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Barack Obama supporters stories: 71 news summaries

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Arianna Huffington

 Hey, Barack: Yes, You Still Can 

Plouffe book recalls a historic campaign that got lost in transition

Nov 3, 09 10:24 AM CST
(Newser) - 'Yes, we can" was the rallying cry of a game-changing campaign that swept Obama to victory on the shoulders of a grass-roots tidal wave one year ago—and President Obama would do well to remember Candidate Obama, writes Arianna Huffington in a lengthy look at David Plouffe's new campaign memoir.... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • memoir • David Plouffe • Arianna Huffington • Barack Obama supporters • President Obama • Obama campaign • The Audacity to Win

(Newser) - Now that he’s in office, President Obama is having a lot of trouble mobilizing the grassroots network that helped put him there, the Los Angeles Times reports. With Republican health care opponents operating like a well-oiled, talk-show-fueled machine, Organizing for America (aka Obama for America) is stuttering—in... More »

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health care • grassroots • health care reform • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • activists • Obama administration • President Obama • Organizing for America

ANALYSIS

Obama Army's New Mission: Pass the Budget

Prez calls on legion of campaign supporters, but will they follow?

Mar 18, 09 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four months after propelling Barack Obama to victory, his millions-strong army of volunteers is being asked to help out again, writes Jeff Zeleny in the New York Times. Anyone who contributed $5 or more to the campaign has been enlisted to support Obama's effort to pass his 2010 budget, which... More »

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Barack Obama • budget • David Plouffe • Barack Obama supporters • campaign volunteers

ANALYSIS

Obama Seeks Common Ground on Abortion

President focuses on reducing unwanted pregnancies

Feb 5, 09 3:10 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama is hoping a nuanced approach can soften the debate over one of the most contentious issues in America: abortion, writes Rob Stein in the Washington Post. Since taking office, Obama has lifted a Republican ban on funding international aid groups that provide abortion services, but also persuaded House... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • Barack Obama supporters • pro-life • pro-choice activists • Obama administration • President Obama

glossies

 The Plouffe Plan 
 That Terrifies 
 Washington 

Senior adviser plans to turn Obama's campaign machine into Obama's governing machine

Feb 2, 09 8:35 PM CST
(Newser) - The shy middleman who spearheaded Barack Obama's campaign now plans to morph it into a powerful netroots organization, Lisa Taddeo writes in Esquire. Drawing on his unprecedented 13-million-name contact list, David Plouffe says he will soon unveil Organizing for America, a group aimed at drumming up support for policy initiatives.... More »

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Barack Obama • social networking • email • netroots • David Plouffe • grassroots • special interests • Barack Obama supporters • Obama administration

OPINION

 Not Everyone 
 'Fawning' Over 
 Prez Obama 

Tongue-in-cheek column mocks critics

Jan 23, 09 8:30 AM CST
(Newser) - You might be euphoric after Barack Obama’s inauguration, but “not everyone feels the ‘Obama high,’” writes Lloyd Garver on the Huffington Post. These “Democrat-haters” who “enjoy puncturing balloons of hope” probably viewed Inauguration Day through slightly less rose-colored glasses than you did: For... More »

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Barack Obama • inauguration • Barack Obama supporters • President Obama • Inauguration Day

 Houseguests Descend 
 for DC Slumber Party 

Couch space at a premium as friends and family flock to capital

Jan 20, 09 6:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Thousands of homes across the nation’s capital are jam-packed with out-of-town guests who've arrived to witness history, the Los Angeles Times reports. Guest bedrooms, sofas, and dorm room floors have been turned over to friends and family. "Every surface space, every comforter, every drop of hot water is... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • inauguration • Barack Obama supporters • President Obama • Inauguration Day

 J.Lo, Marc 
 Belatedly Hop 
 on Obama Wagon 

Couple will appear at inaugural ball

Jan 12, 09 10:12 AM CST
(Newser) - J.Lo and Marc Anthony are jumping on the Obama bandwagon—and being dubbed “vile opportunists” for their trouble, the New York Post reports. Though the power couple snubbed him during the campaign, Anthony will sing and Lopez will speak at the Latino Inaugural Ball Jan. 18, leading one... More »

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Barack Obama • celebrity • Jennifer Lopez • Marc Anthony • inauguration • Barack Obama supporters • Inauguration Day • inaugural balls

GLOSSIES



 Scarlett: 'I'm
 Not Pregnant' 

Actress not pregnant, not dishing on wedding

Jan 8, 09 11:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Scarlett Johansson wants to run a brothel—in the movies, that is. “It's only so long that people are going to want to see me in a corset. So I might as well do it now,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar. The famously tight-lipped actress also addresses rumors—... More »

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Barack Obama • celebrity • Scarlett Johansson • Barack Obama supporters • Ryan Reynolds • celebrity interview • President Obama

 Oprah House-Hunting  
 in DC  

Oprah Winfrey starts housing search in DC.

