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Obama "The Country I Love"

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:22:51 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Over One Million Supporters on Facebook

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:35:10 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

Today we crossed an important threshold: one million supporters for Barack Obama on Facebook. The Obama page has by far more supporters than any other page – whether it’s a politician, celebrity, or band – on all of Facebook.

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How did he do it?

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:17:53 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

... Obama's Chicago headquarters made technology its running mate from the start. That wasn't just for fund-raising: in state after state, the campaign turned over its voter lists — normally a closely guarded crown jewel — to volunteers, who used their own laptops and the unlimited night and weekend minutes of their cell-phone plans to contact every name and populate a political organization from the ground up.

... "What I didn't anticipate was how effectively we could use the Internet to harness that grass-roots base, both on the financial side and the organizing side," Obama says. "That, I think, was probably one of the biggest surprises of the campaign, just how powerfully our message merged with the social networking and the power of the Internet."

Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:00:43 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray
clipper's remarks: Obama's campaign mastered some of the most arcane rules in politics, and then used them to foil a front-runner who seemed to have every advantage - money, fame and a husband who had essentially run the Democratic Party for eight years as president.

Clip Source: apnews.myway.com

Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama's staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually lose.

"Without a doubt, their understanding of the nominating process was one of the keys to their success," said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist not aligned with either candidate. "They understood the nuances of it and approached it at a strategic level that the Clinton campaign did not."

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Students suspended for skipping class to meet Obama

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:18:33 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: hosted.ap.org

Two high school seniors in Scranton, Pa., are paying a high price for their interest in politics.

Colin Saltry and Joey Daniel say they skipped gym class on Monday to rush over to a diner where Sen. Barack Obama's motorcade had just pulled in for an impromptu breakfast stop.

The two met Obama, and they say he even signed excuse slips for them to show their teachers. That didn't work. Saltry and Daniel got one-day suspensions for leaving school grounds, and Saltry has been ordered to resign as senior class president.

Saltry says it was worth being suspended to meet Obama, but he didn't expect to be bounced from his class presidency.

Assistant Superintendent William King says the rules are clear, and adds that if the students had approached a teacher about wanting to leave campus, they probably would have been given permission.

It's Crunch Time for Clinton and Obama

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:01 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: www.philly.com

Obama gave a soaring speech on race as he tried to explain his former pastor's inflammatory sermons, and later defended his own comment about "bitter" small-town Pennsylvanians.

Clinton had to explain her false claims that she dodged sniper fire on a 1996 visit to Bosnia. And the two of them argued over minor differences on free-trade treaties and job losses, health care and energy policy.

The consensus among political leaders and analysts: Clinton will win, but perhaps not by enough.

Obama holds a wide lead in Philadelphia and a narrower one in its suburban counties, while Western Pennsylvania favors Clinton by as much as 2-1.

Clinton has the advantage among women, older voters, Catholics, union households, and white voters with high school educations making less than $35,000

15 percent of voters who tell pollsters they remain undecided

roughly 325,000 newly registered Democrats in the state

a mixture of first-time voters and those switching affiliation to participate in the closed primary

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Maybe Obama is on to something....obama

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:23:20 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

from Andrew Gelman:

Church attendance and income by state:

Notice the cluster of poor Southern states at the upper left, which accounts for most though not all of the relationship.

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Davis apologizes for calling Obama 'boy'

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:04:11 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: polwatchers.typepad.com

U.S. Rep Geoff Davis apologized Monday for calling presidential contender and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama “boy” during a Northern Kentucky dinner over the weekend.

He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.

“I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button," Davis said. "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

Davis compared Obama, a Democratic contender for president, and his message to a “snake oil salesman.”

The offending comment was first reported on the Herald-Leader’s political blog, Pol Watchers. (Click here to listen to Davis' remarks.)

“My poor choice of words is regrettable and was in no way meant to impugn you or your integrity," Davis wrote in a letter that staffers said was hand-delivered to Obama’s U.S. Senate office. "I offer my sincere apology to you and ask for your forgiveness.”

Obama: $1 Million in a Minute

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:05:08 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: www.businessweek.com

The latest salvo in the Presidential hopeful's Web campaign is a site designed to process a million dollars in 60 seconds

AnObamaMinute.com calls for pledgers (who can pre-register) to register a donation within 60 seconds, at 1pm on Apr. 21.

