List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements, 2008

This is a list of prominent groups who formally endorsed or voiced support for Senator Barack Hussein Obama's presidential campaign during the Democratic Party primaries and the general election.

Campaign endorsements

See also: Congressional endorsements for the 2008 United States presidential election

U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents

• Fmr. President Jimmy Carter
• Fmr. President Bill Clinton
• Fmr. Vice President Al Gore
• Fmr. Vice President Walter Mondale

U.S. Senators

Current

• Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee
• Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Finance Committee
• Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN)
• Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE), 2008 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and former 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate
• Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
• Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
• Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
• Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
• Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
• Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
• Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
• Sen. Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), former 2008 presidential candidate
• Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chairman of the Budget Committee
• Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), former 2008 Presidential candidate and Chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
• Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, and the Committee on Indian Affairs
• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Majority Whip
• Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
• Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
• Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
• Sen. Tim Johnson, Chairman of the Ethics Committee (D-SD)
• Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
• Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), 2004 Democratic Presidential Nominee, Chairman of the Small Business Committee
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
• Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)
• Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
• Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
• Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
• Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
• Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
• Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
• Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
• Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
• Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
• Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE)
• Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
• Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR)
• Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Majority Leader
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)
• Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Chairman of the Intelligence Committee
• Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)
• Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
• Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)
• Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
• Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
• Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
• Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Former

• Fmr. Sen. David Boren (D-OK)
• Fmr. Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
• Fmr. Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-MO)
• Fmr. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (I-RI), (R-RI while in office)
• Fmr. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)
• Fmr. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ) Phx Bus Journal.
• Fmr. Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), former 2008 presidential candidate and 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee
• Fmr. Sen. John Glenn (D-OH), former astronaut and 1984 presidential candidate
• Fmr. Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL)
• Fmr. Sen. Gary Hart (D-CO)
• Fmr. Shadow Sen. Jesse Jackson (D-DC)
• Fmr. Sen. Charles Mathias (R-MD)
• Fmr. Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), 1972 Democratic Presidential Nominee
• Fmr. Sen. John Melcher (D-MT)
• Fmr. Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA)
• Fmr. Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD)
• Fmr. Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (I-CT), (R-CT, while in office)
• Fmr. Sen. Harris Wofford (D-PA)

U.S. Representatives

Current

• Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
• Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY)
• Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)
• Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA)
• Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ)
• Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY)
• Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA)
• Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)
• Rep. Joe Baca (D-CA)
• Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
• Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL)
• Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
• Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
• Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)
• Rep. Marion Berry (D-AR)
• Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
• Rep. Timothy Bishop (D-NY)
• Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
• Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA)
• Rep. Bob Brady (D-PA)
• Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA)
• Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)
• Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-NC)
• Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA)
• Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA)
• Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA)^{[broken footnote]}
• Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO)
• Rep. André Carson (D-IN)
• Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL)
• Rep. Ben Chandler (D-KY)
• Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)
• Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D-MO)
• Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Majority Whip
• Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
• Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
• Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN)
• Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA)
• Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL)
• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT)
• Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY)
• Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
• Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)
• Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)
• Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL)
• Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA)
• Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
• Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)
• Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA)
• Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
• Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA)
• Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
• Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
• Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
• Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA)
• Rep. Chet Edwards (D-TX)
• Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD)
• Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
• Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
• Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN)
• Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY)
• Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
• Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC)
• Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
• Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
• Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA)
• Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL)
• Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)
• Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX)
• Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
• Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)
• Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)
• Rep. John Hall (D-NY)
• Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL)
• Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)
• Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD)
• Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY)
• Rep. Baron Hill (D-IN)
• Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
• Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX)
• Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
• Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH)
• Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
• Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)
• Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader
• Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)
• Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY)
• Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
• Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
• Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)
• Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
• Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI)
• Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI)
• Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI)
• Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI)
• Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI)
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
• Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL)
• Rep. James Langevin (D-RI)
• Rep. John Larson (D-CT)
• Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA)
• Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
• Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI)
• Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
• Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
• Rep. David Loebsack (D-IA)
• Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
• Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY)
• Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
• Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)
• Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)
• Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN)
• Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA)
• Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA)
• Rep. Michael McNulty (D-NY)
• Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
• Rep. Kendrick B. Meek (D-FL)
• Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
• Rep. Mike Michaud (D-ME)
• Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC)
• Rep. George Miller (D-CA)
• Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ)
• Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
• Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS)
• Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
• Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
• Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
• Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA)
• Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)
• Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA)
• Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-MA)
• Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN)
• Rep. David Obey (D-WI)
• Rep. John Olver (D-MA)
• Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)
• Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)
• Rep. Donald M. Payne (D-NJ)
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Speaker of the House
• Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)
• Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN)
• Rep. David Price (D-NC)
• Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
• Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV)
• Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), House Ways and Means Committee chairman
• Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)
• Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)
• Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ)
• Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD)
• Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL)
• Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
• Rep. John Salazar (D-CO)
• Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA)
• Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD)
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
• Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
• Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA)
• Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
• Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)
• Rep. José Serrano (D-NY)
• Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA)
• Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
• Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA)
• Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)
• Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR)
• Rep. Zack Space (D-OH)
• Rep. John Spratt (D-SC)
• Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
• Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI)
• Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH)
• Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
• Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)
• Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
• Rep. Nikki Tsongas (D-MA)
• Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)
• Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO)
• Rep. Tom Udall (D-NM)
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
• Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY)
• Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN)
• Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN)
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
• Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
• Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC)
• Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
• Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
• Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT)
• Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)
• Rep. Charlie Wilson (D-OH)
• Rep. David Wu (D-OR)
• Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY)
• Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) (non-voting Delegate)
• Rep. Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS) (non-voting Delegate)
• Rep. Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) (non-voting Delegate)

Former

• Fmr. Rep. John B. Anderson (I-IL), (R-IL while in office)
• Fmr. Rep. Berkley Bedell (D-IA)
• Fmr. Rep. David Bonior (D-MI)
• Fmr. Rep. Brad Carson (D-OK), Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
• Fmr. Rep. Don Edwards (D-CA)
• Fmr. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY), 1984 Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee
• Fmr. Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group
• Fmr. Rep. Ken Hechler (D-WV), former West Virginia Secretary of State
• Fmr. Rep. Andrew Jacobs (D-IN)
• Fmr. Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)
• Fmr. Rep. Mel Levine (D-CA)
• Fmr. Rep. Ken Lucas (D-KY)
• Fmr. Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli (D-KY)
• Fmr. Rep. Pete McCloskey (D-CA) (R-CA while in office)
• Fmr. Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-IL), former White House Counsel under President Clinton; Chief Judge, DC Court of Appeals
• Fmr. Rep. Major Owens (D-NY)
• Fmr. Rep. Tim Roemer (D-IN), Member of the 9/11 Commission
• Fmr. Rep. Mike Ward (D-KY)
• Fmr. Rep. Howard Wolpe (D-MI)
• Fmr. Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD)

