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Brilliant Attack Ad Links McCain and Bush
Obama Raises $51m to Mcain's $27m in July
The July fundraising numbers are out and Barack Obama continues to kick John McCain's pale white butt!From Politico.com:McCain revealed Friday that he raised $27 million last month, his best month of ...
Oprah's Endorsement Worth A Million Votes For Obama
Kevin Drum has an interesting post about an article which attempts to quantify the impact of Oprah Winfrey's early endorsement of Barack Obama during the Democratic presidential primary campaign. Econ...
VIDEO: Obama Ad Hits Back On Energy
Happy Birthday, Barack Obama!
Barack Obama turns 47 years old today. Happy Birthday, Mr. President Senator!...
VIDEO: Obama Responds To McCain's False Ad
The Veepstakes Heat Up: McCain-Romney and Obama-Kaine
former VA Gov. Tom Kaine and Obama McCain and former MA Gov Mitt RomneyThere are exactly 26 days until the start of the Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 25-28. So, sometime in the n...
VIDEO: Commander-in-chief test
Obama and McCain Cartoon Images
Obama Even More Popular With Latino Voters Than Clinton
Black and brown people unite! There's a new poll out showing that Hispanic voters prefer Barack Obama to John McCain for President.Obama's approval rating with registered Latino voters, the nationwide...
Obama in Berlin
Barack Obama with 200, 000 of his German friends....
McCain Talks About Iraq/Pakistan Border (Which Doesn't Exist)
John Aravosis over at AmericaBlog caught this gaffe by John McCain on Sunday. Talking to ABC's Diane Sawyer, the 71-year-old Republican presidential candidate said:"I think it’s serious. . . . It's...
POLL: Obama Wins LGBT Vote 60-14
TowleRoad and Joe.My.God are both reporting on an online Harris Interactive poll of LGBT Americans which says that Barack Obama is ahead 60% to 14%.I must agree with both bloggers that it is surprisin...
Obama Raises $52 Million in June
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $52 million dollars in the month of June. This is $30 million more than John McCain's total of $22 million....
Obama Ad on National Security
Obama Has Poll Leads in MO, CO and USA
At Daily Kos front pager brownsox notes, Obama is leading in swing states lost by both John Kerry and Al Gore:NATIONALQuinnipiac. 7/8-13. MoE 2.4%.Obama (D) 50 McCain (R) 41NATIONALRasmussen. 7/14. ...
VIDEO: John McCain Campaign Ad (parody)
The New Yorker Loses Its Mind With Insane Obama Cover
This is thecontroversial cover of the July 21st issue of the New Yorker magazine which is starting to gather criticism (well-founded). Yes that is Barack Obama wearing Muslim gear, doing a "terrorist...
VIDEO: Second Barack Obama Ad
This is the second ad of the general election campaign by Barack Obama.Marc Ambinder has the text of the ad (and some analysis):OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message. Announcer: He wor...
Unity!
Hillary Clinton endorsed Barack Obama for president and campaigned with him in Unity, NH on Friday....
Obama Opens Up Wide Leads Over McCain
The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has Obama up by 12 points (49-37). With Libertarian Bob Barr and Green Party Ralph Nader included Obama's lead increases to 15 points! The L.A. Times poll appears...
Barack Obama's First General Election Ad
POLL: Obama Leads in FL, OH, PA
TPM Elelection Central has this report on a Quiinnipiac poll which shows that Barack Obama is leading John McCain in three "swing states" of Florida (27 electoral votes), Pennsylvania (21 electoral vo...
Al Gore Endorses Obama
Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama at a rally in Detroit, Michigan....
Barack Obama's Birth Certificate
What other presidential candidate has had to prove that they are "a real American" by releasing their actual birth certificate? Here's Barack Obama's, which was posted on DailyKos recently.It's a good...
Obama Extends Lead Over McCain in Tracking Poll
Barack Obama leads John McCain 48%-42% in the latest daily Gallup tracking poll (published June 11). The next poll will be Friday June 13th....
Obama Takes Lead In Daily Gallup Poll
A Delegate For Obama
Craig Hickman, proprietor of Craig Hickman's Tennis Blog, which I contribute pieces to regularly has become an official Maine Democratic delegate for Barack Obama.Congrats, Craig!!...
The Veepstakes Begin in Earnest for Obama
kennethinthe212 posted this picture of the current popular contenders to be Barack Obama's running mate. They are:Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE)NYC Mayor Mike BloombergRet. Gen. Wesley Cla...
Obama Clinches Democratic Nomination
Barack Obama is likely to become the next President of the United States. He clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination today....