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David Axelrod stories: 49 news summaries

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CAMPAIGN MEMOIR

 Bill Sank Hillary's 
 VP Chances: Plouffe 

Clinton was still in contention in June: new memoir

Oct 29, 09 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama campaign seriously considered Hillary Clinton for vice president, but ultimately the perception that her husband was "too big a complication" combined with bad memories from the primary campaign to sink her chances. Barack Obama “said if his central criterion measured who could be the best VP,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • vice president • memoir • David Plouffe • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • vice presidential candidate • President Obama • excerpt • The Audacity to Win

 Obama Bigwigs 
 Take Aim at 
 Wall Street 


Says execs can't have their bailouts, and their bonuses, too

Oct 19, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wall Street is getting ready to hand out some hefty bonuses, and the Obama administration is already crashing the party, with top aides loudly dressing down execs, framing them as would-be fat cats who only last year were on the public dole. "The bonuses are offensive," says David... More »

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Wall Street • Rahm Emanuel • Valerie Jarrett • David Axelrod • financial crisis • Wall Street bailout • President Obama

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 White House: 
 Fox Is 'Not 
 Really News' 


Administration still sparring with conservative network

Oct 18, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House continued its scuffle with Fox News today, with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace complaining on-air that the administration dissed its request for an interview, while top aides took to competing networks to denounce it. It's "not really news," David Axelrod told This Week. The... More »

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White House • Fox News • John Cornyn • Rahm Emanuel • health care reform • Valerie Jarrett • David Axelrod • President Obama • Fox News Sunday • Sunday morning talk shows

 Rahm Leads 
 List of DC 
 Power Hitters 
 

Gates No. 2 in poll of the capital's most powerful people, from pols to stylists

Oct 16, 09 3:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scratch the names Obama and Biden from the list and it's Rahm Emanuel who carries the most clout in a city packed with power-brokers, according to a GQ poll of Washington insiders. The "ruthlessly pragmatic" White House chief of staff is a lot more than just a gatekeeper to... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Ben Bernanke • Dick Cheney • Washington DC • Rahm Emanuel • David Axelrod • Peter Orszag

ANALYSIS

No Rest for
Beleaguered
President

Obama steels for fight as digs at hubris, inexperience continue

Sep 7, 09 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and his allies are calling this week a make-or-break climax for his  administration. He met with the House and Senate leadership last week, his top lieutenants blanketed the talk shows yesterday, and he's holding two meetings with health advisers today. Obama is faced with finishing the health-care battle... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • David Axelrod • Obama administration

Stung by Polls, Obama Plans Health Care Offensive

Prez open to dropping public option

Sep 2, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is heading into autumn with a new strategy in hand: He’s going to get specific on what he wants in health care legislation, reports Politico. He is expected to lay out details in a major address soon, and he will reiterate that he's willing to let the... More »

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Afghanistan • Wall Street • politics • health care reform • David Axelrod • strategy • President Obama

White House Pushes Against Reform 'Myths'

Grassley says death panel language gone from Senate bill

Aug 13, 09 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - The White House has chosen to fight fire with fire in its battle for health care reform, the Washington Post reports. An email from David Axelrod posted on the White House web site expresses bafflement at the "lies and distortions" of opponents. Axelrod, whose email went up after... More »

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Congress • Senate • White House • Charles Grassley • health care reform • David Axelrod • Obama administration • President Obama

 Health-Care Protesters 
 Winning Sympathy: Poll 

34% 'more sympathetic' to protesters, 21% less

Aug 13, 09 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Town-hall protesters have succeeded in making some Americans “more sympathetic” to their health care views, a USA Today/Gallup poll finds. Of 1,000 adults surveyed, 34% say they’re now more sympathetic of the protesters’ stance, while 21% say they’re less. Among independents, that grows to a 2-to-1... More »

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poll • health care reform • town hall meeting • independents • David Axelrod • protesters • Gallup poll • Nate Silver

Health Care Debate Readies for Road Trip

Democrats will spend recess targeting insurance companies

Aug 3, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the House already on break and the Senate readying for the August recess, the health care debate has moved to the court of public opinion, the New York Times reports. Both sides are launching campaign tours and waves of TV ads, with Democrats attacking the insurance industry and... More »

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health care • health insurance • House of Representatives • Republican Party • health care reform • political advertising • Democratic Party • David Axelrod • US Senate • Obama administration • political strategy

MOVIE REVIEW

 HBO Campaign Doc 
 Shows Same Cool Obama 


Jul 30, 09 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new documentary on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign depicts not much more or less than the restraint and measured response we’ve come to associate with our president, Ted Johnson writes for Variety. HBO’s By the People, to air Nov. 3, was not intended as an “exposé... More »