Analysts say the site further underscores the engagement and enthusiasm that has buoyed Obama's campaign. "Obama is already the greatest fund-raising success in American history," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "This is another wrinkle, another innovation that confirms the Internet's potential."

Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:16:16 GMT

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Clip Source: rasmussenreports.com

Pennsylvania: Clinton 47% Obama 42%

Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.

Support for Clinton slipped from 52% early in March, to 51% in mid-month, 49% a week ago, and 47% today. During that same time frame, support for Obama has increased from 37% to 42%.

A separate survey found that both Democrats are in a competitive race with John McCain for Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes. Nationally, McCain currently leads both Democrats in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Looking at the Electoral College, the race is essentially a Toss-Up.

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Girl in Clinton Ad Supports Obama

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:02:21 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: www.npr.org

In a now-famous Hillary Clinton campaign ad, a young girl sleeps while a phone rings in the dead of the night at the White House. The message: Clinton will keep her safe. But the ad used stock footage of a child — and she's now turning 18 and voting for Barack Obama.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Parodies of Clinton Ad Blossom on YouTube

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There were numerous other parodies that involve suggestions about the activities of former President Bill Clinton at 3 a.m., but this is a family blog.

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Influential Democrats Waiting to Choose Sides

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:30:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's trio of victories over Sen. Barack Obama last week appears to have convinced a sizable number of uncommitted Democratic superdelegates to wait until the end of the primaries and caucuses before picking a candidate, according to a survey by The Washington Post.

Many of the 80 uncommitted superdelegates who were contacted over the past several days said they are reluctant to override the clear will of voters

At the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August, there will be 796 superdelegates

"You're going to see a lot of delegates remaining uncommitted," said Rep. Mike Doyle (Pa.), who has not endorsed either candidate. "There's a sense that this is going to Denver not resolved."

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

So far Clinton, with 242 superdelegates, has had more success soliciting their support than Obama, who has the backing of 210.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

"If superdelegates were just intended to automatically vote for the preference someone else expressed, there wouldn't be any purpose,"

Tags: clinton, obama, superdelegates

Pennsylvania’s Missed Opportunity

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:12:54 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray

Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

With Sen. Barack Obama narrowly leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in delegates after the Ohio and Texas votes (margins vary this morning, as they usually do, from 86 to 132), Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary looms as the biggest race remaining, with 158 delegates at stake.

It could have been even bigger.

Any state whose primary was held before April in 2004, and opted to hold this year’s primary in April, would gain a 15% bonus on their base delegate total. (It’s spelled out on the first two pages of the party’s call to the convention.) Move your primary from before May 1 to afterwards, and pick up a 30% bonus.

Pennsylvania was best-positioned to pick up a big bonus at little cost.

Instead it settled for April 22, and a 5% bonus.

That cost Pennsylvania 33 extra delegates to the convention

Abe Amoros, executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic party, told me it was up to the legislature to set the primary date. “I have never heard the argument of moving it to May,

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Clinton Is Beating Obama on Health Care

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:04:21 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are locked in a long fight over the wonky details of their health care plans. Clinton’s winning.

In Texas, where the overall race was close, she beat Obama 58% to 39% among voters who said health care was their top priority, the WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib notes in this morning’s Capital Journal column. She also won health-care voters by a significant margin in Ohio, and in the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.

Health care is the No. 1 issue for somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of Democratic primary voters this year. The voting bloc is largely working class.

Clinton has argued that her plan, which requires everyone to buy insurance, would do more than Obama’s plan (which doesn’t include a mandate) to move toward universal coverage. But her edge among voters may come more from the fact that she pushed an ambitious plan for health reform plan during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Clinton gets credit among working-class voters for having waged the fight.

Tags: clinton, obama, health care, insurance, politics

"We are the ones we have been waiting for"

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:10:15 GMT

clipped by: BobbyDelray
clipper's remarks: Notice Barack's demeanor at the end of the speech.

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Here's the speech Barack delivered tonight in the great city of Chicago...

Tags: obama, clinton, super tuesday speech, "we are the ones we have been waiting for"