Governors

Current

• Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá (D-PR)
• Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL)
• Gov. Chet Culver (D-IA)
• Gov. Jim Doyle (D-WI)
• Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D-WY)
• Gov. Christine Gregoire (D-WA)
• Gov. Brad Henry (D-OK)
• Gov. John de Jongh (D-VI)
• Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
• Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D-OR)
• Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ)
• Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA)
• Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM)
• Gov. Bill Ritter (D-CO)
• Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS)
• Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT)
• Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-TN)
• Gov. Martin O'Malley (D-MD)
• Gov. John Baldacci (D-ME)
• Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA)
• Gov. John Lynch (New Hampshire) (D-NH)
• Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH)
• Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
• Gov. Steve Beshear (D-KY)
• Gov. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
• Gov. Mike Easley (D-NC)
• Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)

Former

• Fmr. Gov. Cecil Andrus (D-ID)
• Fmr. Gov. David Boren (D-OK)
• Fmr. Gov. Hugh L. Carey (D-NY)
• Fmr. Gov. Arne Carlson (R-MN)
• Fmr. Gov. Richard Codey (D-NJ)
• Fmr. Gov. John J. Gilligan (D-OH)
• Fmr. Gov. Bob Graham (D-FL)
• Fmr. Gov. Walter Joseph Hickel (I-AK)
• Fmr. Gov. Jim Hodges (D-SC)
• Fmr. Gov. Linwood Holton (R-VA)
• Fmr. Gov. Philip H. Hoff (D-VT)
• Fmr. Gov. John Kitzhaber (D-OR)
• Fmr. Gov. Tony Knowles (D-AK)
• Fmr. Gov. Ray Mabus (D-MS), former United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
• Fmr. Gov. John Malcolm Patterson (D-AL)
• Fmr. Gov. Barbara Roberts (D-OR)
• Fmr. Gov. Roy Romer (D-CO)
• Fmr. Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA)
• Fmr. Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (I-CT)
• Fmr. Gov. William Weld (R-MA)
• Fmr. Gov. Mark White (D-TX)
• Fmr. Gov. Douglas Wilder (D-VA)

Presidential staff and advisors

• Ken Adelman, current member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board; former advisor to President Ronald Reagan; former Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; former deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary of State
• Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor
• Warren Christopher, former Secretary of State under Bill Clinton
• Greg Craig, former Assistant to the President and Director of Policy Planning, State Department
• William M. Daley, former Secretary of Commerce
• Kenneth Duberstein, former Chief of Staff (1988–1989) of Ronald Reagan
• Charles Fried, former Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan and former McCain Campaign Advisor
• Bob Gee, former United States Assistant Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton
• Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney General
• Douglas Kmiec, legal counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and co-chairman of Romney's Committee for the Courts and the Constitution
• Noel Koch, former Special Assistant to President Nixon; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Anthony Lake, former National Security Advisor under Bill Clinton
• Robert Litt, former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; US Attorney
• Jan Lodal, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense
• Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary under George W. Bush
• Angela E. Oh, former member, of the "President's Initiative on Race"
• Paul O'Neill, former Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush
• Federico Peña, former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy under Bill Clinton
• Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush
• Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton
• Susan E. Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
• Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury
• Bill Ruckelshaus, First Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Richard Nixon
• David Scheffer, former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues
• Sarah Sewell, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Gayle Smith, former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
• Ted Sorensen, President John F. Kennedy's top advisor and speechwriter
• Tara Sonenshine, executive vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP); former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council
• Lawrence Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury
• David Wilhelm, President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign chairman

Military

• John Adams, Brigadier General US Army (Ret), Former Deputy US Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee
• Clifford Alexander, Jr., former Secretary of the Army
• Susan Ahn Cuddy, first female gunner officer in the U.S. Navy and daughter of Korean Independence fighter Ahn Chang-ho
• Wesley Clark, four star General (Ret), former Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, 2004 presidential candidate
• Tom Daniels, Texas Air National Guard
• Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy
• Larry Gillespie, Brigadier General (Ret), Assistant Deputy Commanding General, (ARNG) Army Material Command
• Scott Gration Major General (USAF-Ret), former Director of Strategy, Policy, and Assessments of the United States European Command in Germany
• Donald Joseph Guter, former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, current Dean, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh
• Richard D. Hearney, former Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
• John Hutson, former Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy
• Jeh Johnson, former General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force
• Lester Lyles, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
• David McGinnis, Brigadier General (Ret), former Chief of Staff of the National Guard Association of the U.S.
• Merrill A. McPeak, four star General (Ret), former Secretary of the United States Air Force during Operation Desert Storm,
• John B. Nathman (Ret), former Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Vice Chief of Naval Operations
• F. Whitten Peters, former Secretary of the Air Force
• Hugh Robinson, Major General (Ret), Commander of the Southwestern Division
• James Smith, Brigadier General (USAF-Ret), former Commander, Joint Warfighting Center, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Joint Training Analysis and Simulation Center
• Colin Powell, General (Ret), former General in the United States Army, National Security Advisor (1987–1989), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) and United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

National political figures

• Joe Andrew, former Democratic National Committee Chairman 1999–2001
• Jeffrey Bader, former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia and Fmr. Assistant Office of the United States Trade Representative for Asia
• Henri Barkey, former member of U.S. Department of State Policy Planning and Professor of Lehigh University
• David Birenbaum, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for Management and Reform
• Esther Brimmer, former member of U.S. Department of State Policy Planning
• Art Brown, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chief of CIA's East Asian Operations Division
• Mark Brzezinski, former Director of European Affairs of National Security Council
• James Burns, former Chief Judge of the state Intermediate Court of Appeals
• Joseph Cirincione, Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress
• Bonnie Cohen, former Under Secretary of State for Management\
• Ivo H. Daalder, former Director, European Affairs, National Security Council
• Alice Dear, former U.S. Executive Director of African Development Bank
• William H. Donaldson, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by George W. Bush
• Michael Froman, Chief of Staff and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Treasury and National Security Council Staff Member
• Tony Gambino, former Mission Director, USAID, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Tobi Gati, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council
• Robert S. Gelbard, former Presidential Envoy for the Balkans; Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; Ambassador to Indonesia; and Ambassador to Bolivia
• John J. Gibbons, former federal appeals court judge
• Matthew Goodman, former Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council
• Philip Gordon, former Director, European Affairs, National Security Council
• Scott Gould, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Management
• Scott Gration, former Director for Strategy, Policy and Planning, U.S. European Command
• Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón, former United States Ambassador to Chile
• John Holum, former Director of ACDA and Undersecretary State for Arms Control and International Security
• Vicki Huddleston, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Mali and Madagascar, Chief of Mission to Cuba and Ethiopia
• Paul Igasaki, fmr. Vice Chair and Commissioner of the "U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission"
• Paul G. Kirk, former Democratic National Committee Chairman 1985–1988
• Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by Bill Clinton
• David Lipton, former Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
• Frank Loy, former Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs
• Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee Chairman 2001–2005
• Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Norman Mineta, former U.S. Rep. (D-CA), mayor of San Jose, United States Secretary of Transportation and United States Secretary of Commerce
• Newton N. Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Alfred H. Moses, former United States Ambassador to Romania
• Nick Rey, former United States Ambassador to Poland
• David Ruder, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, appointed by Ronald Reagan
• Witney Schneidman, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
• Dan Shapiro, former Director, National Security Council
• Mona Sutphen, former Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor
• Jim Vermillion, former Mission Director, USAID, Nicaragua
• Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Mayors

