Devoted Believers

Are Obama’s True Believers Tired or Thrilled?

March 20, 2012
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Are Obama’s devoted followers feeling hope and change fatigue? President Barack Obama acknowledged that many of his supporters might be experiencing reelection exhaustion. “Remember what we said in the last campaign—real change, big change would be hard. It takes time. It may take more than a single term, it may take more than a single president,” [...]

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Big Bundlers Share “Dinner With Barack”

March 15, 2012
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More than three dozen of the guests at last night’s White House state dinner honoring British Prime Minister David Cameron were President Obama’s reelection campaign bundlers. The volunteer fundraising group included media moguls such as Harvey Weinstein and Microsoft corporate executives. The devoted group numbered 41 of the 364 expected attendees at the event. The bundlers [...]

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Will “Women 2012″ Include Obama Girl?

February 21, 2012
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Team Obama launched its “Women for Obama” initiative yesterday. The Obama campaign tweeted and emailed the better half of its supporters to “Attend a House Meeting” on February 22. The First Lady will be conference calling in to the “living room” meetings to drum up support for her husband’s reelection. The campaign pitch promises that these [...]

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Is Obama Coloring His Campaign Again?

February 20, 2012
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Samuel L. Jackson confessed to exactly why he voted for Obama in 2008. “I voted for Barack because he was black. ‘Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people—because they look like them,” Jackson said in an interview with Ebony magazine. “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama's] message didn’t mean s–t to me.” African-Americans overwhelmingly [...]

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Black Voters and the GOP’s “White Knights”

February 15, 2012
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Despite two Lazarus-like resurrections in the Republican primaries, Rick Santorum couldn’t seem to raise the spirits of even the church choir at the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida last month. Santorum, though, received furious applause and a standing ovation at last week’s CPAC 2012 in Washington DC. He preached to the conservative choir [...]

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“Winning the Future” with F-Bombs

February 13, 2012
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“Hope and change. Yeah, you gotta hope things change,” Sarah Palin said Saturday in her CPAC keynote speech of President Obama. “He says he has a jobs plan to ‘Win the Future.’ WTF, I know,” she said. Palin spelled out “WTF.” Palin was repeating a line that she introduced last year to criticize Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address. “His [...]

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