Lifetime poll: Women believe Clinton & Palin made it more likely others will follow
Lifetime Television's Every Woman Counts campaign will report Wednesday morning that its latest polling shows most American women believe Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin this year made it more likely that other women will follow in their footsteps. The...AP: More voters wavered between McCain & Obama than thought
The Associated Press bucks conventional wisdom this morning with one of the findings from the latest AP/Yahoo News Poll. The bottom line: More people changed their minds than previously thought about whether to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama...Obama ran nearly 420,000 TV ads to McCain’s 270,000
Putting numbers to a trend that became very apparent as the 2008 presidential race played out, Nielsen says President-elect Barack Obama's campaign ran far more TV ads than that of his Republican opponent, John McCain. Obama's total: Nearly 420,000 airings...McCain says he’ll run for Senate again in 2010
John McCain just confirmed he does plan to run for re-election to the Senate in 2010. The 2008 Republican presidential nominee also said -- at his first post-election news conference -- that he does not think he'll again be a...Gallup: Confidence in Obama ‘remarkably consistent;’ now at 65%
Three weeks after his election as president, the public's confidence in Barack Obama remains "remarkably consistent" and "doesn't yet appear to be have been affected, positively or negatively, by news coverage of the president-elect's staff and Cabinet appointments, or by...Rev. Wright says election night was bittersweet after being made a ‘whipping boy’
On Deadline posts about the after-election thoughts of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who was the center of controversy during the presidential campaign because of things he said about America over the years. President-elect Barack Obama was a member...Del. governor chooses long-time Biden aide to be his Senate replacement
In a move that the (Wilmington) News Journal says is being interpreted as holding the seat for a run by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden in 2010, Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has chosen Ted Kaufman to replace Vice President-elect Joe...Did Obama break new ground on ’small donors?’ Yes and no
November 24th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Democrats, Money in politics, Presidential race, 2008, Republicans
President-elect Barack Obama received about the same percentage of his campaign funds from small donors as President Bush did in 2004, according to a study released today by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), USA TODAY's Fredreka Schouten reports. She...
Obama: ‘We’ll put people back to work’
November 22nd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Economy, Obama administration, Presidential race, 2008
Saying that his team is developing a plan to create 2.5 million jobs in two years, President-elect Barack Obama this morning pledges to "put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our...