Obama Cancels Events to Visit Sick Grandmother in Hawaii

Barack Obama’s campaign just announced that he is canceling events in Des Moines and Madison scheduled for Thursday in order to be with his ailing grandmother.

He will go to Indianapolis Thursday and then leave for Hawaii in the early afternoon. He will be back on the trail Saturday. On the campaign plane, spokesman Read More

Gibbs: Patti Solis Doyle Will Help Obama Court Latinos

Patti Solis Doyle is expected to do some surrogate work for the Obama campaign to help woo Latino voters, according to the campaign’s communications director, Robert Gibbs.

At the end of today’s Obama conference call, Gibbs responded to a question from a Latino reporter who asked what surrogates the campaign might roll out in Read More

Obama Camp Piles on Ickes for Writing Off N.C.

“I got the disturbing news this morning that Senator Clinton is probably going to write off North Carolina,” said Representative G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina.

He was referring to a quote by Clinton campaign senior adviser Harold Ickes that appeared in the New York Times today, which the Obama campaign responded to on a Read More

The Spokesman Who Couldn't Fly

Towards the end a Hillary Clinton stump speech at a gleaming white hall in Ottumwa, Iowa last month, the campaign’s communications director, Howard Wolfson, marched in out of the cold wearing a white sweater, gray sweatpants and unlaced brown work boots. Disheveled and unshaven, Mr. Wolfson possessed the feral look of someone who had spent Read More

Obama HQ: Welcome to the Jungle

As you might expect, Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, which I visited on Thursday and Friday and wrote about for this week’s paper, is a place brimming with youthful enthusiasm. It looks like a college dorm. Cookies and jars of candy sit on the desks, ball caps rest on computers, and the door to the Read More