COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — President Barack Obama enters the final hours of the 2012 campaign with an edge in the hunt for the 270 electoral votes needed to win and more ways to reach that magic number. Yet the race is remarkably close in at least six states that could go either way, giving Republican […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is making an unannounced stop in Cleveland. Biden voted Tuesday morning in his home state of Delaware and then boarded a plane for Chicago, where he's joining President Barack Obama to await the election returns. An hour after takeoff, the small group of reporters traveling with the vice […]
If you have reports of trickery, call 1-866-MY-VOTE-1. — – In Toledo, Ohio, that’s Lucas County, Ohio, the poll location at MLK Boulevard did not open on time. Apparently a security guard was not there to open it up. -In Hennepin County, Virginia a machine changed votes from Obama to Romney and in Hennepin CH […]
Before joining her husband in Iowa for his last campaign stop on Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama made an appeal to voters in the swing state of Florida. “We are going to get this done,” she told the crowd in Orlando Park Monday night, reminding supporters on the eve of the election that it’s “all […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Leaving his re-election prospects in the hands of voters, President Barack Obama congratulated rival Mitt Romney "on a spirited campaign" and declared he's "confident we've got the votes to win." After closing down his campaign late Monday with a nostalgia-filled rally in Iowa, Obama went back to exhorting his supporters during a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Challenges at the polls, voter confusion and potential problems with provisional ballots in many key states are among the top Election Day concerns for voting rights groups and the presidential campaigns themselves. Voting-rights advocates point with particular concern to the tea party-linked True the Vote organization, which has pledged to dispatch thousands […]
BOCA RATON, Fla.: A century of wisdom at the polls After 102 years on this earth, after a life as an art teacher and a store owner, after seeing war and a Depression and presidents good and bad, Selma Friedman sees no reason to muffle her opinion. What does this election mean? She'll give you […]
Jeff Johnson on voting being our duty to the future more than an obligation to the past. – VOTE
Click here to listen to President Barack Obama's full interview with the TJMS. Today's the big day for President Barack Obama but that did not stop him from calling into the Tom Joyner Morning Show to urge people to get out and vote, remind them of the work he has done, and reassure people that […]
Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt have weighed in on one side, evangelist icon Billy Graham on the other as the four-state showdown over same-sex marriage reaches its Election Day conclusion with the potential for a historic breakthrough. Until now, same-sex marriage has been rejected in all 32 states that have held popular votes on the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two fierce competitors who've given their all, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney now yield center stage to voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come. After a grinding presidential campaign that packed suspense to the finish, Americans […]
NewsOne highlights 25 voters — ranging in age, gender, and celebrity — who explain why they are voting on Tuesday to re-elect President Barack Obama for a second term. Check it out here! 1. “The Affordable Care Act is saving my daughter’s life.” Stacey, Arizona 2. “Obama is for the vets. He helped us wind […]