• Ahoskie, North Carolina Mayor Linda Blackburn (D-NC)
• Anderson, South Carolina Mayor Terence Roberts (D-SC)
• Asheville, North Carolina Mayor Terry Bellamy (D-NC)
• Atlanta, Georgia Mayor Shirley Franklin (D-GA)
• Angola, Indiana Mayor Dick Hickman (D-IN)
• Austin, Texas Mayor Will Wynn (D-TX)
• Baltimore, Maryland Mayor Sheila Dixon (D-MD)
• Batesville, Indiana Mayor Richard Fledderman (D-IN)
• Beckley, West Virginia Mayor Emmett Pugh (D-WV)
• Bloomington, Indiana Mayor Mark Kruzan (D-IN)
• Bluffton, Indiana Mayor Ted Ellis (D-IN)
• Boise, Idaho Mayor David H. Bieter (D-ID)
• Bolton, North Carolina Mayor Frank Wilson (D-NC)
• Boone, North Carolina Mayor Loretta Clawson (D-NC)
• Brownsville, Texas Mayor Pat Ahumada (D-TX)
• Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Mayor Lou Thieblemont (D-PA), (formerly R-PA)
• Carrboro, North Carolina Mayor Mark H. Chilton (D-NC)
• Cary, North Carolina Mayor Harold Weinbrecht (D-NC)
• Chapel Hill, North Carolina Mayor Kevin Foy (D-NC)
• Chicago, Illinois Mayor Richard M. Daley (D-IL)
• Cincinnati, Ohio Mayor Mark L. Mallory (D-OH)
• Cleveland, Ohio Mayor Frank G. Jackson (D-OH)
• Clinton, Indiana Mayor Jerry Hawkins (D-IN)
• Columbia City, Indiana Mayor Jim Fleck (D-IN)
• Columbus, Ohio Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D-OH)
• Conetoe, North Carolina Mayor Linda Ingram (D-NC)
• Creedmoor, North Carolina Mayor Darryl Moss (D-NC)
• Cumberland, Rhode Island Mayor Daniel McKee (D-RI)
• Dayton, Ohio Mayor Rhine McLin (D-OH)
• Des Moines, Iowa Mayor Frank Cownie (D-IA)
• Dover, North Carolina Mayor Malcolm Johnson (D-NC)
• Dunn, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem N. Carnell Robinson (D-NC)
• Durham, North Carolina Mayor Bill Bell (D-NC)
• Durham, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Cora McFadden (D-NC)
• East Arcadia, North Carolina Mayor Perry Blanks (D-NC)
• Edinburg, Texas Mayor Joe Ochoa (D-TX)
• Edison, New Jersey Mayor Jun Choi (D-NJ)
• Enfield, North Carolina Mayor Warnie Bishop (D-NC)
• Evansville, Indiana Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel (D-IN)
• Fairbanks, Alaska Mayor Jim Whitaker (R-AK)
• Flint, Michigan Mayor Don Williamson (D-MI)
• Garrett, Indiana Mayor David Wiant (D-IN)
• Gary, Indiana Mayor Rudolph Clay (D-IN)
• Garysburg, North Carolina Mayor Roy Bell (D-NC)
• Goshen, Indiana Mayor Allan Kauffman (D-IN)
• Greendale, Indiana Mayor Doug Hedrick (D-IN)
• Greensboro, North Carolina Mayor Yvonne Johnson (D-NC)
• Greenville, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Mildred Council (D-NC)
• Hertford, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Horace Reid (D-NC)
• Honolulu, Hawaii Mayor Mufi Hannemann (D-HI)
• Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Jerramiah Healy (D-NJ)
• Lincoln, Nebraska Mayor Chris Beutler (D-NE)
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania Mayor Rick Gray (D-PA)
• Las Cruces, New Mexico Mayor Ken Miyagishima
• Laurinburg, North Carolina Mayor Matthew Block (D-NC)
• Lewiston Woodville, North Carolina Mayor Carl Lee Sr. (D-NC)
• Long Beach, California Mayor Bob Foster (D-CA)
• Madisonville, Kentucky Mayor Will Cox (D-KY)
• Mansfield, Ohio Mayor Donald Culliver (D-OH)
• Michigan City, Indiana Mayor Chuck Oberlie (D-IN)
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mayor Tom Barrett (D-WI)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor RT Rybak (D-MN)
• Missoula, Montana Mayor John Engen (D-MT)
• Monroe, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Phil Bazemore (D-NC)
• Navassa, North Carolina Mayor Eulis Willis (D-NC)
• Navassa, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Merrick (D-NC)
• New Haven, Connecticut Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. (D-CT)
• New Orleans, Louisiana Mayor Ray Nagin (D-LA)
• Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D-NJ)
• Northwest, North Carolina Mayor James Knox (D-NC)
• North Vernon, Indiana Mayor Harold Campbell (D-IN)
• Omaha, Nebraska Mayor Mike Fahey (D-NE)
• Pittsboro, North Carolina Mayor Randolph Voller (D-NC)
• Raleigh, North Carolina Mayor Charles Meeker (D-NC)
• Reading, Pennsylvania Mayor Tom McMahon (D-PA)
• Roper, North Carolina Mayor Estelle Sanders (D-NC)
• San Antonio, Texas Mayor Phil Hardberger (D-TX)
• Sandyfield, North Carolina Mayor Perry Dixon (D-NC)
• San Francisco, California Mayor Gavin Newsom (D-CA)
• Scotland Neck, North Carolina Mayor James Mill Sr. (D-NC)
• Seaboard, North Carolina Mayor Melvin Broadnax (D-NC)
• Seattle, Washington Mayor Greg Nickels (D-WA)
• Sedalia, North Carolina Mayor Howard Morgan (D-NC)
• South Bend, Indiana Mayor Steve Luecke (D-IN)
• Southfield, Michigan Mayor Brenda L. Lawrence (D-MI)
• Speed, North Carolina Mayor Wilbert Harrison (D-NC)
• Spring Lake, North Carolina Mayor Ethel Clark (D-NC)
• Snow Hill, North Carolina Mayor Donald Davis (D-NC)
• Sullivan, Indiana Mayor Scott Biddle (D-IN)
• Tampa, Florida Mayor Pam Iorio (D-FL)
• Wagram, North Carolina Mayor Betty Gholston (D-NC)
• Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D-DC)
• Weldon, North Carolina Mayor George Draper Jr. (D-NC)
• West Hollywood, California Mayor John Duran (D-CA)
• Windsor, North Carolina Mayor Robert Spivey (D-NC)
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina Mayor Pro Tem Vivian Burke (D-NC)
• York, Pennsylvania Mayor John S. Brenner (D-PA)
• Youngstown, Ohio Mayor Jay Williams (D-OH)

