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By John Rentoul Terrific article in The Atlantic on the extraordinary fund-raising success of the Barack Obama campaign. Funny stuff, money, especially in America, Brobdingnag of revolutionary capitalism, where the giants of each wave eat their parents: IBM, Microsoft, Google....
Barack Obama has campaigned on changing the old Washington way of doing politics. Headlines on Wednesday suggested that Obama had a "white problem," or more specifically a blue-collar, white-voter problem. Not content to lose even one news cycle, the Obama team played a new card: the...
Barack Obama's lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton among Democrats and other voters who "lean" Democratic has narrowed from 6 percentage points yesterday to 4 percentage points today, Gallup just reported. He's ahead of her 48%-44% in Gallup's national tracking poll....
Stark endorsed Obama Friday. (CNN) — California Rep. Pete Stark became the latest superdelegate to endorse Barack Obama Friday. Stark, who has represented California's 13th District for 35 years, said Obama has "captured the imagination of Americans in a way we’ve not seen for decades." “He’s...
The 41-point whooping Hillary Clinton gave Barack Obama in West Virginia has clearly done little for her, particularly after Obama stole her show the next night with the John Edwards endorsement. But boy, is John McCain happy. The win upon wins — often with a staggering 70 percent or more in...
The loss of long-held House seats by Republicans who relied on anti-Barack Obama attack ads in their campaigns is giving credence to Obama's claim that such ads won't work in the fall presidential race and sending waves of panic through Republican circles.
Washington Post columnist Libby Copeland exmaines the "Poor Hillary" meme by those who don't care for Hillary Clinton. It's only worth reading for the end: You see the real Clinton on TV this week after her West Virginia win. Brian Williams tries to lead her into an autopsy of her campaign, and...
Tim Russert is NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and host of Meet the Press. Msnbc: Tim, the White House denies it, but the Barack Obama campaign is accusing President Bush of targeting the Democratic frontrunner with comments Thursday in Israel, where he warned about negotiating with terrorists....
With her deep party ties, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was supposed to own the superdelegate primary. But in the last two months, it’s been the rookie, Democratic rival Barack Obama, who has maximized his superdelegate moments. When new images of Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s “God...
Obama “told reporters this week that he can overcome the falsehoods if he has enough time to campaign in battleground states and let voters get to know him better. Meanwhile, Obama practically dared Republican congressional candidates to keep linking their Democratic opponents to him. ‘The same...
Obama warns Republicans about critical ads Perhaps no one took greater comfort in the Republican Party's third straight loss of a long-held House seat this week than Barack Obama, who says the results point to clear limits in the effectiveness of attack ads he expects this fall. In recent...
Barack Obama, John McCain, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Gary Hart, Google, IBM, Microsoft
