List of Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign staff members explained

List of persons holding prominent positions within the Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008.

According to an August 2008 statement by Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaign had "large-scale operations in 22 states, medium operations in many others, and small staffs in only a handful of states,"[1] with several thousand paid operatives on the ground between Obama staff and Democratic Party staff. That month, these numbers included "about 200 paid staffers working in Florida and more on the way, 90 in Michigan with plans to expand to 200 by August, at least 200 each eventually in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and 50 in Missouri with plans to expand to 150."[1]

Inner circle

The vice presidential search committee included:

Early advisors

An early 2007 article in the Chicago Sun-Times lists the following persons in Obama's White House team:[3]

Other key staff positions filled internally and from rival campaigns after the primaries included:[4]

Foreign policy

By July 2008 the Obama campaign had some 300 persons working on foreign policy, and organized along bureaucratic lines like a "miniature State Department."[5] Notable among these people are:

Former Hillary Clinton supporters:

Energy policy

Economic policy

Domestic policy

New media

Former members

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/20/obamas_paid_staff_dwarfing_mccains/ Obama's paid campaign staff dwarfing McCain's
  2. News: Obama running mate adviser quits . June 11, 2008 . BBC News . October 27, 2008.
  3. Lynn Sweet, Obama's campaign staff a work in progress, Chicago Sun-Times January 27, 2007
  4. http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/obama/obamaorggen.html Key People-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) General Election Edition
  5. Elizabeth Bumiller, A Cast of 300 advised Obama on Foreign Policy New York Times July 18, 2008
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20080717070240/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1823145,00.html Obama's conservative Mideast pick
  7. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18991.htm Alan Nairn interviewed by Amy Goodman
  8. http://www.hoover.org/research/iran/coordinators Hoover Institute's Iran Democracy Project
  9. News: Chief of firm involved in breach is Obama adviser - CNN.com . CNN . March 22, 2008 . May 8, 2010.
  10. Tim Shorrock, Hawks Behind the Dove: Who Makes Obama’s Foreign Policy?, The Progressive July 2008
  11. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/brzezinski-offers-support-for-obama/ Brzezinski Offers Support for Obama
  12. http://www.grist.org/feature/2008/05/06/grumet/index.html Jason and the carbonauts
  13. Web site: Archived copy . August 6, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080921084337/http://clinton6.nara.gov/2000/12/2000-12-21-holstein-jr-named-assistant-secretary-for-noaa.html . September 21, 2008 . dead .
  14. See "Obama VP Vetter Tied to Controversial Mortgage Crisis", https://web.archive.org/web/20080614162545/http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/06/obama-vp-vetter.html?loc=interstitialskip, USA Today, June 9, 2008
  15. Web site: Obama Aide Quits Under Fire for His Business Ties (Published 2008) . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230526091707/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/politics/12veep.html . 2023-05-26 . live .