Sentences with phrase «obama built his campaign»

(CNN)-- In the latest installment of CNN = Politics Daily, Barack Obama built his campaign on «change» - change in Washington, change in the way candidates run a presidential campaign, and change in the nation's history when he is sworn as the first African - American president.

Not exact matches

The social media team behind Barack Obama's presidential campaign built a popular social network of their own, and Facebook's star was rising in the political sphere.

The use of «new media» from friend building on Friendster to the seemingly simple text message proved to be a powerhouse for the campaign, as it extended the concept of «Team Obama» far beyond campaign headquarters literally into the hands of millions of Americans who voted and vocalized with their typing fingers.

Obama's success in building small money into big campaign cash may have rewritten the playbook for fundraising.

Great platforms have been built on new power: The Trump and Obama campaigns; #MeToo; #NeverAgain.

He helped launch 270 Strategies after serving most recently as the National Field Director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama, where he had primary responsibility for building a nationwide army of staff and volunteer organizers.

Jeremy helped to build a people - powered election campaign based on strong volunteer organizing that propelled Barack Obama back to the White House.

Obama's 2012 re-election campaign used the information to build what it called a «targeted sharing» tool.

But if the Democratic Party and the Obama reelection campaign think that somehow this appointment will build on and expand past accomplishments with religious voters, I'm more than dubious.

Of course he did: President Obama campaigned for office promising to heal our divisions and build bridges across our cultural divides.

To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the Let's Move campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

«There is now what I would call a nano - second reaction mechanism that has been built into the Obama campaign.

Now we get to see if Mitt Romney can actually build a national campaign to compete with the Obama grassroots...

To write those fundraising and motivational messages, the Obama campaign built up a cadre of skilled experts.

The Obama campaign's email strategy, and like so much else the campaign did online, built on the experience of previous political campaigns and nonprofit advocacy groups, relying on incremental improvements over past practice.

But Romney will just have to grind his teeth and grind his rivals down, week after week, state after state, driving away independent and alienating party activists simply by not being as conservative as they are, while President Obama and his people built his re-election campaign and prepares for the final showdown in the fall.

note: the same way the 2008 Obama campaign used the promise of early news of his V.P. announcement to build a text - message list].

After 2008, Republican Party leaders came to the conclusion that the drawn - out Obama - Clinton primary contest was actually an advantage for the Democratic Party, giving their candidates more exposure, battle - testing them, forcing them to built their campaigns across the country.

... they could build on technology, experience and personal networks built through the Sanders campaign, Black Lives Matter, pipeline protests, Occupy Wall Street, President Obama's two presidential campaigns and more.

Obama last week uttered the following (now inflammatory) words at a speech at a campaign rally in Roanoke, Virginia: «If you've got a business, you didn't build that.

The Obama campaign was no exception, but to a great extent, it didn't NEED the political blogs — because it was building its own independent base of zealous supporters.

Second, the Obama campaign could get away with sending a ridiculously high volume of messages in both 2008 and 2012, in part because people knew that they were all building toward election day.

Obama's 2008 campaign remains the prime example, but many other groups on all parts of the political spectrum are building up grassroots donor bases with an eye toward repeating his success on behalf of their own issues.

I argued the other day that four million donors, most of whom have given small amounts apiece, built the foundation for a powerful ground game that the campaign hopes will push Obama over the top.

With a team in place and technology under development, the Obama campaign wasted no time in building their most important resource: the list of volunteers who would work to elect the Illinois senator president.

The top presidential campaigns all amassed much - chronicled lists of hundreds of thousands of «friends» on MySpace and Facebook, and the Obama and McCain campaigns also invested in custom social networks for supporters early on (MyBarackObama has built to hundreds of thousands of members, while McCain's equivalent never hit critical mass and died when his overall campaign first imploded in the middle of 2007).

But Brown aides also used Google spreadsheets and forms to collect information from volunteers and supporters, essentially using the search engine's products to create their own version of what Obama's campaign team built for themselves during the 2008 election cycle.

Building on experience gleaned from the inevitable secondment to the Obama campaign, he was poached by Miliband, for whom he successfully recruited young Labour supporters, and bloggers, to the cause.

With Obama campaign staff reporting a «ridiculously» high Return On Investment for list - building search ads and Google giving Grants to nonprofit advocacy groups like a crack dealer handing out freebies in a new territory (and for much the same reason?)

By comparison, fewer than half of Obama's donors have maxed out, in part reflecting his campaign's success at building a broad base of online supporters who are giving less individually but more in the aggregate.

Announcing his presidential campaign in 2007, Obama spoke about «building that more perfect union'through reforming healthcare and education, combating poverty and caring for the environment.

Obama's team carefully constructed of a long - term engagement campaign built on a base of repeat small - dollar donors who could also fund its TV advertising.

Perez and Ellison offered nearly identical campaign platforms, with both saying they planned to work to build local and state parties rather than focus on the presidency, as the party did during the Obama years.

Now we get to see if Mitt Romney can actually build a national campaign to compete with the Obama grassroots reelection machine.

In the email, Teachout asked supporters to sign a petition — a classic list - building exercise for campaigns and advocacy groups — to push Obama in nominating a candidate for the court who overturn the ruling.

While Rospars helped launch Blue State Digital in 2004 after working with Howard Dean's presidential campaign, it wasn't until he helped lead Obama to victory in 2008 that the firm began building a large client base well outside politics, attracting such customers as the Green Bay Packers, AT&T and HBO, as well as nonprofits and cultural institutions, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $ 1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building...

But the Obama campaign — which was building its own fund - raising behemoth, even at the expense of the candidate's earlier pledge to accept public financing and the spending cap that came with it — didn't want outside interference.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

As that primary battle has raged, Mr. Obama's team has been building a state - of - the - art national campaign, reconnecting with the millions of donors and supporters who helped him to victory four years ago.

Clinton is building a campaign juggernaut on a scale beyond that of any other Democratic or Republican campaign, harnessing the data analytics reshaping modern politics and appropriating the personalized organizing techniques Barack Obama used to defeat her in the 2008 Iowa caucuses.

The Oneida Indian Nation and its «Change the Mascot» campaign scored a big victory this month when the Obama administration said it would not allow the Washington Redskins to build a new stadium on federal land at the site of the existing RFK Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C.

The Obama campaign gave resources to many vendors — most notably Blue State Digital and Voter Activation Network (now NGP - VAN)-- which helped them build capacity.

In his campaign speech, Obama went on to say: «If you've got a business, you didn't build that.

In addition to supporting the building of a southern border wall that has been a defining characteristic of the Trump presidential campaign, it also vehemently opposes President Obama's executive actions, referring to them as «executive amnesties,» and calls for a Republican president to rescind them.

And, as I wrote after President Obama's State of the Union message, there is, to my mind, a way to build a campaign for progress that aims to reclaim the American political discourse from polarizing, paralyzing edges.

They said this less because they see Trump moderating his stances and more because many of the targets set by Obama, and built on in Clinton campaign pledges, were based on shifts in energy use that are largely being driven by market forces or longstanding environmental laws that are relatively immune to the influence of any particular occupant of the White House.

Mr. Obama's aides are planning those steps in conjunction with a campaign to build public support and head off political opposition in a way the administration did not the last time around.

WASHINGTON — President Obama made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his second Inaugural Address, setting in motion what Democrats say will be a deliberately paced but aggressive campaign built around the use of his executive powers to sidestep Congressional opposition.

Obama entered the oval office upon a pedestal of impossible expectations — one he helped built himself during the 2008 campaign.