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In Unprecedented Move, Obama Turns Campaign Into Powerful Lobbying Group

In an unprecedented move, President Obama is converting his campaign apparatus into a nonprofit that will continue to work on behalf of his agenda during his second term. The campaign spent $2 billion to get him elected and was widely credited with being the best organized, most technologically savvy political campaign in the history of [...]

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Election First: Obama Will Accept Donations Through Text Messages

In a sign of just how far technology has pushed the modern presidential campaign, the Obama campaign is about to start accepting text message donations. It is a timely tool that will allow the president to appeal to small donors and young donors in a way that could potentially change the way that political campaigns [...]

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker Gets Scolded by Obama Campaign

Newark Mayor Cory Booker traveled across the entire country to deliver a speech to Democrats in Seattle, where he jokingly told them he had been advised by the Obama campaign to avoid sticking his foot in his mouth again. Booker was referring to the media storm he created when he went on Meet the Press [...]

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Bill Clinton Thinks The Obama Campaign Attacking Romney on Bain Capital is Bad Strategy

Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday night became the latest surrogate for President Obama to stray from campaign talking points, saying GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s business experience “crosses the qualification threshold.” In an interview on the Piers Morgan show on CNN, Clinton said the Obama campaign shouldn’t spend its energy criticizing Romney’s work at Bain [...]

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Obama Campaign Moves “Forward” to College Crowds

In this era of soundbite and bumper sticker politicking, when it becomes increasingly necessary to boil the entirety of your political campaign down to a couple of words, President Obama said his campaign is not abandoning what worked the last time: “hope” and “change.” This time, however, they have added a third word: Forward. So [...]