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146 articles from 30 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Image: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention Barack Obama, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned Barack Obama, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
Fox News mentioned it first (Sep 28, 2026, 7:25 PM EDT). Least biased outlets followed 6 days later, left-leaning outlets 7 days later.
One row per source that mentioned Barack Obama, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention Barack Obama, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Vox | 0.8% | 1 | 128 |
| The New York Times | 0.3% | 3 | 1197 |
| NBC News | 1.2% | 8 | 685 |
| The Guardian | 0.2% | 2 | 957 |
| ABC News | 2.1% | 4 | 190 |
| CNBC | 0.2% | 2 | 956 |
| The Atlantic | 0.4% | 1 | 277 |
| Axios | 0.5% | 2 | 376 |
| NPR | 0.3% | 1 | 396 |
| Politico | 1.1% | 1 | 87 |
| Bloomberg | 0.6% | 3 | 484 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.5% | 3 | 581 |
| Semafor | 0.2% | 1 | 459 |
| The Hill | 1.5% | 17 | 1147 |
| Tangle | 3.2% | 1 | 31 |
| UPI | 0.4% | 1 | 222 |
| NewsNation | 0.9% | 2 | 214 |
| CBS News | 0.9% | 13 | 1538 |
| Washington Examiner | 3.3% | 14 | 428 |
| The Washington Times | 0.8% | 4 | 475 |
| Reason | 0.7% | 2 | 307 |
| Fox Business | 0.4% | 1 | 234 |
| The Free Press | 1.4% | 1 | 72 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 2.3% | 3 | 132 |
| New York Post | 0.4% | 9 | 2361 |
| The Daily Caller | 1.0% | 5 | 511 |
| The Daily Wire | 1.5% | 13 | 863 |
| Newsmax | 0.8% | 3 | 391 |
| Fox News | 0.6% | 15 | 2449 |
| Breitbart | 0.5% | 10 | 1852 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention Barack Obama, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning12 of 15 sources
- 0.5%
- Least biased4 of 8 sources
- 0.7%
- Right-leaning14 of 15 sources
- 1.0%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +1.3: covered about evenly across the spectrum
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention Barack Obama. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
4 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as Barack Obama, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features Barack Obama most, per source.
- VoxIslamophobia is getting louder. Why isn’t the response?
- The New York TimesHow Obama and Trump Made their Cases in Dueling Midterm Speeches
- NBC NewsTrump and Obama rally supporters in key battleground states ahead of midterms
- The GuardianObama rallies rapturous Michigan crowd for El-Sayed: ‘He’ll finish the job we started’
- ABC NewsWATCH: Obama, Trump rally in battleground state Michigan
- CNBCObama, in Ohio, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
- The AtlanticBarack Obama Looks Left
- AxiosTrump once questioned Obama's citizenship. Now Obama is speaking out for Ilhan Omar.
- NPRMorning news brief
- PoliticoObama to campaign with El-Sayed and Benson in Michigan
- BloombergObama Blasts ‘Spineless Congress’ in Push for Democrat El-Sayed
- PBS NewsHourObama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
- SemaforObama cuts ad in Mississippi Senate race
- The Hill'Cheesecake Factory': Obama trashes Trump despite numerous failures
- TangleThe Ilhan Omar investigation.
- UPI'Chaos and cruelty': Obama says Trump is responsible for rising costs
- NewsNationTrump, Obama campaign for rival Senate candidates in Michigan
- CBS NewsTrump, Obama on campaign pushes as Democrats poised to take the House, CBS News poll shows
- Washington ExaminerObama is wrong that war has made Iran stronger. He’s right that it’s made the US weaker.
- The Washington TimesTrump, Obama throw punches at each other in Senate election brawl
- ReasonObama Campaigns for Abdul El-Sayed as Republicans Sound the Alarm
- Fox BusinessBessent compares Obama library to 'Darth Vader's tomb' after ex-president criticized White House renovations
- The Free PressThe Democratic Case Against Abdul El-Sayed
- The Wall Street JournalOpinion | Obama’s Dangerous Mideast Words
- New York PostObama’s ‘Saddam Hussein’s Cheesecake Factory’ jab at Trump comes back to bite him: ‘Guy built himself a wizard prison’
- The Daily CallerEditor Daily Rundown: Obama Defends Abdul El-Sayed Against ‘Radical’ Label
- The Daily WireObama Gushes Over El-Sayed’s ‘Big Guns’ In Final Stretch Before Midterms
- NewsmaxObama to Stump for Ossoff, Bottoms in Georgia
- Fox NewsObama compares Trump's White House renovations to 'Saddam Hussein opening a Cheesecake Factory' at Ohio rally
- BreitbartObama Warns Democrats Not to Get Complacent: 'We Could End Up Losing' Races We're Leading
All articles
Every article that mentions Barack Obama, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.