2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign
Muckety news stories featuring 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign
It's rare that we deliberately draw a congested map, but today the size of the crowd is the point.
July 18, 2011
With just 16 days left in the presidential campaign, retired Gen. Colin Powell today announced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
October 19, 2008
Patti Solis Doyle today became the first high-profile member of Hillary Clinton's organization to take an official role in Barack Obama's campaign.
June 16, 2008
To a degree unlike any other city in America, Chicago is identified with its black elite. Locals joke that you can find more black millionaires per square foot at the Chicago Urban League's annual dinner than you can anywhere in the world.
May 28, 2008
Barack Obama's education in the bare-knuckled and often tribal politics of Chicago says much about his ambition, as well as his ability to cultivate powerful mentors.
May 23, 2008
As Illinois Sen. Barack Obama closes in on the Democratic nomination for president, Muckety has compiled a list of the 100 most networked players in Chicago as an early indicator of the ties that might bind a President Obama.
May 22, 2008
Willie Sutton robbed banks because that's where the money is. Political candidates go hat in hand to hedge fund managers because that's where even more money is.
April 23, 2008
In politics, enemies need to be watched. However, it's friends who can really cause trouble.
January 30, 2008
2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign past relationships:
2008 Barack Obama VP search team - committee
2008 Obama-Biden transition team - successor
Naomi D. Aberly - fundraiser
Wendy M. Abrams - fundraiser
Gerald Acker - fundraiser
ACORN Political Action Committee - endorsed
Charles C. Adams Jr. - fundraiser
David I. Adelman - fundraiser
Devorah Adler - research director
African American Religious Leadership Committee - advisory group
Peter Agre - science adviser
Lee S. Ainslie III - contributor
Lishan Aklog - fundraiser
AKP&D Message and Media - consultants
Mark L. Alderman - fundraiser
Mark C. Alexander - New Jersey state director, senior policy director
Karim Alibhai - fundraiser
Pinney L. Allen - fundraiser
Kenneth R. Alleyne - fundraiser
Elizabeth Alter - fundraiser
Michael J. Alter Jr. - fundraiser
Jeremy Alters - fundraiser
Jeff Anderson - fundraiser
Nola Anderson - fundraiser
Jennifer Aniston - supporter
Rodney Armstead - fundraiser
John D. Arnold - fundraiser
Rosanna Arquette - supporter
Eduardo Arriola - fundraiser
J. Ricky Arriola - fundraiser
Gayle Perkins Atkins - fundraiser
Jean-Philippe Austin - fundraiser
Nicole Avant - fundraiser
David Axelrod - chief political strategist
Sandra Bainum - fundraiser
Stewart W. Bainum Jr. - fundraiser
Alfredo J. Balsera - fundraiser
Hannah Banks - fundraiser
Tyra Banks - supporter
Preeta Bansal - fundraiser
Barack Obama documentary - subject
Barack Obama Facebook page - campaign site
Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008 - fundraiser
Barack Obama fund-raising roundtable, 7/2/2008 - fundraiser
Frank Barbaro - fundraiser
Rob Cushman Barber - fundraiser
Paul Bardacke - fundraiser
Jim Bartimus - fundraiser
Matthew W. Barzun - fundraiser, national finance committee member
Sheldon Baskin - fundraiser
Denise Bauer - fundraiser
Michael Bauer - fundraiser
Robert F. Bauer - counsel
Jatinder Bedi - fundraiser
Doni Belau - fundraiser
Emmett Beliveau - aide
Severin Beliveau - fundraiser
J. Edward Bell - fundraiser
Lawrence Bender - fundraiser
Benenson Strategy Group - political consultant
Daniel Berger - fundraiser
