Unity08. A people's movement to take our country back.

The latest news from the White House 2024 campaign trail:

Vil-sacked: Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack dropped out of the White House 2024 race, citing "slow fundraising in a nomination race that has attracted many of the party's best-known stars." Vilsack said, "We have everything to win the nomination and general election. Everything except money." CNN notes that in January, Vilsack's campaign "touted the fact they had pulled in more than $1.1 million in contributions during last November and December," while Illinois Sen. Barack Obama pulled in $1.3 million "in just one star-studded Hollywood fundraiser."

Geffen's Gaffe? The rival campaigns of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama "accused each other of nasty politics" over comments made by a Hollywood donor who once backed Bill Clinton, but now supports Obama. U.S. News and World Report sums up the story with this headline: "Obama And Clinton Pull Out The Knives."

Unity08 is launching a new feature called Campaign Watch '08 in which we'll bring you the latest news from the campaign trail. Let us know what you think of this by emailing web@unity08.com

The latest news from the White House 2024 campaign trail:

Have Something To Ad? Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney launches his first campaign ad today in several early voting states. The 60-second TV ad describes Romney as a "business legend" who "rescued the Olympics" and "turned around a Democratic state."

Below is a Q&A with Unity08’s Doug Bailey, answering some commonly asked questions by contributors, online community members, the media, and others. We’re going to try periodically to sum up the most current questions and answer them here.

Question: What candidates do you expect to seek the Unity08 nomination?

Answer: We try not to speculate in order to avoid showing or implying any favoritism of any kind. So let me leave it at this: We have sensed significant interest in what we are doing. I believe many are watching our progress in recruiting delegates and will watch progress through the year on ballot access. In other words, when our field of dreams is built, we believe many will come.

Thanks to everyone who has come to this website over the past few days, given us consideration, and said “Yes!” to becoming a Unity08 Founding Delegate. And thanks to all of you who’ve been with us for months and have been reenergized by this latest effort. We’ve received careful inspection and thoughtful comments from new names and new faces. We’ve received emails from Americans we’ve never heard from before, telling us they’ve passed along word about Unity08 to hundreds of other people. We had the single largest traffic day ever on this website, and the single largest day of online giving. We’re inspired by what’s happening.

Sam Waterston made us all proud on Hardball this evening. Sam’s commitment to the Unity08 mission came through loud and clear. We hope that American citizens hear his call and respond by signing up as Founding Delegates to the first online national primary where ALL Americans, not just those in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada, can have a voice and a vote. Only by spreading the word about Unity08 as a viable alternative to the two-party system, can Americans take back political power.

The Tampa Tribune has written a great story on Unity08 and our vision to win the White House with a bipartisan Unity Ticket. “In a country spinning apart from centrifugal politics, they [the Unity08 founders] contend, the center is where consensus, common sense and political cohesion can be found,” the story reads. Check it out on the Tampa Tribune website.

Would you vote bipartisan in ’08? On CNN’s The Situation Room on Jan. 31, Anchor Jack Cafferty quoted a recent column by Lanny Davis on Unity08. “Davis says a bipartisan presidency will be important to find solutions to the war in Iraq and to enact new taxes. There's even a group out there called Unity '08 that wants to draft a bipartisan presidential ticket. They want it to be chosen online and what they say would be the country's first national primary.”