According to First Read, a 20% turnout increase breaking 60%-40% for Obama would swing four states from red to blue.
Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, and Ohio called all be major factors in the general election if the voter turnout meets or exceeds the rise that we saw in the Democratic primary. If Obama wins the new […]

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Jim Johnson, a key figure in the Barack Obama campaign’s VP search committee, stepped down today according to Politico and several other sources.
Johnson put out a statement earlier today:
“I believe Barack Obama’s candidacy for President of the United States is the most exciting and important of my lifetime,” he said, according to a Bloomberg report. […]

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The Barack Obama campaign have officially formed a team of senior staff members for the sole purpose of combating viral internet rumors that have become a problem for him during his campaign.
Probably the most viral of these attacks, the one where Obama is “some kind of Muslim Manchurian candidate, planted by Islamic fundamentalists to betray […]

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Thanks to The Jed Report for posting up the latest McCain lie complete with video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntob7TQdBt4

Obviously, John McCain does not understand the power of the internet in this day and age. How can he actually say something in a speech and then just a few days later, say he didn’t say it, knowing that he just […]

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Here in my great state of South Carolina, it is red…..really red.
With that being said, you would think that John McCain could muster up at least 50% of the vote in South Carolina, but according to the newest Rasmussen SC poll, he can’t:
McCain - 48%
Obama - 39%
This is the same state that Bush carried in […]

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It is really hard to imagine that a candidate with the last name of Clinton would have trouble raising money for a major, national political campaign. However, according to Mark Penn, who was a top adviser for the Clinton campaign, money may have been the primary factor in Hillary Clinton’s loss.
While everyone loves to talk […]

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Sen. Barack Obama, fresh off his Democratic nomination victory, has now gained a modest boost in the latest general election poll numbers.
Rasmussen Reports has just released their latest daily tracking poll that shows a small boost for Obama:
Obama - 48%
McCain - 40%
These numbers reflect the bump that Obama received since the last poll release that […]

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Kristina Rizga has posted a great piece at WireTap Magazine discussing how the Obama nomination is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for youth organizers.
Now that the more preferred candidate among youth is the nominee, there is a huge potential to engage and mobilize the 17 million 18- to 25-year-olds, who have not yet voted in the primaries.
That […]

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Politico has a great piece today on the recent John McCain speech Tuesday night and how the Republicans are flipping out over it, in a bad way.
“They were appalled at the environment the candidate was standing in and his performance,” said this strategist. “It’s a serious problem — the contrast is so clear that […]

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Sen. John McCain recently relaunched his website, his message, and his slogans to “better communicate with the American people.”
What I find funny is that his new campaign look strikingly resembles that of another candidate that you may have heard of, Barack Obama.
First, let’s take a look at John McCain’s new slogan and background graphic….

The Slogan: […]

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Sen. John McCain has once again sided with the Bush Administration on another issue that he originally was against, according to a top adviser in the McCain campaign.
In a letter posted online by National Review this week, the adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Mr. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize […]

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MSNBC/NBC has confirmed that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are currently in a meeting tonight at her D.C. home.
Not sure what may come of it, but I would guess they are talking over several things, including the VP spot, uniting the party, and coming up with a way to help pay off Clinton’s estimated $20 […]

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A top adviser within the Barack Obama campaign says that Obama is open to the idea of helping Hillary Clinton pay off her estimated $20 million campaign debt, according the Bloomberg.
While Obama cannot directly pay the debt for Clinton, per campaign finance laws, Obama could hold fundraising events and ask his supporters to donate to […]

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Time Magazine has a must-read piece today on the Obama campaign that is certainly a worthy read.
“The 2008 presidential campaign has produced its share of surprises, but one of the most important is that a newcomer from Chicago put together by far the best political operation of either party. Obama’s campaign has been that rare, […]

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Future Majority, the blog dedicated to progressive youth politics, will be hosting two separate live-blog events this week.
The first will be taking place tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:30pm with Jared Polis, who will be live-blogging for about an hour.
The second live-blog event will be on Friday at 2pm with Darcy Burner, who is running for Congress […]

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