Hillary Clinton is in Ohio right now, campaigning across the state before Ohio’s primaries on March 4. Ohio’s primaries will be especially important for the senator as she has lost the past eleven contests to her Democratic nomination rival, Barack Obama. The nomination race has turned ugly since entering the Midwest. Clinton has recently made […]

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By Kate Miller
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona, Washington and Texas. He’s seen it all.
John West, a fellow Seattle-ite, has traveled far and wide to volunteer for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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A year ago if anyone had told 53 year-old Deborah Lian of Shoreline, WA that she would be walking the streets of Austin today in support of Barack Obama, she would have laughed.
“I thought I’d vote for Hillary at first, but when I went to the Obama rally at Key Arena, and saw all the […]

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The quality of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plus disagreement with George W. Bush has propelled some gay Republicans to cross the partisan aisle in this election.
Noel Freeman, President of the Log Cabin Republicans chapter in Houston, is one of these people. And because of that he said he’ll be stepping down from his […]

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The candidates know it: the union vote is one of the most important voices to back a candidate. This is because of the sheer number of union members and because of the economic funding that they can offer a campaign.
With Ohio’s primaries coming up, this Tuesday, both Democratic candidates are eagerly trying to secure more […]

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By: Philip Pirwitz, Kate Miller, Laura J. Mansfield
AUSTIN- Michelle Obama spoke at the University of Texas Obama campaign headquarters late this afternoon to kick off a night of canvasing and phone-calling before a crowd of roughly one hundred.

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By Charles Cadwallader
AUSTIN - What does a petroleum engineer, a public relations executive, a media relations officer in the National Guard, a political science student at the University of Washington, and an assistant district attorney all have in common?
They are all volunteering in Texas for Obama.

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KILLEEN, TX- “We’re a lot different from Washington State,” said John Crutchfield, president of Killeen, Texas’ Chamber of Commerce.
We met Crutchfield on a whim, after driving through this mid-size, conservative town that encompasses military base Fort Hood. After a stop at the Chamber of Commerce, his secretary lead us into his office, which featured a […]

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AUSTIN- My head was spinning. This was Texas and this is what I heard: “Dennis Kucinich isn’t liberal enough for me.” What? In Texas? A state that practically threatened to sucede from the Union if President Bush lost the 2004 election, as one Austin local put it.
The words were from radio DJ Anne Preston, […]

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While waiting for actress Kate Walsh to arrive at the University of Texas Barack Obama campaign office, Max Kennedy encouraged volunteers and students to call Texas voters and ask them to vote and caucus for the Illinois Senator.
Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, even joined in on the effort:

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