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'Rogue' Palin Was Reading From Script

McCain team wrote 'palling around with terrorists' line: book

Jul 10, 09 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin was actually on message when she attacked Barack Obama’s relationship with former Weatherman Bill Ayers during last year's campaign, the Atlantic reports. A new book, The Battle for America, reveals that Palin received an email from top McCain staff suggesting she use the Ayers attack.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorist • campaign • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Bill Ayers • President Obama

(Newser) - Mitt Romney says he’s not running for office, but his former aides don’t believe him, Politico reports. Romney’s campaign staff never really disbanded. Loyalists meet in Washington every month, hold fundraisers, brief Romney on current events, and strategically publicize his every move. It’s a turnkey political... More »

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Mitt Romney • GOP • Republican Party • Republican presidential primaries • campaign staff • Election 2012 • Election 2010

(Newser) - The odds of getting a job in the Obama administration aren’t great—the White House has hundreds of thousands of applicants for a little more than 3000 jobs—but that hasn’t deterred young, would-be Obama-ites, the Washington Post reports. Applicants are flooding the capital, networking online and,... More »

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White House • campaign staff • job • Obama administration

Obama Campaign Advisers Left Out in the Cold

Members of foreign policy team passed over for more center-right candidates

Feb 11, 09 5:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Prominent advisers to presidential candidates can usually count on having their pick of administration jobs after the campaign. Not so with candidate Obama's foreign policy team, most of whom shaded to the left, the LA Times reports. It stems from the president's decision to give the three top national security... More »

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Cabinet • adviser • campaign staff • Obama administration • President Obama • Obama Cabinet • Obama campaign

Matthews Rounds Up Staff
for Senate Run

MSNBC host denies deals with Obama aides for 2010

Nov 28, 08 5:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Chris Matthews is lining up a top-notch staff to manage his campaign for the Pennsylvania Senate seat held by Arlen Specter, FiveThirtyEight reports. Multiple sources say the MSNBC host has made deals with seasoned Obama aides to run the 2010 campaign. Polls already show that Matthews, running as a Democrat,... More »

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Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Chris Matthews • campaign staff • Obama campaign • Election 2010

Munificent Obama Empties Coffers on Staff

Some get an extra month's pay, can keep BlackBerrys and laptops

Nov 14, 08 3:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign is redistributing the wealth to the staff, the New York Daily News reports. The loaded campaign will give its troops a bonus equivalent to a month’s pay and allow employees to keep campaign-issued phones and computers, provided they pay the taxes. “It's a very... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • bonuses • campaign staff • Election 2008 • President Obama

Palin 'Didn't Know Africa
Is a Continent'

Insiders spill beans on Mac's troublesome
veep choice

Nov 6, 08 2:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's shaky grasp of geography stressed out the McCain campaign, the Chicago Tribune reports. A Fox News reporter, sworn to secrecy until after the election, said a campaign insider told him Palin was unaware that Africa was a continent rather than a single country, and she was unable to... More »

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Africa • Katie Couric • geography • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

ANALYSIS

 Role in 
 White House 
 for Obama 
 Strategist? 



Strategist Axelrod seen as key policy cog, but he could be a target in Washington

Oct 27, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Barack Obama holding a lead in the polls, Democrats have begun discussing what, if any, role his top campaign strategist might have in an Obama White House, Politico reports. David Axelrod, say those who know him, is seriously weighing an administration position; where he ends up could be key... More »

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Barack Obama • Karl Rove • James Carville • campaign staff • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • political strategists

ANALYSIS

How Revolving Narratives Swamped Would-Be Narrator

McCain's move from tactic to tactic resulted in confused overall strategy

Oct 23, 08 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign has gone through a dizzying number of narratives, as Robert Draper outlines in the New York Times. Draper looks inside a dysfunctional operation driven by two quarreling old McCain friends (Rick Davis and speechwriter Mark Salter), and the Rovian outsider who reconciled them (Steve Schmidt). The... More »

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John McCain • Rick Davis • Robert Draper • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • Election 2008 • Mark Salter • Sarah Palin • Steve Schmidt

Obama Turns Army Loose on Chicago's WGN

Supporters protest radio airtime for campaign critic

Aug 28, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's camp deployed its devoted followers to flood the phone lines of Chicago's WGN-AM last night during an appearance by writer Stanley Kurtz, an Obama critic. A WGN producer tells the Tribune the campaign's push generated “the biggest response we've ever got” during the 2-hour segment with Kurtz,... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign advertising • Barack Obama supporters • campaign staff • campaign etiquette • Stanley Kurtz • WGN

