While stumping at a Women for Obama rally in Coral Gables, Florida this morning, Sen. Barack Obama was interrupted by a raucous group of protesters holding at least 12 signs with the letters “KKK” and “gay marriage” written on them. It looked as if most, if not all, of the protesters were African-American as [...]

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CNN is calling it.  It’s an Obama/Biden ticket.  It seems that the Obama campaign is once again playing it safe, taking the frontrunner’s strategy when they are anything but.  It’s like shutting down your offense and trying to milk the clock at the start of the 4th quarter in basketball with a 7 point lead.  [...]

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Obama likes it cushy. What? According to the LA Times’ Travel Blog, the Chicago dreamboat’s campaign has spent almost $300,000 more on luxury hotels than then Hill-Hills and almost $500,000 more than the McCainites. What’s going on Chi-Town? The Holiday Inn Express website’s “smart meter” calculates the amount of money each candidate would’ve saved if [...]

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It’s Crazy Super Tuesday and former long-time CBS anchor Dan Rather is setting up shop today at USC’s Annenberg School. He’s kicking off live coverage of the big day for his HDNET program, Dan Rather Reports. But before taking the stage tonight, he spoke to students about national politics and the news.
In addition to [...]

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Allow me to brag: my grandmother was one of the first female executive directors of a Jewish Community Center (also called a YM-YWHA) in the United States. She not only led “the Y” in Suffolk County, Long Island; she founded it.
“I started the Y from scratch in 1975 in a little office about the [...]

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If you haven’t yet felt the tinge of excitement and inspiration in the presidential campaign, check out this video. Have the tissues nearby.
It’s pretty damn amazing that a presidential candidate who actually has an excellent chance of winning can be this inspiring to so many people. This isn’t Mike Gravel or Ron Paul - [...]

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If you were nominated by your major media bosses to cover the presidential campaign, congratulations and, I’m sorry. Although an important beat, it has also got to be exhausting, repetitive and overwhelming. The email alone must be mountainous, amounting to an inbox in every account, personal and professional, stuffed to the brim with messages from [...]

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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards showed up at the Writers Guild of America strike yesterday at NBC studios in Burbank. He walked the picket line and then gave a brief shout out to the writers and to union members across industries in every part of the country. Unions are a bulwark against the corporate take [...]

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Seriously trailing in the polls, raising questions everywhere he goes about his continued viability as a candidate, John McCain brought out the big guns this week: he asked his moms, 95-year-old Roberta McCain, to step out at MSNBC and tell the world what a great president her little Johnny would make. It’s like you went [...]

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Fighting off religious extremists and tyrannical dictators is so 2004. Rudy Giuliani says he’s ready to fend off space invaders. Notice, though, that he doesn’t seem a team player. He doesn’t say anything about rallying a “coalition of the mutually endangered” against the intergalactic enemy. He just says “we” as in “We’ll be ready for [...]

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We’re strongly committed to the cause… at least as long as we’re still running for office!

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The key to a successful campaign stop is keeping it local: apple pie at the neighborhood diner, ice cream socials on the common, tours of county farms, factories and schools. So where do the candidates go when they want to rub elbows with LA locals? The hottest clubs, of course. But how hot is too [...]

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There’s an adage that advises against mixing friends and money… but it must have been formulated before a presidential candidate could gain hundreds of thousands of virtual friends on the web, each with their own credit card.
The New York Times reported this week that Democratic presidential candidates have had more success than their Republican counterparts [...]

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Thousands descended on Rancho Cienega in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South LA to kickstart the Barack Obama 2008 campaign yesterday. Even ex-Doors drummer John Densmore was there and performed an electrifying set with a few percussionists and a sax player to get the crowd amped.

 

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Who says public financing is dead? A bill introduced Tuesday is shaking up the way presidential campaigns are funded. It’s also making it a heck of a lot harder to comprehend an already complicated issue.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, it is important to understand how the system operates now. Spearheaded after [...]

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