Obama Nominally Ends Iraq War

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/politics/03prexy.html?_r=1&hp

The Antiwar Split in the Democratic Party

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/world/28prexy.html?_r=1&hp

Obama’s Address to Congress on Health Care

The complete video of President Obama’s address to Congress on health care is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1YNF9I25yU

Can Campaign Organizations be used for Governing?

This article talks about the difficulty that Obama has had in using his campaign organization, now known as “Organizing for America”, in the service of promoting his health care agenda.  See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/health/policy/15ground.html?_r=1&hp

Blue State Digital

Blue State Digital is the consulting firm that grew out of the Howard Dean’s campaign for the presidency in 2004.  Among its other clients, it was employed by presidential candidate Barack Obama to design, manage, and integrate www.mybarackobama.com into the Obama for America campaign organization.  For a brief description of the work that they did on the Obama campaign, see: http://www.bluestatedigital.com/casestudies/client/obama_for_america_2008/

Grassroots Protests Against Health Care Reform

Conservatives have begun well-coordinated local protests against members of Congress supporting President Obama’s proposed health care reform.  See:   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/politics/08townhall.html?_r=1&hp

A New Mode of Grassroots Organizing

In a new approach to grassroots organzing, Organizing for American (Obama’s post-campaign political organization) is encouraging citizens to “tweet” their Senators using Twitter.  See:  http://www.barackobama.com/twitter/tweetyoursenator/

Thanks to Matthew Newman of the University of Florida for this tip!

How Obama Became the Facebook President

Senator Obama used Facebook successfully during his campaign for President.  Here’s a short article about Chris Hughes, one of the Facebook founders who went to work for the Obama campaign: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html?scp=29&sq=%22social%20networks%22&st=cse