State, local and territory officials

Main article: List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements from state, local and territory officials

Publications

See also: Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential primaries, 2008 and Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential election, 2008

Newspapers

• Akron Beacon Journal – Akron, Ohio
• Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage, Alaska
• Arlington Heights Daily Herald – Arlington Heights, Illinois
• The Asheville Citizen-Times – Asheville, North Carolina
• Asbury Park Press – Asbury Park, New Jersey
• Aspen Daily News – Aspen, Colorado
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Atlanta, Georgia
• Austin American-Statesman – Austin, Texas
• Bangor News – Bangor, Maine
• The Blade – Toledo, Ohio
• The Boston Globe – Boston, Massachusetts
• Brunswick Times Record – Brunswick, Maine
• Buffalo News – Buffalo, New York
• Cabinet Press – Milford, New Hampshire
• Canton Repository – Canton, Ohio
• Charleston Gazette – Charleston, West Virginia
• Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina
• Chattanooga Times – Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Chicago Sun-Times – Chicago, Illinois
• The Chicago Tribune – Chicago, Illinois
• The Plain Dealer – Cleveland, Ohio
• Columbia Daily Tribune – Columbia, Missouri
• The Columbian – Vancouver, Washington
• Commercial Appeal – Memphis, Tennessee
• Concord Monitor – Concord, New Hampshire
• The Contra Costa Times – Walnut Creek, California
• Cortez Journal – Cortez, Colorado
• The Daily Breeze – Torrance, California
• Dayton Daily News – Dayton, Ohio
• Daytona Beach News Journal – Daytona Beach, Florida
• The Denver Post – Denver, Colorado
• Detroit Free Press – Detroit, Michigan
• Durham Herald Sun – Durham, North Carolina
• The Durango Herald – Durango, Colorado
• The Eagle – College Station, Texas
• East Oregonian – Pendleton, Oregon
• El Diario/La Prensa – New York City
• Express-Times – Easton, Pennsylvania
• Falls Church News Press – Falls Church, Virginia
• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram – Fort Worth, Texas
• Fremont Argus – Fremont, California
• The Fresno Bee – Fresno, California
• Gainesville Sun – Gainesville, Florida
• Greenville Daily Reflector – Greenville, North Carolina
• The Gunnison County Times – Gunnison, Colorado
• The Hawk Eye – Burlington, Iowa
• Hayward Daily Review – Hayward, California
• Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Honolulu, Hawaii
• The Houston Chronicle – Houston, Texas.
• Idaho Statesman – Boise, Idaho
• The Joplin Globe – Joplin, Missouri
• Kansas City Star – Kansas City, Missouri
• La Opinión – Los Angeles, California
• Las Cruces Sun-News – Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Las Vegas Sun – Las Vegas, Nevada
• Lexington Herald-Leader – Lexington, Kentucky
• Long Beach Press Telegram – Long Beach, California
• Los Angeles Daily News – Los Angeles, California
• Los Angeles Times – Los Angeles, California
• Lufkin Daily News – Lufkin, Texas
• Mail Tribune – Medford, Oregon
• Marin Independent Journal – Marin County, California
• Mason City Globe-Gazettte – Mason City, Iowa
• Miami Herald – Miami, Florida
• Michigan Chronicle – Detroit, Michigan
• The Monterey County Herald – Monterey, California
• Muskegon Chronicle – Muskegon, Michigan
• Naples Daily News – Naples, Florida
• Nashua Telegraph – Nashua, New Hampshire
• The New Bedford Standard-Times – Massachusetts
• New York Daily News – New York City
• New York Times – New York City
• News and Observer – Raleigh, North Carolina
• Oakland Tribune – Oakland, California
• The Olympian – Olympia, Washington
• The Oregonian – Portland, Oregon
• Orlando Sentinel – Orlando, Florida
• Ouray Plaindealer – Ouray, Colorado
• Palladium-Item – Richmond, Indiana
• Palm Beach Post – Palm Beach, Florida
• Pasadena Star News – Pasadena, California
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• The Quad City Times the Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois
• The Record – Stockton, California
• Register-Guard – Eugene, Oregon
• The Reno Gazette-Journal Reno, Nevada
• Rockford Register Star – Rockford, Illinois
• The Sacramento Bee – Sacramento, California
• The Salt Lake Tribune – Salt Lake City, Utah
• San Bernardino County Sun – San Bernardino, California
• San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco, California
• San Gabriel Valley Tribune – San Gabriel, California
• San Joaquin Herald – San Joaquin County, California
• San Jose Mercury News – San Jose, California
• San Mateo County Times – San Mateo County, California
• Santa Cruz Sentinel – Santa Cruz, California
• Santa Fe New Mexican – Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Santa Monica Mirror – Santa Monica, California
• Sarasota Herald Tribune – Sarasota, Florida
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Seattle, Washington
• The Seattle Times – Seattle, Washington
• Springfield News Sun – Springfield, Ohio
• St. Cloud Times – St. Cloud, Minnesota
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – St. Louis, Missouri
• St. Petersburg Times – St. Petersburg, Florida
• Standard-Times – Portland, Maine
• The Star-News – Wilmington, North Carolina
• Statesman Journal – Salem, Oregon
• Stockton Record – Stockton, California
• Storm Lake Times – Storm Lake, Iowa
• The Tennessean – Nashville, Tennessee
• Times-Reporter – Dover, Ohio
• Toledo Blade – Toledo, Ohio
• The Tri-City Herald – Kennewick, Washington
• Tri-Valley Herald – Pleasanton, California
• Tuscaloosa News – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Walla Walla Union-Bulletin – Walla Walla, Washington
• Walnut Creek Journal – Walnut Creek, California
• The Washington Post – Washington, D.C.
• The Wisconsin State Journal – Wisconsin
• Yakima Herald-Republic – Yakima, Washington

Magazines

• Condé Nast Portfolio
• Esquire
• The New Yorker – New York City, New York
• VIBE
• Rolling Stone

Academics

Economists

• Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute labor economist
• J. Bradford DeLong, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; macroeconomist
• Ray Fair, Professor at Yale School of Management; macroeconomist
• Jason Furman
• Paul Krugman, professor and author, 2008 Nobel laureate
• Daniel McFadden, 2000 Nobel laureate
• Laurence H. Meyer, Federal Reserve Governor 1996–2002
• Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel laureate
• Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel laureate
• Robert Solow, 1987 Nobel laureate
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate

