Sen. Barack Obama, in a video message yesterday, officially declined to take the public financing route in order to fund his general election campaign for president. Under the public financing plan, Obama would have received $84 million for his campaign but has instead chosen to rely on his enormous bank of small donors and supporters […]

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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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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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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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Breaking story from The Boston Globe:
In a major embarrassment to Republican leaders in Massachusetts and in the U.S. Senate, Jim Ogonowski, the party’s anointed candidate to challenge Democratic Senator John F. Kerry, failed by a razor-thin margin today to qualify for the GOP primary ballot.
Ogonowski was just 30 voter signatures short of the 10,000 needed […]

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Tonight, our country has witnessed what few people ever thought could happen. Tonight, our country has risen to the challenge of putting race aside for the betterment of our country. Many said it could not be done. Many said it would not be done. For those that doubted this nation in their ability to elect […]

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Mark Warner, who is running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Virginia, has released his first TV ad for his campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AogiXXrHc

Warner is the former Virginia Governor who did quite a fantastic job in cleaning up VA and putting the state back on track.
This would be an excellent Senate seat pickup for the Democrats in […]

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Sen. Barack Obama, without a doubt, has the most brilliant political strategist that our nation has ever witnessed. That strategist is David Axelrod.
Let’s take a look at what has transpired over the last 24 hours and I think you will agree with my assessment.
First, Sen. Clinton wins impressively in West Virginia last night. It was […]

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