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An Obama campaign top priority: Chasing Colorado youth vote

By | 04.03.12 | 5:30 am

BOULDER– National leaders of the Obama reelection campaign recently told students gathered on the University of Colorado campus here that winning swing-state Colorado is among the highest priorities for the campaign and that youth voters are the linchpin in this year’s victory strategy.

Axelrod dismisses political and legal challenges to health care legislation

By | 03.23.10 | 11:23 am

In an interview with the News Hour’s Judy Woodroof, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod welcomed the ongoing political fight over health care legislation signed into law Tuesday morning. We’ll run on the benefits it brings, he said, and…

Boyles paints Obama ‘war with FOX’ as salvo in potential media takeover

By | 10.23.09 | 1:40 pm

On KHOW’s Peter Boyles Show Thursday, the talk radio host compared President Obama’s “War with FOX News” to Hugo Chavez’s takeover of Venezuelan media outlets. “This is the Authority of the United States going after a… news outlet,” Boyles said.…

Axelrod’s son, 22, named editor of Huffington Post’s new Denver site

By | 07.29.09 | 10:06 am

Ethan Axelrod, the 22-year-old son of top Obama adviser David Axelrod, started work Monday editing the Denver edition of the Huffington Post, The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports.

“I’ve been interested in journalism for a while,” Axelrod told Kurtz.…

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