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June 2, 2009
NEWSWEEK alumnus Richard Wolffe flags his juicy new book from the campaign trail: "Renegade: The Making of a President," with an excerpt at the DAILY BEAST. He recounts a secret meeting in Chicago with the president's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, at the height of the furor surrounding a series of sermons Wright delivered at Trinity United Church in Chicago:
Obama’s aides feared the worst from Wright’s return...
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2009
Samantha Tubman visited 48 states in the Union and criss-crossed Europe and the Middle East as a wrangler on Barack Obama's campaign plane. Now, she's putting her "ready for anything" attitude to work, joining White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers in making 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue "the people's house."
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2009
Though he was often the youngest person in the room, Yohannes Abraham rose through the ranks of the Obama campaign hierarchy to become Field Director of his native Virginia—a key tipping point state in the general election. After Obama's big win in the Old Dominion, Abraham is back in the beltway, working to make the president's legislative dreams a reality.
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2009
During the 2008 campaign, Jason Green followed in Barack Obama's footsteps—orchestrating a massive, in-house voter registration drive, not unlike the one the president ran in Chicago after leaving law school. His work may well have won Obama the previously red state of North Carolina. Green, also an Ivy League law grad, is working in the White House as one of Obama's deputy legal advisers.
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2009
When it comes to politics, Alex Lofton has the mind of a soldier: The Obama campaign "deployed" the Seattle native—who started as an intern in Chicago headquarters—around the country, to get out the vote. In Washington, he's joined the Democratic Party's effort to build on the successes of organizers like himself.
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2009
Marlon Marshall captained one of the most bitter confrontations in the Democratic primary—the Nevada caucuses. But when his candidate, Hillary Clinton, conceded defeat, he went straight to work for the Obama campaign. Now, he's taken on the best of both worlds, working as a go-between for Obama's White House and Clinton's State Department.
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by Lawrence Bobo onDecember 19, 2008
A campaign hall of fame and infamy -- a look at who's been good and who's been bad through the primaries.
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by Dayo Olopade onMarch 21, 2008
Long before anyone in America had a clue as to who or what a superdelegate was, Myesha Ward was hot on their trail. As delegate counter for the Obama campaign, the Howard-educated lawyer reeled in the support of countless Democratic officials, from the state to the federal level. Back in Washington, Ward is working to keep those lines of communication open.
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