selling
POLITICS
Obama Triumphus: The Ten Real Reasons Why the Republicans Lost the Presidency
By Geoffrey, Contributor
Geoffrey Dunn is an award-winning writer and filmmaker.
The outcome of the 2012 presidential was not a fait accompli, as many are now arguing -- not by a long shot. This election could have gone either way. Anyone who thinks the Obama victory was inevitable or predetermined is in a worse state of denial than the hucksters at Fox News.
POLITICS
Three Days In October: How The Debates Changed The Race
By Jon Ward
Much of the talk in the spin room was less about the debate and more about the state of the race. “What do you think?” reporters
POLITICS
Obama Ground Game: State Parties Flush With Cash In Swing States
By Paul Blumenthal
The only state where the disparity is small is Florida, where Democrats had raised $15 million through September, and Republicans
POLITICS
Obama Campaign Touts Its 'Sporadic Voter' Turnout
By Sam Stein
"Sporadic voters matter here," Messina said later in the call. "And it can't just be about getting your traditional Democrat
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