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Orange to Blue: The Final Hours »

This is the last fundraising push we’re doing for the cycle, barring any runoffs, for our Orange to Blue candidates.
We have ambitious goals; we want to get to 30,000 total contributors, and we want to get Orange to Blue candidate Dan Seals up to $75,000, to help enable him to run this fantastic ad from […]

Obama seeks landslide; McCain says he’s far left »

Despite John McCain’s prediction of an upset, Barack Obama reached for a landslide Friday, invading his rival’s home state with TV ads and building a lead in early voting in key battlegrounds as the presidential race headed into a hectic final weekend.
McCain charged that Obama, bidding to become the first black president, “began his campaign […]

90 Percent Of Whites Comfortable With Black President »

The Washington Post reports “an overwhelming public openness to the idea of electing an African American to the presidency.”
In a Post-ABC News poll last month, nearly nine in 10 whites said they would be comfortable with a black president. While fewer whites, about two-thirds, said they would be “entirely comfortable” with it, that was more […]

Can McCain claim the Ron Paul votes? »

With iconoclast Ron Paul having ended his quixotic bid for the Republican presidential nomination - his platform had called for, among other things, ending the Iraq War, repealing the PATRIOT Act, returning to the gold standard and eliminating taxes on tips - his many dedicated supporters are up for grabs.
Even excluding his support in caucus […]

Gored: Obama could win vote, lose election »

Until 2000, it hadn’t happened in more than 100 years, but plugged-in observers from both parties see a distinct possibility of Barack Obama winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College — and with it the presidency — to John McCain.
Here’s the scenario: Obama racks up huge margins among the increasingly affluent, highly educated […]

Clinton asks top donors to meeting with Obama »

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to meet with some of her top contributors next week in an effort to calm donors who remain frustrated with Obama’s presidential campaign.The meeting is set for June 26 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, several top Clinton fundraisers said Tuesday. The former first lady will introduce Obama […]

Over 50,000 peoples have joined the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty »

Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty has just reached 50% of its membership goal within the first three days and this was a goal set to be reached by September 2, 2008.
That’s over 50,000 people who have joined the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty, Why would so many jump on board with this organization so quickly?
As […]

The impact of this election on the Supreme Court »

Robin Lee has posted a little essay titled: “Reason Number 1 Why Barack Obama Must Win in November.” I found it under the group heading “Barack’s Vice-President and Cabinet.”
The essay discusses some recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, which narrowly struck down some of the Bush administrations attempts to subvert the Constitution. […]

Obama The Preferred Candidate Around The World »

WASHINGTON — People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country’s policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Thursday.
The survey of two dozen countries, conducted this spring by the […]

Obama Moves To The Center »

Barack Obama faces the difficult task of shifting his message away from the primary electorate to general election voters, while avoiding angering the more liberal primary voters who gave him the presidential nomination.
Obama appears at the close of this week to have overcome one of his first hurdles — a furor among labor and activist […]