Josh Berger - fundraiser
Mitchell W. Berger - fundraiser
Alison Berke - fundraiser
Barry H. Berke - fundraiser
Allan Berliant - fundraiser
Jennie Berliant - fundraiser
Kenneth Berlin - fundraiser
Jeffrey G. Berman - national director of delegate operations
Andrea E. Bernstein - fundraiser
Tom A. Bernstein - fundraiser
Halle Berry - supporter
Donald S. Beyer Jr. - fundraiser
Megan Beyer - fundraiser
Joseph R. Biden Jr. - vice presidential candidate
Edward Bilich - fundraiser
Richard Binder - fundraiser
Lea Black - fundraiser
Ronald E. Blaylock - fundraiser
Jeffrey L. Bleich - fundraiser
Patricia Jones Blessman - fundraiser
Leonore Blitz - fundraiser
Steven R. Bloch - fundraiser
David W. Blood - London fundraiser co-chair
Neil G. Bluhm - fundraiser
David Blumenthal - adviser
Leslie F. Bond Jr. - fundraiser
Terri Bonoff - fundraiser
Francisco L. Borges - fundraiser
Steve Bough - fundraiser
Elise Boyan - fundraiser
William W. Bradley - supporter
Zach Braff - supporter
John O. Brennan - adviser & contributor
Kobi Brinson - fundraiser
Timothy M. Broas - fundraiser
James L. Brooks - supporter
Frank P. Brosens - fundraiser
Jackson Browne - supporter
Russell W. Budd - fundraiser
David Burd - fundraiser
Meaghan Burdick - director of direct marketing
David Burman - fundraiser
John E. Burris - fundraiser
William A. Burton - national press secretary
Peter L. Buttenweiser - fundraiser
Cassandra Q. Butts - adviser, transition director for personnel
Peter C.B. Bynoe - fundraiser
Judith I. Byrd - fundraiser
Owen Byrd - fundraiser
Joseph A. Calabrese - fundraiser
Michael A. Caplin - fundraiser
David L. Carden - fundraiser
Matthew Carlson - fundraiser
Lloyd Joseph Carmichael - fundraiser
Thomas Carnahan - fundraiser
Brad Carson - fundraiser
Eric Casher - fundraiser
Marty Castro - fundraiser
Catalist - client
Michael J. Cavanagh - fundraiser
Grace R. Cavnar - fundraiser
Robert L. Cavnar - fundraiser
Nadia Cavner - fundraiser
Lincoln D. Chafee - supporter
Hasan Chandoo - fundraiser
Anthony R. Chase - fundraiser
Cleveland Christophe - fundraiser
Marisa Chun - fundraiser
Citizens Services Inc. - get-out-vote contractor
Diana Shaw Clark - fundraiser
Frank M. Clark Jr. - fundraiser
Robert G. Clark - fundraiser
Charles A. Clarkson - fundraiser
Robert A. Clifford - fundraiser
George Clooney - supporter
Bonnie R. Cohen - fundraiser
Dick Cohen - fundraiser
Louis R. Cohen - fundraiser
Thomas A. Cole - fundraiser
Michael J. Coles - fundraiser
Art Collins - political strategist
Arthur R. Collins - political strategist
Wilbur O. Colom - fundraiser
Lester N. Coney - fundraiser
John M. Connors Jr. - fundraiser
Kevin J. Conway - fundraiser
Ami Copeland - deputy national finance director
Joseph W. Cotchett - fundraiser
Mark Cozzi - fundraiser
Gregory B. Craig - fundraiser
Carla Baird Crane - contributor
David G. Crane - contributor
Cindy Crawford - supporter
Robert Creamer - volunteer trainer
James Q. Crowe - fundraiser
James S. Crown - chief Illinois fundraiser
Paula Hannaway Crown - fundraiser
John Crumpler - fundraiser
John D. Cumming - fundraiser
Chet Edward Cunningham - national finance committee member
Stephanie A. Cutter - senior adviser
Richard J. Danzig - adviser, fundraiser
Michael Dardzinski - fundraiser
Tom Daschle - national co-chair
Judith M. Davenport - fundraiser
Larry David - supporter
Virginia Davies - fundraiser
Gordon J. Davis - fundraiser
Lisa E. Davis - fundraiser
Stephen J. Davis - fundraiser
F.K. Day - fundraiser
Robert De Niro - supporter
Jamie Denenberg - fundraiser
Henry F. DeSio Jr. - deputy COO
John M. Deutch - donor
Vincent Dimmock - fundraiser
James G. Dinan - fundraiser
Gregory Dingens - fundraiser
