Obama Wins: How Chicago's Data-Driven Campaign Triumphed. In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who powered Barack Obama’s campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49. The women were far and away the single demographic group most likely to hand over cash, for a chance to dine in Hollywood with Clooney — and Obama. So as they did with all the other data collected, stored and analyzed in the two-year drive for re-election, Obama’s top campaign aides decided to put this insight to use.
They sought out an East Coast celebrity who had similar appeal among the same demographic, aiming to replicate the millions of dollars produced by the Clooney contest. “We were blessed with an overflowing menu of options, but we chose Sarah Jessica Parker,” explains a senior campaign adviser. And so the next Dinner with Barack contest was born: a chance to eat at Parker’s West Village brownstone. (MORE: Four More Years: Obama Wins Re-election) (Election 2012: Photos From the Finish Line)
Barack Obama Speech At 2012 Democratic National Convention: Perseverance Replaces Change. CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- There were no fireworks on Thursday night -- at least not of the literal variety. There were no Greek columns or open-air stadiums surrounded by majestic mountains. There were no calls for a new type of politics or for a turning of the page on the George W. Bush administration. There was some glitz, some Hollywood stars and immaculate stagecraft.
But the idea that a presidential candidate could himself become the embodiment of change was replaced with something less lofty but, perhaps, just as politically poignant. When President Barack Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention here at 10:25 p.m., both he and the crowd were animated by protectiveness for what's been accomplished so far in his presidency and hope to build on those achievements. "I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention," Obama said. "America," Obama offered at the conclusion of his speech, "I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Bill Clinton Speech Asks Undecided Voters To Hang On, Give Obama Another Chance. Bill Clinton speaks at the 2012 DNC (C-SPAN) - Full Speech. DNC 2012: Bill Clinton's effective Obama embrace. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hurricane Bill made landfall here Wednesday night.
Former President Clinton’s stemwinder at the Time Warner Cable Arena ran longer than his infamous 1988 convention keynote speech as he urged voters to give President Barack Obama a second chance in office. Continue Reading Clinton's full DNC speech In classic Clinton style, the 48-minute nominating address frequently digressed from the script, the teleprompter freezing as the 42nd president ticked off statistics and improvised lines about Paul Ryan’s “brass” and the signal his wife and Obama have sent about avoiding politics as a “blood sport.”
(Also on POLITIC: Clinton: 'Of course' country better off now) In his speech, Clinton was clearly, if indulgently, enjoying himself in a way that Obama rarely seems to, as he prosecuted the case on the 44th president’s behalf in less than an hour better than the Oval Office occupant has been able to over the past two years The crowd went wild repeatedly. Bill Clinton says Democratic presidents top Republican presidents in job creation. Are Democratic presidents better than Republican presidents at job creation? Former President Bill Clinton said so -- forcefully -- in his speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. "Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24," Clinton said. "In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 (million).
" In 2010, we checked a similar claim from Rep. Clinton’s claim at the convention was worded differently, so we quickly re-crunched the numbers based on his specifications. Let’s cut to the chase. Republicans Richard Nixon: Increase of 7.1 million jobs Gerald Ford: Increase of 1.3 million jobs Ronald Reagan: Increase of 14.7 million jobs George H.W. Total: Increase of 23.9 million jobs under Republican presidents Democrats John F. Total: Increase of 42.3 million jobs. So Clinton is right. This does not include government jobs. Michelle Obama Speech: Being President 'Reveals Who You Are'
Michelle Obama Full Speech. Call out the lies right in your headlines - The Plum Line. Posted at 02:13 PM ET, 08/29/2012 Aug 29, 2012 06:13 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost This doesn’t happen every day, but good for the Los Angeles Times for calling out the ubiquitous falsehood about Obama supposedly waiving welfare reform’s work requirement right in its headline: Rick Santorum repeats inaccurate welfare attack on Obama As Kevin Drum says: “it’s about time reporters and copy editors started putting this stuff front and center.” The lie debunked here, of course, is central to Mitt Romney’s campaign; it is airing in ads in multiple swing states that are reportedly backed by heavy buys, and Romney and his surrogates have been repeating it in one forum after another for weeks on end.
I didn’t expect this, but the epic dishonesty of Romney’s campaign is finally prompting something of a debate among media types about whether what we’re seeing here is unprecedented — and how to appropriately respond to it. There seems to be a bit of a strain of media defeatism settling in about this. Obama's top 5 contributors are the University of California, Microsoft, Google, DLA Piper and Harvard University. Romney's top 5 contributors are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Credit Suisse. : politics.