Dec 19, 08 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Call it Chicago on the Potomac—Oprah Winfrey and the Obamas may soon be neighbors again. The multimedia titan, an early and enthusiastic supporter of the president-elect’s campaign, is house-hunting in Washington, the New York Post reports. The hot rumor is that she's leaning toward a $50 million Georgetown... More »

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(Newser) - Barack Obama's cabinet picks may have elicited howls from the left, but he won't sell out his progressive supporters, E.J. Dionne, Jr. writes in The New Republic. For starters, Obama never was a true economic lefty—that was John Edwards' role. Like John F. Kennedy 45 years ago, Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • lefties • Barack Obama supporters • liberal

 Time, CNN Top College Faves 

Annual marketing survey yields weightier results

Dec 1, 08 6:34 AM CST
(Newser) - College students took a break from beer pong to take stock of the world, a study of their favorite brands suggests. Time unseated Cosmopolitan as top magazine among the 1,000 students surveyed, while CNN.com bumped Perez Hilton off the list of top websites, Advertising Age reports. "World... More »

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Barack Obama • brands • marketing • college • CNN • Time magazine • Barack Obama supporters • survey

 Clinton at State 
 Troubles 
 Obamanauts 

Trained Clinton-haters have to turn on a dime

Nov 18, 08 9:55 AM CST
(Newser) - While a Hillary Clinton appointment as secretary of State has been greeted with enthusiasm worldwide, Barack Obama’s own team of believers is feeling some confusion and dissonance, reports Politico. “These guys didn't put together a campaign in order to turn the government over to the Clintons,” says... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • secretary of State • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

Gen X to Boomers:
We Get It Now

With Obam's election, Gen X sees the political light

Nov 9, 08 5:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Sorry, boomers, for taking so long to drop the cynicism and eye-rolling, writes Heather Havrilesky in Salon. But to those who "became rational adults at the exact moment a reckless frat boy boomer became president," your generation's idealism and tales of '60s radicalism fell flat, she spills. Barack... More »

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Barack Obama • baby boomer • Generation X • salon • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008

DC Anticipates 1.5M for Historic Inauguration

More than 1.5 million expected for historic event

Nov 8, 08 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Hotel rooms will be as scarce as McCain-Palin T-shirts in Washington on Inauguration Day, the Wall Street Journal reports, as a record-breaking tide of Obama supporters—especially black Americans—makes a pilgrimage to witness the historic moment. More than 1.5 million people are expected to flood the city for... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • inauguration • Barack Obama supporters • President Obama • Inauguration Day

Obama Pushes Don't-Let-Up 'Closing Argument'

'We are one week away from changing America,' Dem says in Ohio

Oct 27, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama warned voters today against acting as if he’s already won the election, urging them not to “let up for one day, one minute, or one second in this last week,” CNN reports. Speaking in Canton, Ohio, Obama charged that 4 more years of “Bush-McCain”... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • taxes • Ohio • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • swing states

ANALYSIS

Will They Still Love Him
When He's Prez?

Trusting activists may be weapons for President Obama, or betrayed by him

Oct 26, 08 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - What will happen to Barack Obama’s fan base if he wins? The devoted followers, who wield unusual power in the campaign and feel close to their candidate, won’t vanish after November and could be a powerful weapon for his agenda, Howard Fineman writes in Newsweek. But if Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008

Poll: Obama
Is Most-Liked Candidate Since Reagan

Palin's high negatives dragging down Mac

Oct 21, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is the most well-liked first-term presidential candidate in 28 years, New York Times/CBS polls found. More than half of voters, 53%, have a favorable impression of the Illinois senator, a 10-point increase over last month. And though John McCain’s approval ratings held steady, voters with a negative... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democratic campaign • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • favorability rating • opinion polls

ANALYSIS

McCain Sees Comeback; Tightening Race More Like It

Broader, old-school attacks bringing some GOP voters back to fold, but that's no surge

Oct 20, 08 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - As supporters get increasingly giddy about Barack Obama’s persistent lead in the polls, advisers to John McCain charge the media is ignoring a comeback by their candidate, writes Chris Cillizza in the Washington Post. The McCain campaign credits a return to a traditionally Republican tax-based argument for some recent... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Barack Obama supporters • comeback • Election 2008 • senator • opinion polls

Mac Advisers Fear Powell Will Endorse Obama Sunday

National-security heavyweight's camp mum on surprise Meet the Press appearance

Oct 17, 08 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colin Powell could endorse Barack Obama when he appears on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Republican sources tell Politico. No one is exactly sure what Powell will say, but McCain advisers seem convinced that the retired general will throw his considerable national-security heft behind Democrat. More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • military • Republican • Colin Powell • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • Army general

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