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HBO • Chicago Sun Times • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • documentary film • Edward Norton • Obama administration • President Obama • Obama campaign • Lynn Sweet

ANALYSIS

 He Can't Say It 
 Like He Wants to Anymore


Jul 27, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has backed off a bit on his “acted stupidly” comments concerning the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates, saying they were not properly “calibrated.” But, aides say, it “was not a slip of the tongue,” Peter Baker writes in the New York ... More »

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White House • Ari Fleischer • health care reform • David Axelrod • Obama administration • John Podesta • President Obama • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Skip Gates

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Axelrod Won't 
 Rule Out 
 Second 
 Stimulus 

Grassley says GOP 'won't be hoodwinked' on health care reform

Jun 28, 09 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - With unemployment rates still rising, the White House isn’t ruling out the possibility of a second stimulus package, The Hill reports. On This Week, David Axelrod refused to “prejudge” the issue. But on Face the Nation, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour countered, “The real long-term effect is very... More »

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climate change • health care • Haley Barbour • economic stimulus package • David Axelrod • Gen. Ray Odierno

analysis

 Emanuel's Media Blitz 
 Goes 'Relentlessly' 24/7 

'Aggressive,' 'relentless' Rahm 'in constant touch'

Jun 23, 09 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rahm Emanuel is “in constant touch” with journalists, offering a “round-the-clock offensive” on behalf of the White House, writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. “He calls, drops a few F-bombs, makes his point and hangs up,” says one commentator. Brief he may be, but “... More »

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media • White House • press • Rahm Emanuel • David Axelrod • Obama administration • chief of staff • Howard Kurtz

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Hillary: Obama 'Absolutely' Able to Handle 3am Call

Secretary of state puts Iran, N. Korea on notice

Jun 7, 09 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton made her first Sunday show appearance as secretary of state today, vowing “there would be retaliation” against Iran if it attacked Israel, and that Washington might return North Korea to its state terror list. Clinton, speaking on This Week a year to the day after she ceded... More »

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Iran • health care • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Israel • North Korea • Newt Gingrich • Richard Shelby • health care reform • David Axelrod

Obama Already Throwing Weight for Midterms

Takes steps for Reid, Specter, Gillibrand
4 months into term

May 26, 09 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - He’s been in office just a few months—but President Obama’s already working to get Democrats elected in 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports. So far this month, Obama has urged a potential candidate to run in North Carolina, battled a primary threat to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, pledged... More »

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Congress • Harry Reid • Arlen Specter • Democratic Party • David Axelrod • President Obama • Election 2010 • Kirsten Gillibrand

(Newser) - Obama adviser David Axelrod took the bait and appeared for a taping last night of NPR’s quiz show, Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!—with by turns earnest and hilarious results, Politico reports. When host Peter Sagal asked if he’d been in on the presidential pooch... More »

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entertainment • radio • Peter Sagal • David Axelrod • NPR • National Public Radio • Obama administration • Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! • quiz show

Supreme Wish List: Pragmatist, Easy to Confirm, 'Home Run'

As Obama vetting begins, 4 women lead

May 10, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's choice to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court will be a pragmatist unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom, insiders tell the Washington Post. While Obama will not play it safe, they say, neither does he want a provocative choice that will create another partisan confirmation battle. "... More »

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Barack Obama • pragmatism • Jennifer Granholm • US Supreme Court • David Axelrod • David Souter • Elena Kagan • Sonia Sotomayor • Diane Wood

 Treasury's Mantra: 
 'Rahm Wants It' 

"Rahm wants it" is new motto around Geithner's office

May 1, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tim Geithner's early struggles to gain the confidence of the markets and the public have led to a stronger-than-usual White House presence at the Treasury Department, where "Rahm wants it" is a frequent refrain, reports the Wall Street Journal. Although it's a dramatic shift from the Hank Paulson regime,... More »

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Rahm Emanuel • Treasury Department • David Axelrod • Obama administration • Treasury secretary • Timothy Geithner

(Newser) - With decisions that some presidents don’t make in 4 years packed into his first 100 days, what President Obama’s advisers deride as a “Hallmark holiday” presents a legitimate occasion for a report card, and for a Politico team to catch up with White House insiders. “I... More »

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Barack Obama • Rahm Emanuel • David Axelrod • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • 100 days

ANALYSIS

 White House's 
 Preferred 
 First-100-Days 
 Story Lines 

Look out for these White House plugs next Wednesday

Apr 23, 09 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's savvy advisers may scoff at his 100th day as a "Hallmark holiday," but they're happy to tell reporters how to cover it. Politico lists what the White House is spinning:
  • Obama's not overambitious, just a promise-keeper—right down to that new pup.
  • His broader
... More »

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Barack Obama • White House • list • presidential adviser • David Axelrod • Obama administration • President Obama • 100 days

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