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Podesta: Obama Given ‘Real Mandate For Change’
thinkprogress.org - 11/9/2008
Podesta: Obama Given ‘Real Mandate For Change’
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John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress (currently on leave to head the Obama transition), explained this morning on Fox News Sunday that President-Elect Barack Obama’s victory last week constituted a strong endorsement by the American people of a ...

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Al Gore, Colin Powell, Caroline Kennedy in Obama's Administration?
usnews.com - 11/12/2008
Al Gore, Colin Powell, Caroline Kennedy in Obama's Administration?
— usnews.com — An unofficial "flowchart" sees Colin Powell, Al Gore, and Howard Dean in top administration jobs. (more) Al Gore, Colin Powell, Caroline Kennedy in Obama's ...

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rawstory.com - 11/9/2008
GOP leader: Rebuild party based on 'sanctity of marriage'
— rawstory.com — The Republican brand is still alive and well, Rep. Mike Pence said on Fox News Sunday. When asked by Chris Wallace what "conservative solutions" the GOP would bring to their current minority-party status, Pence said social issues like "the sanctity of ... (more) GOP leader: Rebuild party based on 'sanctity of marriage'

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foxnews.com - 11/10/2008
Transcript: John Podesta on 'FNS' - FOX News Sunday | Chris Wallace
— foxnews.com — Sunday, November 09, 2008 The following is a partial transcript of the Nov. 9, 2008, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace": FOX NEWS SUNDAY HOST CHRIS WALLACE: I'm Chris Wallace and this is "Fox News Sunday." A moment for history, and now ... (more) Transcript: John Podesta on 'FNS' - FOX News Sunday | ...

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Poll Suggests That Americans Want GOP To Move Toward Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Since Election Day, the key argument between pundits and politicians on either side of the political divide has been over what point on the political spectrum Obama can, will, and should govern from, with progressives pointing out that the electorate has embraced many of their policy positions as mainstream, and the defeated GOP insisting that America remains a fundamentally "center-right" nation. ThinkProgress has a nice compilation video of how this argument played out on Fox News Sunday this morning, with John Podesta explaining that the electorate had rendered a mandate for ...

Poll Suggests That Americans Want GOP To Move Toward Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Since Election Day, the key argument between pundits and politicians on either side of the political divide has been over what point on the political spectrum Obama can, will, and should govern from, with progressives pointing out that the electorate has embraced many of their policy positions as mainstream, and the defeated GOP insisting that America remains a fundamentally "center-right" nation. ThinkProgress has a nice compilation video of how this argument played out on Fox News Sunday this morning, with John Podesta explaining that the electorate had rendered a mandate for ...

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Are You Better Off Than You Were Eight Years Ago?
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 11/3/2008 — Our guest blogger is Adam Jentleson, the Communications and Outreach Director for the Hyde Park Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In 1980, Ronald Reagan famously asked America, “Are you better off than you were four years ...
EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Announces He Will Not Be Joining New Obama Administration
thinkprogress.org 11/5/2008 — Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new transition team , which includes Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) President and CEO John Podesta as one of three co-chairs. The media have floated the possibility that Podesta ...
Blueprint for change from our new Corporatist overlords — Corrente
No one should be mistaken. There has not been, nor will there ever be, a purely plebeian owned and operated society of significance.
Center for Switzerland Progress — Matthew Yglesias
FYI — I’m right now at JFK airport about to depart for a week-long trip to Switzerland courtesy of the Swiss-America Foundation during which time I’ll be learning important things about the Switzerland, the Swiss-American relationship, and of course how to implement ...
Savage on CAP — Matthew Yglesias
Charlie Savage, fresh from investigated the abuses of power at the heart of the Bush administration, takes a gander at John Podesta and the Center for American Progress. This isn’t the main point of the piece, but I did want to emphasize one thing: With Democrats back in control of ...
Thursday reading: The Chicago three — Jonathan Martin's Blog
    Mr. Axelrod comes to Washington. TNR makes a comprehensive list of the 30 biggest players in Obama's Washington. Michael Crowley explains the underappreciated influence of John Podesta -- a good friend of Rahm -- and the Center for American Progress on ...
Amanda Carpenter: About the Youth Vote — Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog
I'm preparing for a panel at the Center for American Progress (yes, that lefty think tank) about the youth vote and thought I'd share some of the information I'm gathering.Yes, the youth vote DID help Obama win. But,...
EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Announces He Will Not Be Joining New Obama Administration — The Hollywood Liberal
EXCLUSIVE: Podesta Announces He Will Not Be Joining New Obama Administration Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new transition team, which includes Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) President and CEO John Podesta as one of three co-chairs. The media have floated ...
Podesta staying outside — Ben Smith's Blog
John Podesta's Center for American Progress house blog, Think Progress, scoops the internal memo from Obama's transition chief: I am honored to have been asked to help organize the President-elect’s transition to a new government. For this purpose, I am taking a temporary leave of ...
John Podesta Rules Out Joining Obama Administration — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new transition team, which includes Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) President and CEO John Podesta as one of three co-chairs. The media have floated the possibility that Podesta might serve in various roles in the Obama ...
John Podesta Rules Out Joining Obama Administration — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new transition team, which includes Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) President and CEO John Podesta as one of three co-chairs. The media have floated the possibility that Podesta might serve in various roles in the Obama ...
Podesta won't take job in Obama White House — Politico Live's Blogs
Speculation surrounding a possible spot for John Podesta in the White House reached such a pitch that the Center for American Progress president and CEO sent an e-mail to CAP staffers today putting the rumor to bed. "I am honored to have been asked to help organize the ...
Podesta: Not Joining New Admin — The Atlantic Politics Channel
Obama transition co-chief John Podesta will not be joining the new administration, according to an internal Center for American Progress e-mail obtained by the intrepid journalists at the Center for American Progress: I am honored to have been asked to help organize the President-elect's ...
Reynolds’ Rant — Wonk Room
Our guest bloggers are Robert Gordon and James Kvaal , senior fellows at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Alan Reynolds accuses us of being lawyers , not economists. We are guilty as charged. But the rest of Reynolds’ rant is ...