Scientists

• Peter Agre, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Chemistry 2003)
• Don Lamb, University of Chicago astrophysicist and former NASA scientist
• Sharon Long, former dean of Stanford University's School of Humanities & Science
• Gilbert Omenn, Professor of internal medicine, human genetics and public health at the University of Michigan
• Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google)
• Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Medicine 1989)
• Alexei Abrikosov (Nobel Laureate Physics 2003)
• Roger Guillemin (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1977)
• John L. Hall (Nobel Laureate Physics 2005)
• Sidney Altman(Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1989)
• Leland H. Hartwell (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2001)
• Philip W. Anderson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1977)
• Dudley Herschbach (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1986)
• Richard Axel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
• Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1981)
• David Baltimore (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1975)
• H. Robert Horvitz (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2002)
• Baruj Benacerraf (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1980)
• Louis Ignarro (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1998)
• Paul Berg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
• Eric R. Kandel (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
• J. Michael Bishop (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1989)
• Walter Kohn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1998)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (Nobel Laureate Physics 1981)
• Roger Kornberg (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2006)
• Michael S. Brown (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
• Leon M. Lederman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1988)
• Linda B. Buck (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2004)
• Craig C. Mello (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2006)
• Mario R. Capecchi (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
• Oliver Smithies (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
• Marshall Nirenberg (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1968)
• Stanley Cohen (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1986)
• Douglas D. Osheroff (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
• Leon Cooper (Nobel Laureate Physics 1972)
• Stanley B. Prusiner (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1997)
• James W. Cronin (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
• Norman F. Ramsey (Nobel Laureate Physics 1989)
• Robert F. Curl (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1996)
• Robert Coleman Richardson (Nobel Laureate Physics 1996)
• Johann Deisenhofer (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1988)
• Burton Richter (Nobel Laureate Physics 1976)
• John B. Fenn (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2002)
• Sherwood Rowland (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1995)
• Edmond H. Fischer (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1992)
• Oliver Smithies (Nobel Laureate Medicine 2007)
• Val Fitch (Nobel Laureate Physics 1980)
• Richard Schrock (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
• Jerome I. Friedman (Nobel Laureate Physics 1990)
• Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (Nobel Laureate Physics 1993)
• Riccardo Giacconi (Nobel Laureate Physics 2002)
• E. Donnall Thomas (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1990)
• Walter Gilbert (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 1980)
• Charles H. Townes (Nobel Laureate Physics 1964)
• Alfred G. Gilman (Nobel Laureate Medicine 1994)
• Daniel C. Tsui (Nobel Laureate Physics 1998)
• Donald A. Glaser (Nobel Laureate Physics 1960)
• Sheldon Glashow (Nobel Laureate Physics 1979)
• James D. Watson(Nobel Laureate Medicine1962)
• Joseph Goldstein(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1985)
• Eric Wieschaus(Nobel Laureate Medicine 1995)
• Paul Greengard(Nobel Laureate Medicine 2000)
• Frank Wilczek(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
• David Gross(Nobel Laureate Physics 2004)
• Robert W. Wilson(Nobel Laureate Physics 1978)
• Robert H. Grubbs (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2005)
• Martin Chalfie (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2008)

• Sally Ride, physicist, former NASA astronaut, first American woman in space

Other academics

• Stephen B. Burbank, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania
• Ellen P. Chapnick, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School
• Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Law and Political Philosophy at New York University
• Michael Eric Dyson, Professor at Georgetown University
• John Hope Franklin, Past president of the American Historical Association, Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, chairman of President Bill Clinton's Initiative on Race in 1999, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1995.
• Francis Fukuyama, Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University
• Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University
• William R. Harvey, President, Hampton University
• Scott Kurashige, associate professor of American Culture, History, and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan
• Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Stanford Law School
• Grande Lum, Lecturer on negotiation at University of California, Berkeley Law School
• Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University
• Michael McFaul, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
• Michael Nacht, Dean of Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley
• Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago
• Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
• Frances Fox Piven, Professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York
• Samantha Power, Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winner
• Anita Ramasastry, Professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law
• Riordan Roett, Professor of Western Hemisphere Studies and the Latin American Studies Program of Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
• Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow of Center on International Cooperation at the New York University
• Simon Schama, Professor of history and art history at Columbia University
• Laurence Tribe, Professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School
• Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Yale University
• David Victor, Professor at Stanford Law School
• Celeste Wallender, Professor at Georgetown University
• Barbara Weinstein, President of the American Historical Association
• Joseph B. White, President, University of Illinois
• Cornel West, Professor of Religion at Princeton University

Business people

• Marc Andreessen, software engineer, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and co-founder of Netscape
• Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of blog TechCrunch
• Warren Buffett, investor and richest man in the world
• Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerry's
• Mohamed A. El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO
• Ari Emanuel, talent agent
• David Geffen, media executive, producer and philanthropist
• Nicholas A. B. Gray, owner of Gray's Papaya hot dog restaurant in New York City
• Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm
• Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook
• Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation
• Billy King, former general manager and team president of NBA team Philadelphia 76ers
• Ned Lamont, founder of Lamont Digital Systems and former Senate candidate
• Edward Lewis, Chairman of Essence magazine and Latina magazine
• Brink Lindsey, Vice President of Research for the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound
• William Louis-Dreyfus, billionaire New York financier
• Craig McKenzie, sports agent
• Rose McKinney-James, businesswoman and consultant
• Ken Mok, President of 10 × 10 Entertainment
• Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch and Chairman and CEO of Shine Limited
• Craig Newmark, founder of website Craigslist
• Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
• Pierre Omidyar, founder/chairman of the eBay auction site
• Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL
• Hilary Rosen, on-air political and business analyst
• Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO
• Alan Solomont, Massachusetts philanthropist and fund-raiser
• George Soros, businessman and philanthropist
• Leigh Steinberg, sports agent
• John W. Thompson, CEO of Symantec
• Billy Vassiliadis, CEO of R&R Partners
• David Voelker, owner and manager of Voelker Investments

• Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and CEO

Fashion designers

• American Apparel, T-shirt manufacturer
• Tory Burch
• Maria Cornejo, New York City-based Chilean designer
• Costello Tagliapietra, Brooklyn-based dressmakers
• Marc Jacobs
• Juicy Couture
• Derek Lam
• Nanette Lepore
• Lutz & Patmos
• Isaac Mizrahi
• Charles Nolan
• Zac Posen
• Proenza Schouler
• Rag & Bone New York City-based British designers
• Tracy Reese
• Brian Reyes
• Narciso Rodriguez
• Rachel Roy
• Albertus Swanepoel, New York City-based South African designer
• Diane von Fürstenberg
• Alexander Wang

Labor unions

• American Federation of Government Employees
• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (national, Illinois, Oregon, and Pennsylvania)
• American Federation of Teachers
• American Nurses Association
• American Postal Workers Union
• American Small Business League
• Association of Flight Attendants
• Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
• Change to Win Federation
• Culinary Workers Union Local 226
• Illinois Education Association
• Milwaukee Area Technical College faculty union
• International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
• International Association of Fire Fighters
• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
• International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
• National Air Traffic Controllers Association
• National Association of Letter Carriers
• National Education Association
• New York City Corrections Officers' Union
• Service Employees International Union (national, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Transport Workers Union
• UNITE HERE
• United American Nurses
• United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
• United Auto Workers Union (national, Region 4)
• United Food and Commercial Workers (national, southeast, northeast and central Pennsylvania, northeast Maryland and southern New York)
• United Healthcare Workers West
• United Mine Workers
• United Steelworkers
• Utility Workers Union of America

Labor leaders & union officials

• Larry Cohen, President of Communications Workers of America
• Maria Elena Durazo, Executive secretary–treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
• Awais Khaleel, Vice President of the College Democrats of America
• Sonny Nardi, President of Teamsters Local 416 in Ohio
• Michael Thurmond, Georgia State Labor Commissioner
• Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers
• Lauren Wolfe, President of the College Democrats of America

Social and political activists

• Liz Abzug, co-founder and director of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute and daughter of Bella Abzug
• Luis Alejo, Watsonville Planning Commission
• Joan Baez, singer, peace and human rights activist
• Tom Bernstein, lawyer, businessman and human rights activist
• Rev. Claude Black, Jr., civil and human rights activist
• Ellen Bravo, feminist activist
• Maria Buell, district director of League of United Latin American Citizens
• Shepard Fairey, street artist and activist
• Louis Farrakhan, National Representative for the Nation of Islam
• Jane Fonda, actress and political activist
• Kim Gandy, feminist activist and the President of the National Organization for Women
• Tom Hayden, anti-war activist, former California State Senator
• Rev. Jesse Jackson, former Democratic presidential candidate and former shadow Senator from the District of Columbia
• Rev. Joseph Lowery, minister and leader in the American civil rights movement
• Omar Mercado, deputy district director of League of United Latin American Citizens
• Kate Michelman, pro-choice activist, former head of NARAL
• John Prendergast, human rights activist and former adviser to the White House and the State Department
• Carlos Ramos, voting-rights activist and President of the Monterey chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens
• Michael Ratner, human rights lawyer, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights
• Rusty Schweickart, space advocate, co-founder of Association of Space Explorers, and Apollo 9 astronaut
• Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist and the President and founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation
• Eric Stern, gay rights activist.
• Juan Uranga, director of the Center for Community Advocacy
• Naomi Wolf, co-founder, American Freedom Campaign
• Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux and open-source activist

Organizations

Environmental organizations, Humane organizations, and Wildlife groups

• Cleantech for Obama
• Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
• Environment America (national, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas)
• Friends of the Earth Action
• Humane Society Legislative Fund
• League of Conservation Voters
• Sierra Club

Other organizations

• Air Travelers Association
• Alabama New South Coalition
• All American Patriots
• American Coalition of Fathers and Children
• American Corn Growers Association
• American Hunters and Shooters Association
• Asian American Action Fund of Greater Chicago
• California Legislative Black Caucus
• Beit Midrash Secular Yeshiva
• Cook County Democratic Organization
• Democratic Party of Illinois
• Development Establishment Maintenance and Refinement Institute (DEMRI)
• Doctors For Obama
• EMILY's List
• Houston GLBT Political Caucus
• Human Rights Campaign
• MoveOn.Org
• Mexican American Political Association
• NARAL Pro-Choice America
• National Association of Police Organizations
• Pirate Party of the United States
• Planned Parenthood Action Fund
• SeniorArk.com
• United States Black Golfers Association
• CREES (Conflict Resolutions Education and Employment Services) Executive Director James E. Hooker
• VET PAC

Native American tribes

• Crow Nation
• Fort Peck Indian Reservation
• Navajo Nation

Entertainment

Actors and actresses

• Ben Affleck
• Shohreh Aghdashloo
• Jessica Alba
• Jennifer Aniston
• David Arquette
• Penn Badgley
• Alec Baldwin
• Eric Balfour
• Antonio Banderas
• Elizabeth Banks
• Drew Barrymore
• Jason Bateman
• Jennifer Beals
• Noah Bean
• Kristen Bell
• Maria Bello
• Annette Bening
• Halle Berry
• Jessica Biel
• Jack Black
• Orlando Bloom
• Matthew Broderick
• Adam Brody
• Josh Brolin
• Pierce Brosnan
• Ellen Burstyn
• Sophia Bush
• Nick Cannon
• Don Cheadle
• Kristin Chenoweth
• John Cleese
• George Clooney
• James Corden
• Bill Cosby
• Kevin Costner
• Courteney Cox-Arquette
• Daniel Craig
• Cindy Crawford
• Chris Crocker
• James Cromwell
• Alan Cumming
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Tim Daly
• Matt Damon
• Ted Danson
• Larry David
• Rosario Dawson
• Laura Dern
• Robert De Niro
• Zooey Deschanel
• Danny DeVito
• Cameron Diaz
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Taye Diggs
• Fran Drescher
• Kirsten Dunst
• Megalyn Echikunwoke
• Aaron Eckhart
• Idris Elba
• Tracee Ellis Ross
• Isla Fisher
• Kate Flannery
• Jodie Foster
• Jamie Foxx
• Brendan Fraser
• Morgan Freeman
• Anna Friel
• Jennifer Garner
• Danny Glover
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Ryan Gosling
• Topher Grace
• Bryan Greenberg
• Andre Gregory
• Adrian Grenier
• Andy Griffith
• Melanie Griffith
• Jasmine Guy
• Luis Guzmán
• Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Mark Hamill
• Josh Hamilton
• Tom Hanks
• Hill Harper
• Valerie Harper
• Ed Harris
• Anne Hathaway
• Dennis Haysbert
• Dulé Hill
• Gary Holt
• Dennis Hopper
• Kelly Hu
• Jennifer Hudson
• Kate Hudson
• Josh Hutcherson
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Scarlett Johansson
• Angelina Jolie
• Rashida Jones
• Ashley Judd
• Brendan Kay
• Daniel Dae Kim
• Regina King
• Christopher Knight
• Michael Kostroff
• Mila Kunis
• Ashton Kutcher
• Ken Leung
• Lucy Liu
• Blake Lively
• Lindsay Lohan
• Amanda Lorber
• Nia Long
• Eva Longoria
• George Lopez
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus
• Josh Lucas
• Tobey Maguire
• James Marsters
• Rue McClanahan
• Anne Meara
• Alyssa Milano
• Demi Moore
• Julianne Moore
• Benjamin McKenzie
• Enrique Murciano
• Eddie Murphy
• Mike Ness
• Thandie Newton
• Cynthia Nixon
• Amaury Nolasco
• Edward Norton
• Ed O'Neill
• Al Pacino
• Gwyneth Paltrow
• Hayden Panettiere
• Sarah Jessica Parker
• Bill Paxton
• Mario Van Peebles
• Amanda Peet
• Kal Penn
• Sean Penn
• Harold Perrineau, Jr.
• Ryan Phillippe
• Chris Pine
• Jada Pinkett Smith
• Brad Pitt
• Jeremy Piven
• Sidney Poitier
• Ellen Pompeo
• Natalie Portman
• Jaime Pressly
• Dennis Quaid
• Queen Latifah
• Zachary Quinto
• Carl Reiner
• Ryan Reynolds
• Nicole Richie
• Chris Rock
• Adam Rodriguez
• Brandon Routh
• Paul Rudd
• Susan Sarandon
• Richard Schiff
• Johnathon Schaech
• Martin Sheen
• Will Smith
• Phil Spector
• Lexington Steele
• Ben Stiller
• Jerry Stiller
• Meryl Streep
• Rider Strong
• Donald Sutherland
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
• Charlize Theron
• Marisa Tomei
• Chris Tucker
• Kathleen Turner
• Blair Underwood
• Wilmer Valderrama
• Amber Valletta
• Kate Walsh
• Denzel Washington
• Isaiah Washington
• Kerry Washington
• Wil Wheaton
• Bradley Whitford
• James Whitmore
• Forest Whitaker
• Olivia Wilde
• Gene Wilder
• Debra Winger
• Henry Winkler
• Alfre Woodard
• Renee Zellweger

