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Though President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle still have two years left in the White House, their foundation has come up with a bold slogan for their next chapter: “Eight years is only the beginning.” When they leave on Jan. 20, 2017, Obama will be only 55 and his wife, who turned 51 on Jan. 17, will have just celebrated her 53rd birthday. Not that I ever doubted it, but the Chicago-based Barack Obama Foundation‘s revamped website, which went live Friday, makes it clear the Obamas intend to maintain a robust public presence in the decades to come. The...

The first mega-hit campaign video of the 2008 campaign, which portrayed Hillary Clinton in the role of George Orwell's Big Brother, was the work of a strategist at a consulting firm with ties to the Barack Obama campaign. The campaign of Clinton's chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination said last night it "had no knowledge and had nothing to do with the creation" of the video mash-up that took the Internet by storm beginning two weeks ago. The consulting company, Blue State Digital, which designed Obama's Web site, issued a statement last night saying it fired employee Philip de...

Blue State Digital was founded by four Howard Dean supporters: History of Blue State Digital In the final months of Howard Dean's Presidential Campaign in 2003-04, Jascha Franklin Hodge, Clay Johnson, Ben Self and Joe Rospars -- four principals of Dean's Internet Team -- conceived of Blue State Digital. As leaders of a campaign that made history for its innovative use of the Internet, the four wanted to continue developing best practices for online communications, fundraising, organizing, and technology. So, on March 5th, 2004, the four founded Blue State Digital. About two years later, Blue State Digital operates offices in...