A serious Obama campaign also produced odd moments

It wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama himself considered the idea of a President Obama to be "hooey."

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Obama official confident as voting gets under way

Barack Obama's campaign manager is urging voters to be patient with the balloting process, saying participation in the process is vital if people want change in America.

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Obama: Public Finance System 'Creaky'

The nation's system of public financing for presidential elections is "creaky" and needs to be updated, Sen. Barack Obama said Friday, offering another possible argument for not accepting taxpayer dollars to pay for his presidential campaign.

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Ignoring criticism - namely from Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid - that intra-party targeting was ineffective, Barack Obama's campaign arm is expanding its health care ad buy into the districts of key conservative House Democrats.

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Dear Mr. President-elect, please take me off your spam list.

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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn interviewed for the first time since the election of Obama. This interview should give viewers a better understanding of what the Weather Underground was about.

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Social networking websites are not the only places where posting comments could get you fired and Adam Smith, a journalist for the Birmingham mail learnt it the hard way.

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Obama Seeks Comfortable Margin in Colorado

There is little indication that McCain will be able to make a comeback in the state of Colorado. Polling averages have Obama up by at least six percent in the state, with some recent individual polls showing a double-digit lead.

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Is something rotten in the state of public financing for presidential campaigns?

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The Obama campaign has been building, tweaking and tinkering with its technology and organizational infrastructure since it kicked off in February 2007, and today has most sophisticated organizing apparatus of any presidential campaign in history.

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Before Joe Biden's interview with Ms West that cause the Obama campaign to ban that TV station for questions they thought were out of line, Senator Biden had a run-in of very tough questions again (this time when Barack Obama was in Hawaii with his grandmother).

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A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state election officials. In fact, Election Day for voters of all political stripes remains Nov. 4.

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Lawyers who supervise voting rights are Obama donors.

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The Project for Excellence in Journalism looks at the coverage of the two presidential candidates since the conventions and concludes "The media coverage of the race for president has not so much cast Barack Obama in a favorable light as it has portrayed John McCain in a substant …

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St. Louis and Missouri Democrat sheriffs and top prosecutors are planning to go after anyone who makes "false" statements against Obama during his campaign. This is a Stalinist tactic, pure and simple. Any one who is believes in the first amendment should be angry about this.

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"Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure."

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"Senator Barack Obama raised more money in August than any presidential candidate has ever recorded in a one-month period, with his campaign disclosing on Sunday that it collected $66 million and drew 500,000 first-time donors to his candidacy. ....

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According to the most recent polls (Gallup, CBS, USA Today etc.) Senator McCain has pulled out in front of Senator Obama. But as everything else in this campaign nothing is what it appears to be.

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Apparently unaware of the 1st amendment, the former constitutional law lecturer is seeking to have the government silence speech with which he disagrees.

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...people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms.

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If you're one of those political junkies who can hardly bear the anxiety of waiting for Barack Obama to choose his vice presidential running mate, think of how David Wade and Chris Mather feel.

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Pamela Geller has been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and she published the results of her ongoing investigation.

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On July 25th the Barack Obama campaign announced the appointment of Mazen Asbahi to further their outreach efforts to Arab Americans and American Muslims. As a young and accomplished corporate attorney, Mazen was largely unknown to many in both communities.

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Consideration of Al Qaeda rantings by Kori Schake as a guide post for formulating strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan is a bad omen for what national security policies we may expect to be offered by a McCain Administration

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Obama's campaign said two men spoke by telephone Monday. It was their first conversation since the Democratic primary campaign ended with Obama defeating the former president's wife.

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Obama used humor at a town hall on tax policy today to paint his Republican rival as out of touch with middle-class concerns and as a flip-flopper on the matter of tax cuts.

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Barack Obama speaks to the staff at his campaign headquarters after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. He speaks for nearly 14 minutes.

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David Axelrod has managed to run the Obama campaign to near perfection.

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