High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! PUMA ("People United Means Action") was a political action committee in the United States that opposed the Democratic Party leadership and the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2008 presidential election. PUMA began as an effort of supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who believed that Clinton should have been the Democratic nominee. According to PUMA, "We protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters."