The networks are now projecting that Barack Obama will win the state of New York.Full article: Obama Wins New York
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key members of their national security team today: nominating Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, selecting Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain as Secretary of Defense, nominating Eric Holder as Attorney General, nominating Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as Secretary ...
"The climate has made millions of Americans who haven't been involved in a political campaign ever in their lifetimes very active. We estimate that 70 percent of our grass-roots volunteers haven't worked in a campaign before. . . . We're somewhere just shy of 2 million volunteers, and we think ...
And above all, I will ask you join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand. – Barack Obama, Election Night 2008 The 2008 presidential ...
Right now, while volunteers work to Get Out The Vote in key states, thousands of grassroots supporters across the country are helping out from home by using our online voter contact tools to call voters.Our target today is to make 1,000,000 calls to voters in battleground states before the ...
In the months and years ahead, we're going to accomplish amazing things together. No president has ever had the support of such a powerful grassroots movement, and Barack and Joe will need you to continue fighting alongside them. But before we take the next step, we need ...
Alone among all other states, Nebraska and Maine use a tiered system for awarding electoral votes, in which a single elector is awarded based on votes within each Congressional district and two electors are awarded to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Yesterday, the Omaha World-Herald announced: For the ...
Polls in parts of Indiana and Kentucky have closed now, and some states in additional states will be closing soon (although anyone in line when polls close will be allowed to vote). You can check polling locations and hours in your own neighborhood at VoteForChange.com. Even if polls have ...
Last night, 60 Minutes aired the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle since Election Night. The 41 minute interview covers a wide range of topics, including the economy, the ailing automobile industry, the $700 billion bailout program, the personal adjustments the two have made in their ...
Remember Andy? Throughout the summer, we brought you stories from some of the Obama Organizing Fellows, volunteer organizers who spent six weeks working in states across the country in conjunction with grassroots leaders and campaign staff to help build the foundation of our general election campaign. Many of the Fellows, ...