Analysis

 How Infighting Doomed Clinton 

Long awaited post-mortem details stunningly disfunctional campaign

Aug 12, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid failed for many reasons, the most prominent her campaign team's stunning dysfunction, writes Joshua Green in a much-anticipated Atlantic Monthly feature. Green uncovered a trove of memos, finding a team overwhelmed by “anger and toxic obsessions.” Clinton acted nothing like a chief... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Hillaryland • campaign staff • Mark Penn

OPINION

 Ben Stein:
 Time for
 Mac to
 Call Rove

Candidate running 'absolute most pathetic campaign I have ever seen'

Jul 28, 08 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative stalwart Ben Stein thought Bob Dole's quest for the White House set the bar low, but says John McCain is “running the absolute most pathetic campaign I have ever seen in my whole life.” But there’s an answer ("Anyone? Anyone?")—talk to Karl Rove,... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Ben Stein • campaign staff • Election 2008 • campaign tactics

A Kennedy Finds Her Political Calling

Caroline's role in the Obama campaign is a serious 'coming out'

Jul 26, 08 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has spurred John F. Kennedy's only surviving child to step into the political spotlight, and not just as window dressing, the Wall Street Journal reports. As co-chair of the candidate's vice-presidential search committee, she is a serious vetter, and she's becoming a major draw on the campaign... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • campaign staff

Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain

Lawmakers cite lack of coordination with presidential candidate

Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some Congressional Democrats say they're not feeling the love from Barack Obama's campaign, Politico reports, with the candidate inattentive to broader election strategy and his camp uncommunicative on the day-to-day message blitz. "They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” one senior... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Congress • Democrats • Harry Reid • campaign fundraising • congressional Democrats • campaign • campaign staff

The Man, and
the Message, McCain's
Been Missing

Enter '00 mastermind Mike Murphy

Jul 7, 08 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mike Murphy, the irreverent mastermind behind John McCain’s 2000 presidential bid, is poised to swoop in and rescue his stalled 2008 effort, writes William Kristol in the New York Times. Murphy sat out the primaries because he was close to both Romney and McCain, but with McCain’s machine... More »

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John McCain • Republican strategist • McCain 2008 • campaign staff • political strategists • Steve Schmidt • Mike Murphy • William Kristol

Obama Campaign Fixes Gender Balance

New female hires
should help him reach out to Clinton voters

Jun 21, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has been getting more women on board at high levels, Politico reports. Female activists welcome the new hires, while campaign insiders say the "boy's club" image that dogged Obama's campaign during the primaries was never correct. Among the biggest names are Patti Solis Doyle, former campaign... More »

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Barack Obama • women • campaign adviser • Patti Solis Doyle • campaign staff

 Obama as Manager:
 Crisp, Even, Big-Picture Guy 

Senator lets top advisers take control on many issues

Jun 16, 08 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's not a micromanager, he's not an obsessor, and he's not a blamer, the New York Times notes in a piece on the Democratic candidate's developing style as commander in chief of his campaign. After losing the Pennsylvania primary, he took a firmer grip on the wheel of his... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign staff • Election 2008 • campaign tactics

David Axelrod: Obama's Mastermind
—and No. 1 Fan

He gets passionate about his candidates

May 2, 08 11:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Axelrod isn’t just a political hired gun. Instead, Barack Obama’s chief strategist backs his candidates with the same passion he reserves for his beloved Cubs and Bulls, the Washington Post reports in a lengthy profile. “He loves his candidates when he starts. He’s usually... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign adviser • Obama 2008 • campaign staff • David Axelrod • political strategists

 Campaign Fatigue Grips Dems 

On trail with no end in sight, both camps are exhausted

Apr 27, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama likes to joke that since his campaign started, "babies have been born and are now walking and talking," but he's hardly exaggerating. The last 15 months have seen staffers from both his and Hillary Clinton's camps get married, become parents, and grow increasingly exhausted as the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • David Plouffe • campaign • fatigue • Maggie Williams • campaign staff

Bill Resumes Central Role
in Hillary's Campaign

Despite his critics, he seems to helping her regain momentum

Apr 26, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite controversial remarks on more than one occasion, Bill Clinton has moved to the forefront of his wife’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports. In what some insiders call the “Billification” of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, the ex-President is pushing for sharper attacks on Barack Obama amid... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • campaign trail • campaign staff • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008 • campaign tactics • North Carolina primary

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