Kim Geiger investigates a new website designed to help people campaign for Obama.
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Website links Obama Volunteers and Donors
November 2, 2008 – 11:40 pm
Shifting Sands – Nevada’s 3rd District is Leaning Blue
November 1, 2008 – 9:01 am
by Tuomas Forsell
Republican congressman Jon Porter is fighting a race of his life in Nevada’s 3rd district.
Democratic candidate Dina Titus is looking to turn the district blue, and an influx of new residents, rising unemployment and one of the highest home foreclosure rates in the country could tip the race in her favor.
Musgrave Has Tough Fight In CO 4
October 29, 2008 – 11:15 pm
By Nicholas Kusnetz
FORT COLLINS—Marilyn Musgrave should be a shoo-in for reelection based on the overwhelmingly Republican electorate here in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. Instead, the three-term incumbent who went to Washington pushing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage is fighting for her political life. This staunch conservative spends her time on the stump talking [...]
Listening Posts: Debate Watching in CO 4
October 7, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Fort Collins, Colorado – All the hope and energy of Colorado’s blossoming Democratic party were on display here Tuesday night as hundreds of enthusiastic Barack Obama fans crowded into Avogadro’s patio restaurant to watch the second presidential debate, cheering their candidate and jeering his opponent, Senator John McCain.
It is this energy that Colorado Democrats up [...]
Listening Posts: Debate Watching in MN 3
September 27, 2008 – 11:33 am
MINNEAPOLIS – Republicans said John McCain nailed it. Democrats said Barack Obama was downright presidential. And the undecided voters here at the Hopkins VFW Post said nothing they heard in tonight’s much anticipated debate pulled them off the fence.
Minnesotans of all political stripes congregated at house parties, restaurants and community centers throughout suburban Minneapolis to [...]
Huckabee Comments And The Unspoken Obsession With Obama’s Assassination
May 16, 2008 – 10:30 pm
Former GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, known for his witty one-liners on the campaign trail, today showed that there is such a thing as being too quick on one’s feet. Speaking to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Huckabee made an off-color remark regarding Barack Obama having a gun aimed at him [...]
Clinton/Obama Dream Ticket?
April 13, 2008 – 11:40 pm
By Larry Santana, Paul Gackle and Kim Geiger
A former Clinton campaign aide has launched a web petition, voteboth.com., in hopes of reviving the notion of a Democratic “dream ticket.”
The site doesn’t specify who would be on the top of the ticket. But it was sponsored by something called Democrats United for Clinton—slash–Obama ’08.
We went [...]
