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Obama to Gadhafi: Stop the Attacks or Face Military Action
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House to Consider Bill to Defund National Public Radio
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Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Rocked by Second Explosion in Quake's Aftermath
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Published: 10/6/10

Michelle Obama's Plea to Democrats: 'Don't Stay Home'

By Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily

With less than month until the election -- and early voting about to start in many states -- First Lady Michelle Obama finally jumped in the political fray on Wednesday, trying to fire up younger Democrats in a 12-minute conference call sponsored by the grassroots organizing arm of the Democratic National Committee. "Don't stay home," Mrs. Obama pleaded. Mrs. Obama hosted the political pep talk for the DNC's Organizing for America division, the unit created to absorb the Obama for America presidential campaign. It marked the first time Mrs. Obama has personally spoken out on behalf of ...

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Published: 06/17/10

DNC Launching Largest-Ever Midterm Voter Registration Drive

By Lynn Sweet - Politics Daily

The Democratic National Committee unveils on Thursday the largest midterm voter registration drive in the history of the party, hoping to build on the organizing success of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, which brought new voters to the polls and re-engaged drop-off voters. "What we learned in 2008 is when we expand the pool of voters we win," said a DNC strategy memo. Democrats face a tough history lesson: The party in power almost always loses seats in the midterms. That's why "we need to do more, because of the historical headwinds against us," a DNC official told me. Each ...

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Published: 11/17/09

Winning Health Care Ad Maker Eric Hurt's Creative Range

By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily

Organizing for America Tuesday announced the winner of the Health Reform Video Challenge contest the Democratic Party conducted to choose an ad that will focus attention on the health care debate before Congress. The president's message arm plans to air the winning selection nationally in the next few weeks to show voters "that our supporters' creativity and passion is more than a match for the slick ads and partisan spin doctors on the other side." After screening nearly 1,000 submissions and winnowing to the best of 20 finalists, the judges at barackobama.com have chosen a short film titled ...

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Published: 10/21/09

Health Reform Drive Has Hill Phones Ringing Off the Hook

By David Sessions - Politics Daily

Capitol switchboards were a traffic jam Tuesday as Organizing for America, the political action group that grew out of President Obama's presidential campaign, completed a massive phone-call effort, Talking Points Memo reported Wednesday. The group had hoped for 100,000 calls to Congress in support of health care reform, but well over 200,000 calls were placed by the end of the day. Congressional staffers said the drive was the largest constituent feedback on health care they had ever received, and it was having an effect. One said her representative's office received 100 calls, all ...

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