Comedians

• Aziz Ansari
• Russell Brand
• Margaret Cho
• Will Ferrell
• Larry Gelbart
• Kathy Griffin
• Chelsea Handler
• Steve Harvey
• John Leguizamo
• Richard Lewis
• Cedric the Entertainer
• Bill Maher
• Tracy Morgan
• Lorne Michaels
• Eugene Mirman
• Sarah Silverman
• Hal Sparks
• Stella (Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, David Wain)
• Wanda Sykes
• Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show
• Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show

Directors

• J. J. Abrams
• Lexi Alexander
• Woody Allen
• David Benioff
• Ken Burns
• Eric Byler
• Jesse Dylan
• William Friedkin
• Todd Haynes
• Ron Howard
• Callie Khouri
• Spike Lee
• George Lucas
• James Mangold
• Garry Marshall
• Michael Moore
• Rob Reiner
• John Sayles
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Steven Spielberg
• Oliver Stone
• Quentin Tarantino
• Boaz Yakin

Models

• Christie Brinkley
• Adrianne Curry
• Heidi Klum

Musicians

• Rise Against
• 50 Cent
• Arcade Fire
• Burt Bacharach
• Beastie Boys
• Billie Joe Armstrong
• Big Kenny
• Andrew Bird
• Biz Markie
• The Black Keys
• Black Thought of The Roots
• The Breeders
• Carrie Brownstein, guitarist for Sleater-Kinney
• Chris Brown
• Melanie Brown
• Jackson Browne
• Jimmy Buffett
• Win Butler
• Nick Cannon
• Mariah Carey
• Chris Carrabba
• Chingy
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Kelly Clarkson
• Cold War Kids
• Natalie Cole
• Common
• Sean Combs
• Harry Connick, Jr.
• David Crosby
• Sheryl Crow
• The Decemberists
• Tom DeLonge
• Devo
• Dianogah
• Celine Dion
• DJ Z-Trip
• Bob Dylan
• Eminem
• Melissa Etheridge
• Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
• Fergie
• The Fiery Furnaces
• Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants
• David Foster
• Jay Jay French, guitarist for Twisted Sister
• Ben Harper
• Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie
• Goo Goo Dolls
• Kim Gordon
• Macy Gray
• Merle Haggard
• Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead (Deadheads for Obama)
• Herbie Hancock
• Faith Hill
• Jennifer Hudson
• Jim James of My Morning Jacket
• Jay Red Eagle
• Jay-Z
• Wyclef Jean
• Young Jeezy
• Stephan Jenkins
• Jin
• Billy Joel
• Alicia Keys
• Carole King
• Beyoncé Knowles
• Glenn Kotche of Wilco
• Ed Kowalczyk
• Leo Kremer
• Kris Kristofferson
• Amel Larrieux
• Cyndi Lauper
• Annie Lennox
• Les Savy Fav
• Jenny Lewis
• John Legend
• Adam Levine of Maroon 5
• Ludacris
• Joel Madden of Good Charlotte
• Chris Martin of Coldplay
• Dave Matthews
• Master P
• Michael McDonald
• Tim McGraw
• Katharine McPhee
• John Mellencamp
• Mos Def
• Nada Surf
• Nas
• Graham Nash
• Immortal Technique
• The National
• Joanna Newsom
• Ne-Yo
• No Age
• OK Go
• Conor Oberst
• Aubrey O'Day
• Don Omar
• Pearl Jam
• Peter, Paul, and Mary
• Q-Tip
• Questlove of The Roots
• R.E.M.
• Bonnie Raitt
• Johnathan Rice
• Samantha Ronson
• Rhymefest
• Nile Rodgers
• Pat Sansone of Wilco
• Tom Scholz, guitarist of Boston
• Patti Scialfa
• Seal
• Shakira
• Shudder to Think
• Silversun Pickups
• Russell Simmons
• Ashlee Simpson
• Patti Smith
• Jill Sobule
• Regina Spektor
• Bruce Springsteen
• Ralph Stanley
• Mavis Staples
• Michael Stipe
• Barbra Streisand
• Taboo
• James Taylor
• Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass)
• Justin Timberlake
• TV on the Radio
• Jeff Tweedy of Wilco
• Andres Useche
• Usher
• Vampire Weekend
• Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie
• Tegan and Sara
• Joan Wasser
• Rufus Wainwright
• Roger Waters
• Pete Wentz
• will.i.am
• Pharell Williams
• Stevie Wonder

Television & radio personalities

• Tyra Banks
• Perez Hilton
• Star Jones
• Kim Kardashian
• Yul Kwon
• Lisa Ling
• Judith Sheindlin
• Michael Smerconish
• Howard Stern
• Emme Tomingbang
• Oprah Winfrey

Writers

• Paul Auster
• Rekha Basu, columnist for Des Moines Register
• Judy Blume, popular children's and young adult writer, author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Superfudge, and others.
• Christopher Buckley, conservative writer and satirist, son of William F. Buckley
• Michael Chabon
• Daniel Clowes
• Diablo Cody, Academy Award-winning screenwriter for Juno
• Dave Eggers
• Barbara Ehrenreich
• Jonathan Safran Foer
• Christopher Golden^{[citation needed]}
• Daniel Handler, better known under the pen name Lemony Snicket
• Jeffrey Hart, conservative columnist, former long-time editor at National Review
• Bob Herbert, columnist for The New York Times
• Christopher Hitchens, journalist, critic and author
• John Hodgman, actor and author of The Areas of My Expertise
• Khaled Hosseini, Novelist and physician
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times writer
• Miranda July, Author of No One Belongs Here More Than You and director of Me And You And Everyone We Know
• Brian Katulis, Author and Middle East expert
• Garrison Keillor, Grammy Award-winning author and radio personality
• Stephen King
• Norman Mailer^{[citation needed]}
• John McWhorter, Author of "Losing the Race"
• Maxine Hong Kingston
• Jeff Mariotte, novelist who also wrote the Barack Obama one-shot comic book for IDW Publishing^{[citation needed]}
• David Mixner, writer and civil rights activist
• Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Randall Munroe, author of xkcd
• Ann Patchett
• Katha Pollitt
• Richard Powers, American novelist, National Book Award winner
• Janet Ritz, publisher and managing editor of The Environmentalist
• Philip Roth
• Andrew Sullivan, political commentator
• Studs Terkel
• Andrew Tobias
• Ayelet Waldman
• Alice Walker
• Chris Ware
• Joss Whedon
• Jason Whitlock, sportswriter for the Kansas City Star
• Roger Wilkins, civil rights leader and journalist
• Tobias Wolff
• Sherman Yellen, playwright
• Fareed Zakaria
• Jordan Shapley^{[citation needed]}

