Read more Obama 2008 stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6773/obama-2008.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:57:24 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73199/hey-barack-yes-you-still-can.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tag'Yes, we can" was the rallying cry of a game-changing campaign that swept Obama to victory on the shoulders of a grass-roots tidal wave one year ago—and President Obama would do well to remember Candidate Obama, writes Arianna Huffington in a lengthy look at David Plouffe's new campaign memoir....http://www.newser.com/story/73199/hey-barack-yes-you-still-can.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 10:24:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/53230/obamas-lobbyist-ban-haunting-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s campaign pledge to run a lobbyist-free White House is coming back to haunt him, writes Jonathan Martin in Politico. The problem is that there’s an army of Democratic specialists in hard-to-master policy areas who worked as lobbyists during the Bush administration—and they're all off-limits. “This town is...http://www.newser.com/story/53230/obamas-lobbyist-ban-haunting-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Mar 2009 8:15:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50191/obama-poster-artist-arrested.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShepard Fairey, the hot graphic designer and street artist behind the Obama "Hope" poster, was arrested yesterday on two outstanding warrants as he arrived at the opening for his new exhibition at a Boston museum, the Boston Globe reports. He's accused of tagging two Boston locations with graffiti, the police...http://www.newser.com/story/50191/obama-poster-artist-arrested.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 07 Feb 2009 10:29:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49893/its-the-small-change-we-should-believe-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 2008 election marked the death knell of post-Watergate public financing, Mark Schmitt writes for the American Prospect , but the raft of small donations that killed the system heralds a hopeful future. The public financing system was designed—and failed—to limit the influence of special interests: “Since the ability...http://www.newser.com/story/49893/its-the-small-change-we-should-believe-in.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Feb 2009 14:16:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49881/plouffe-snags-7-figure-book-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, has agreed to a 7-figure deal to write a book about last year's presidential election. The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory will be published by Viking next fall. Two publishing executives said that bidding for the...http://www.newser.com/story/49881/plouffe-snags-7-figure-book-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Feb 2009 10:05:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47952/nate-silver-win-the-cities-win-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's strength in cities won him the election, meaning he "might be America's first urban" president, statistics whiz Nate Silver writes in Esquire . Obama's "pragmatic, superior, hip, stubborn, multicultural" ways make him unmistakably urban, Silver writes, and America's changing demographics mean that urban voters matter now more than ever.http://www.newser.com/story/47952/nate-silver-win-the-cities-win-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Jan 2009 20:54:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43552/small-donors-didnt-drive-his-campaign-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe little guy didn't fill Barack Obama's campaign coffers after all, a new non-partisan study says. True, almost 50% of his donations were $200 or less, but many of those donors gave again. Only about a quarter of them stopped at two C-notes, a figure in the same range as...http://www.newser.com/story/43552/small-donors-didnt-drive-his-campaign-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 24 Nov 2008 21:12:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43129/finally-mac-wins-missouri.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMissouri, the last state up for grabs, looks to have gone Republican by less than a 1% margin, leaving John McCain with 173 electoral votes to Barack Obama’s 365, the Kansas City Star reports. There are still 3,000 uncounted provisional ballots, but McCain’s margin is large enough to declare...http://www.newser.com/story/43129/finally-mac-wins-missouri.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Nov 2008 13:55:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42194/how-obama-won.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama succeeded in his bid for the presidency because he became the anti-Bush, Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker . Campaign advisers agreed early on to keep it simple: own the economy and emphasize bringing change to Washington. Little did they know how well the financial crisis and John...http://www.newser.com/story/42194/how-obama-won.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Nov 2008 16:23:01 CST