Outside Groups Aid Obama, Critic of Their Influence
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Despite denunciations of special-interest money, Senator Barack Obama is nonetheless benefiting from millions being spent outside campaign finance rules.
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Imagine you come up with a name for a new issue-advocacy group, one you think will send a powerful message to lawmakers that they need to remain accountable to the people who elected them. Something like, say, "They Work for Us."
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Just days into his campaign, Barack Obama is pulling in the crowds. But even political rock stars donât always hit the right note.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa  - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was buoyed on Tuesday by some good news in an Iowa opinion poll but warned his backers they need to show up and vote this week if they want him to win.
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Democrat Barack Obama has stepped up criticism of front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, sending Iowans a mailing noting that he opposed a measure that critics warn could lead to war with Iran and was supported by Clinton.
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Candidates for the White House now have yet another potentially influential bloc of voters to court, with the founding of a political interest group for grandpas and grandmas.
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CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 20 -- Three months ago, beauty shop owner Shanaya Hammond was a somewhat reluctant supporter of Sen. Barack Obama. A campaign aide persuaded her to put two Obama posters in the window of her Passion Slice salon and she planned to vote for him, but, she allowed, "I won't be mad...
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Interest groups that can urge the public to vote for or against candidates have spent at least &#36;25 million on the presidential race since Labor Day, with John Kerry's supporters outspending Bush's by more than 4-to-1.
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Senator Barack ObamaÂs move has created complications for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats.
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Barack Obama is airing state-specific ads featuring praise from elected officials, hoping the endorsements can help raise his profile in the race.
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Barack Obama said Friday that even if Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't think he has the right foreign policy credentials to be president, many of her husband's former advisers do and are supporting him instead of her.
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A leading US anti-war movement, MoveOn.org, opts to support Barack Obama for the presidency.
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Lobbying groups regularly get their way in Washington, but few have had as much impact in a short period as the Save Darfur Coalition, an organization that has been pressing for international intervention in war-torn Sudan.
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Sen. Barack Obama has won the backing of the United Food and Commercial Workers, a politically active union with significant membership in the upcoming Democratic battlegrounds.
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The candidates offered critiques of the opposition party, perhaps signaling a new dynamic in the presidential race.
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You may find a bunch of political operatives who will suggest that they always believed a black man named Barack Obama would blow away his competitors in Iowa and would destroy the inevitability of a former first lady who is a member of the U.S. Senate.
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president, two Democratic sources tell CNN.