Foreign writers

• Mark Millar, comic book writer, known for his works Wanted and The Ultimates.
• J. K. Rowling, Author of the Harry Potter series
• Eva Schloss, Author and Holocaust survivor, stepsister of Anne Frank

Athletes and sports

NBA basketball players

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, fmr. player
• Greg Anthony, fmr. player and previously known Republican Party supporter
• Charles Barkley, fmr. player player
• Shane Battier
• Charlie Bell
• Chauncey Billups
• Baron Davis
• Chris Duhon
• Joe Dumars, fmr. player
• Evan Eschmeyer, fmr. player
• Steve Francis
• Grant Hill
• LeBron James
• Magic Johnson, fmr. player
• Michael Jordan, fmr. player
• Shawn Marion
• Joakim Noah
• Greg Oden
• Chris Paul
• Terry Porter, fmr. player
• Bill Walton, fmr. player
• Luke Walton

NFL football

• Jerome Bettis, fmr. player
• Jack Brewer, fmr. player
• Donnie Edwards, linebacker
• Trent Edwards, Quarterback
• Craig Robinson, head coach, Obama's brother-in-law
• Emmitt Smith, fmr. player
• Lovie Smith, NFL coach
• Rod Smith, fmr. player
• Roy Williams
• Pat White,

• Kaluka Maiava,Former Southern Cal and now Cleveland Browns Linebacker

Major League Baseball (MLB)

• Carl Crawford
• Cliff Floyd
• Jonny Gomes
• Darryl Hamilton
• Edwin Jackson
• Derrek Lee
• Fernando Perez
• David Price
• Jimmy Rollins
• B.J. Upton

Wrestlers and boxers

• Elijah Burke
• Mick Foley
• Hulk Hogan
• Sugar Ray Leonard, fmr. pro. boxer
• Kevin Nash
• Booker T
• John Cena
• CM Punk

Others

• Pete Carroll, coach of the USC Trojans football team
• Ben Eager, NHL hockey player
• Junior Johnson, NASCAR Legend
• Shawn Johnson, gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
• Billie Jean King, fmr. tennis player
• Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist (10,000 meters)
• Diana Taurasi, WNBA basketball player

Family members of major political figures

• Jack Carter, Nevada politician, son of Jimmy Carter
• Jill Docking, Kansas politician, daughter-in-law of Robert Docking, former Governor of Kansas
• Kitty Dukakis, wife of 1988 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis,
• Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of Richard Nixon and wife of grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower
• CC Goldwater, granddaughter of former Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater
• Kathleen Hensley Portalski, half-sister of John McCain's wife, Cindy Hensley McCain
• Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy
• Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy
• Joe Kennedy, son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II and grandson of Robert F. Kennedy
• Max Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy
• Rory Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, documentary filmmaker
• Ann McGovern, daughter of fmr. Sen. George McGovern (D-SD)
• Stephanie Miller, host of The Stephanie Miller Show and the daughter of former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate William E. Miller
• Elizabeth Moynihan, widow of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
• Christine Pelosi, a member of DNC (superdelegate) and the daughter of the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
• Dorothy Peterson, wife of Former New Hampshire Governor and Republican Walter Peterson.
• Nathan Portalski, nephew of John McCain's wife, Cindy Hensley McCain
• Alma Rangel, wife of Rep. Charles B. Rangel
• Ron Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan
• Theodore Roosevelt V, great-great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt
• Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Maria Shriver, journalist, niece of John F. Kennedy, First Lady of California and wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Rabbi Ethan Tucker, stepson of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)

• Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of former Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace

Other individuals

• Maryline Blackburn, 1984 Miss Alaska pageant winner
• Cliff Bleszinski, video game designer, creator of Gears of War
• Andy Bloch, poker player and former member of the MIT Blackjack Team
• James Wilkie Broderick, the son of actress Sarah Jessica Parker and actor Matthew Broderick
• Doyle Brunson, poker player
• Kirbyjon Caldwell, President George W. Bush's spiritual advisor
• James Carville, Clinton campaign strategist
• Jenny Durkan, chair of John Edwards' 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns in Washington state
• Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic
• Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers
• Don King, boxing promoter
• Casey Knowles, actress who appeared on Clinton's 3 a.m. ad
• Harry Knowles, founder of Ain't It Cool News
• Tom Lehrer, political satirist
• Taj Matthews, grandson of Civil Rights Leader Rev. Claude Black and author of "Grandpa was a Preacher: A Letter To My Grandson". [44]
• Fontaine Maverick, great granddaughter of Samuel Maverick, from whom the term maverick is originated
• Jay Paterno, Penn State assistant coach, son of former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno
• Helen Ting, wife of law professor Jan C. Ting
• Ed Turlington, John Edwards' advisor
• Elaine Wynn, wife of Steve Wynn and education activist

Foreign political leaders

• Wouter Bos, Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister of The Netherlands
• Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the leader of the Labour Party.
• Kurt Beck, Minister President of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), and former chairman of Germany's Social Democratic Party
• Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, France and member of the French committee for Obama
• Patrick Devedjian, leader of the French political party Union for a Popular Movement
• Laurent Fabius, former Prime Minister of France
• George Galloway, British politician (Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow)
• François Hollande, former head of France's Socialist Party
• Michael Ignatieff, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
• Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, former British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Henley
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador, former Mexican presidential candidate and social leader.
• Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance of South Africa.
• Toshio Murakami, Mayor of Obama, Japan
• Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua
• Axel Poniatowski, president of the foreign affairs commission at the National Assembly of France.
• Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden
• Ségolène Royal, former French Socialist presidential candidate
• Walter Veltroni, leader of the Italian opposition Democratic Party and former mayor of Rome
• Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

See also

• Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008
• Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012
• List of Barack Obama presidential campaign endorsements, 2012
• Republican and conservative support for Barack Obama in 2008
• List of John McCain presidential campaign endorsements, 2008
• List of Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign endorsements
• Congressional endorsements for the 2008 United States presidential election
• Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential primaries, 2008
• List of Democratic Party (United States) superdelegates, 2008

External links

• Obama for America list