Team player?

President Obama’s campaign-turned-advocacy group officially launched last week, with much ado about how the organization would be all about grassroots activism, changing Washington from outside the Beltway, and giving ordinary people a voice in politics. Yeah… about that, reports Politico: In its first days, Organizing for Action has closely affiliated itself with insider liberal organizations [...]

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Phase One is complete, muah ha ha ha ha ha.

We all knew that the campaign machinery Team Obama has built up over the past few years was going to continue to work to push President Obama’s agenda, but in what capacity they’d be doing so wasn’t one hundred percent clear. They can’t technically be a campaign anymore, and in the post-election lull, they moved [...]

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News team, assemble!

As we’re all painfully aware by now, President Obama might not be much for presiding — but when it comes to campaigning, the man knows his stuff. Barring some fiscal-cliff action, Team Obama has lain relatively dormant since the election, but they have hinted that they have every intention of putting their impressive machinery to [...]

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Meh.

In the run-up to his 2009 inauguration, President Obama’s inaugural committee made much ado about the fact that they would not be accepting any donations from lobbyists or corporations, nor individual donations in excess of $50,000 — and there was really no reason that they would have needed them, anyway. The Hopenchangey spirit carried over [...]

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Networking.

One thing that we’ve definitely learned in the aftermath of the election is that the expertise of the Obama campaign really wasn’t just a bunch of hype. Their get-out-the-vote and ground-game efforts, e-mail lists, persuasive messaging, social media campaigns, technological innovations, etcetera came together to formulate quite the formidable and cutting-edge operation — and it’s [...]

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Bedazzled.

Even considering that Team Obama raked in close to a billion dollars total for their 2012 campaign, $40 million for their celebrity designed-and-promoted line of supercool campaign merchandise is still not a completely insignificant haul, especially considering the glamorous attention that went with it. Via TIME: The president’s fourth-largest bundler, [Vogue editor in chief Anna] [...]

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You're just being modest.

There are any number of conclusions to be drawn from the outcome of Tuesday’s election (and how!), but among the biggest discussion points of the last two days has been about the indisputable superiority of the Democratic ground game and campaign machinery. Says Peter Hamby at CNN: Democrats showed decisively that their ground game — [...]

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Nobody panic.

For such an ostensibly confident, feelin’-good campaign, they certainly seem to be taking an awful lot of messaging precautions. In a conference call this afternoon, the Obama campaign offered some advice to supporters, lest tomorrow’s news cycle start bringing in evidence that things are going Mitt Romney’s way, via Politicker: “My warning, we need to [...]

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Bazinga.

Earlier this week, certain Team Obama members and loyalists insisted that Team Romney’s relatively late-in-the-game push into some new battlegrounds definitively means that Team R has at last figured out that they cannot win with the electoral map they originally planned, characterizing their movements as “desperate” and “flailing” to mark off some more territory. Obama [...]

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Expanding the map, flailing; tomato, tomahto.

The wave of post-debate momentum that has erased and even reversed the leads that President Obama once had in both national and swing-state battles is still going strong, and with a hefty bit more cash on hand than the Democratic camp and only six days left until the election, they’ve got plenty of spending left [...]

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"Of course" the binder controversy resonated with women. ...Er, did it, though?

Obviously, the Obama campaign is maintaining that the many odds are all still pointing in President Obama’s favor, and in New Hampshire over the weekend, senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett helped to propagate that message in an interview with MSNBC. Mika: It seemed like that [binders full of women] got a great response. …I think [...]

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Lolz.

Taking their all-too-familiar “maybe if we just keep saying it loudly and bullishly enough, people will be convinced that it’s actually true” strategy, David Axelrod proclaimed on CNN on Sunday that the president is focused on pushing his agenda for the next four years over denigrating Mitt Romney, and that while the race is close, [...]

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...Sure, if you say so.

To recap: Last week, Iowa’s major state newspaper the Des Moines Register snagged an interview with President Obama to take into their consideration in preparation for their forthcoming presidential endorsement, on the condition that it be kept off the record. After the editors publicly wondered why such an interview should be kept from the public, [...]

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Monies.

Earlier today, Team Romney (including Romney for President, Romney Victory, and the Republican National Committee) announced that, between October 1st and 17th, they raised a combined total of over $111 million, and still have about $169 million cash on hand — a pretty impressive haul no doubt aided by the general debate-watching public finally getting to [...]

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"It won't be pleasant." You don't say.

Ed already recapped the dustup between Team/President Obama and the editors of the Des Moines Register, among the more influential publications in the battleground state of Iowa (which the president also happens to be barnstorming during his campaign travels today), that finally resulted in campaign officials releasing a transcript of the phone interview to the [...]

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

There’s been plenty of speculatin’ about whether or not Team Obama is pulling away from North Carolina and reinvesting their precious resources in more viably attainable swing states, as it’s looking more and more like the time is nigh to cede the territory’s fifteen electoral votes to Team Romney. Allahpundit already took note of this [...]

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Yeah, just look at those beady little eyes of his.

Oh, honestly. Obama’s people are certainly putting out that message that Vice President Biden is “fired up and ready to go” for tonight’s debate, but clearly they felt the need to get in a few little preemptive jabs at his challenger Paul Ryan — could it be that they don’t have enough confidence in Biden’s [...]

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Heh.

Last night, President Obama tried to reassure his semi-panicked Democratic fellows that, despite his ghastly debate performance, “the fundamentals of this race haven’t changed” — which, actually, is kind of weirdly true. When I think “fundamentals,” I think unemployment, economic growth, federal budget, etcetera, all of which have remained mind-numbingly horrible during the president’s tenure. [...]

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Just win, baby.

Brand new from James O’Keefe and PV, the logical follow-up to his expose of how easy it is to request someone else’s ballot: Why not just request your own, but in different states? And why not casually mention your intentions to your friendly neighborhood OFA canvasser and see if they try to talk you out [...]

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Honey badger don't care.

Andrea Mitchell’s amazed reaction, after Sununu confirms that, why yes, he did indeed intend to call the president of the United States “lazy,” without skipping a beat… is kind of priceless. JOHN SUNUNU: What people saw last night was a president that revealed his incompetence, how lazy and detached he is, and how he has [...]

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October fun.

After that rather embarrassing performance last night, Team Obama is changing tack at warp speed. They’ve certainly got their work cut out for them, considering what will be the most effective ways to tear down Mitt Romney and put President Obama back on top. They’re still using the recent “either Romney must raise taxes on [...]

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I'm so confused.

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When "progressive" gets regressive.

Not that their fake war on wimmenses!-crusade ever really had a real shred of credibility, mind you, but at least things like “reproductive rights” and “the Lilly Ledbetter Act” kinda’, sorta’ sound like attempts at seriousness, even if it’s only deceptively so. Last week, the Obama campaign unveiled a range of graphically attractive but intellectually [...]

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