Obama

February 16, 2012 - A by-the-numbers look at the proposed spending plan that President Obama released this week.

January 31, 2012 - Ads airing in Florida in the run-up to today's primary have focused on Gulf restoration, which hasn't been getting much attention from U.S. political leaders as shown by the GOP debates and the latest State of the Union address.

September 20, 2011 - By Lois Beckett and Marian Wang, ProPublica

September 16, 2011 - President Obama unveiled his $447 billion jobs plan last week during an address to a joint session of Congress, calling on members to pass the plan "right away."

November 10, 2008 - One of the biggest questions in the 2008 election was this: Will whites in the South vote not just for Democratic president, but for the first major African-American candidate in history?

November 6, 2008 - We called North Carolina for Obama yesterday, and you can read some of my first thoughts about what it meant for the state to not only go Democratic, but elect the first African-American president, here.