David Plouffe has agreed to a seven-figure deal to write a book about last year’s presidential election. “The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory” will also detail the business lessons of a $1 billion start-up.
After meeting with his economic advisers about a strategy to right the economy, President-elect Barack Obama on Friday warned about the gravity of the situation.
Cuba’s communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America’s punitive trade and travel embargo.
President-elect Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for top administration posts, according to Democratic officials.
The following is a statement read by President-elect Barack Obama before his first press conference since Election Day.
Barack Obama’s former pastor complained Thursday that the media used him as a “weapon of mass destruction” in an attempt to derail Obama’s campaign for the presidency.
Even without the support of voters under 30, Barack Obama would still have won the 270 electoral votes he needed to become the next president, an analysis of the figures show.
The Bush administration is providing security clearances, working space and policy briefings to President-elect Barack Obama’s team.
President-elect Obama is the apparent winner in North Carolina, a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn’t voted for a Democrat in more than a generation.
Nothing quite like Russian missiles to stomp on a guy’s election buzz. Before Barack Obama even got up to savor victory, Russia threatened to station missiles alongside U.S.-ally Poland.