Ted Dintersmith - fundraiser
John Doggett - fundraiser
David Dolgen - fundraiser
Ellen Dolgen - fundraiser
Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe - fundraiser
Kirk T. Dornbush - fundraiser
Justin Douglas - fundraiser
Patti Solis Doyle - VP chief of staff
Rebecca S. Draper - fundraiser
Joshua DuBois - director of religious affairs
Eugene J. Duffy - fundraiser
Anita B. Dunn - adviser
Maria Elena Durazo - national co-chair
Richard J. Durbin - national co-chair
Carolyn Dwyer - fundraiser
William C. Eacho III - fundraiser
Blair W. Effron - fundraiser
Cheryl Cohen Effron - fundraiser
Norman L. Eisen - fundraiser
Julie Nixon Eisenhower - supporter
Susan Eisenhower - supporter
Kelley Ellsworth - fundraiser
Ari Emanuel - fundraiser
John B. Emerson - fundraiser
Mark Erwin - fundraiser
Jodie Evans - fundraiser
Suzanne Faber - fundraiser
Nancy Farese - fundraiser
Jonathan E. Favreau - speechwriter
Mark Feierstien - fundraiser
Joseph M. Fernandez - fundraiser
Nadja Fidelia - fundraiser
David I. Fisher - fundraiser
Marianna Fisher - fundraiser
Peter Fisher - fundraiser
Richard B. Fizdale - fundraiser
Christine Forester - fundraiser
Will Forte - supporter
Mayhill Fowler - contributor
Alan Fox - fundraiser
Daveen Fox - fundraiser
Jamie Foxx - supporter
Brian L. Frank - fundraiser
Clark French - fundraiser
David Friedman - fundraiser
Rob Friedman - fundraiser
Louis W. Frillman - fundraiser
Michael B.G. Froman - fundraiser
Ann M. Fudge - fundraiser
Carol Fulp - fundraiser
Laurie S. Fulton - fundraiser
Jason L. Furman - economic policy director
Jay M. Furman - fundraiser
David Gail - fundraiser
Mark T. Gallogly - fundraiser
Pete Garcia - fundraiser
Roland Garcia - fundraiser
Barbara Garrett - fundraiser
Patrick H. Gaspard - national political director
Judy Gaynor - fundraiser
Malcolm M. Gaynor - fundraiser
Tom Gearen - fundraiser
David Geffen - fundraiser
Katherine M. Gehl - fundraiser
Richard Gere - supporter
Alexi Giannoulias - fundraiser
Robert L. Gibbs - senior strategist, spokesman
Mark Gilbert - fundraiser
Peter M. Gilhuly - fundraiser
Donald H. Gips - fundraiser
Jon Glickman - fundraiser
Steven M. Gluckstern - fundraiser
GMMB - consultants
Douglas E. Goldman - fundraiser
Jill Goldman - fundraiser
Fred Goldring - fundraiser
Barry Goodman - fundraiser
Mark D. Goodman - fundraiser
Austan D. Goolsbee - adviser
Gabe Gore - fundraiser
Mark P. Gorenberg - fundraiser, national finance committee member
John J. Gorman - fundraiser
Howard L. Gottlieb - fundraiser
Linda Gottlieb - fundraiser
Barbara Gould - fundraiser
David J. Grain - fundraiser
Nancy Grant - fundraiser
Jonathan Scott Gration - adviser
De Gray - fundraiser
Paul Gray - fundraiser
Christine O. Gregoire - supporter
John A. Griffin - contributor
Kenneth C. Griffin - fundraiser
Larry Grisolano - director of paid media & opinion research
Howard W. Gutman - fundraiser
Joseph D. Gutman - fundraiser
Edward Haddock - fundraiser
Lilibet Hagel - supporter
Douglas D. Haloftis - fundraiser
Daniel Halpern - fundraiser
Pam Hamamoto - fundraiser
Wahid Hamid - fundraiser
Lee H. Hamilton - supporter
Cathy Hampton - fundraiser
Jennifer Haro - fundraiser
Hill Harper - fundraiser
Scott Blake Harris - fundraiser
Paul Harstad - pollster
Mickey Hart - supporter
Jane D. Hartley - fundraiser
William R. Harvey - fundraiser
Lutfi Hassan - fundraiser
Karen Heidelberg - fundraiser
Gregory D. Helmer - fundraiser
Ann Colin Herbst - fundraiser
Peter Herbst - fundraiser
Victor J. Herlinsky Jr. - fundraiser
Bruce A. Heyman - fundraiser
Vicki Heyman - fundraiser
Douglas T. Hickey - fundraiser
Anne Higginbottom - contributor
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