Six days before Election Day, with President Barack Obama returning to the campaign trail after taking a break to oversee relief efforts from Hurricane Sandy, two new polls show that African Americans, young adults, and first-time Latino voters will be critical to Obama’s re-election to the White House. This week, in the final stretch of […]
Valerie Jarrett, a senior strategist for the Obama campaign, isn’t paying much attention to the bombardment of media polls seven days before Election Day. What she does care about, Jarrett explained, is voter turnout on Nov. 6 – and the momentum that’s building in the African-American community. “I believe we will surpass the African-American turnout […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’m glad I voted on Sunday. Hurricane Sandy, a monster storm that is hammering the D.C. region with heavy rain and 90-mile-an-hour winds, forced the cancellation of early voting in D.C. and Maryland on Monday and Tuesday. “This is a serious, killer storm,” Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) said in news conference. […]
President Barack Obama plans to vote on Thursday — and he’s not alone. Two weeks before Election Day, with Obama leading by example, millions of Americans are already taking advantage of early voting opportunities in 32 states including Ohio, North Carolina, California, Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, Iowa and Washington, D.C.. With new polls showing the […]
Get ready for Round 3. The next slugfest between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is scheduled for Monday at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida when the candidates will spar about foreign policy issues. Monday’s debate, the final face-to-face debate before Election Day, will give Obama another chance to challenge Romney, dispel misconceptions about […]
The Obama swagger is back – and not a moment too soon. A feisty President Barack Obama seized control of a critical debate with Mitt Romney Tuesday, showing voters the grit, passion and leadership necessary to guide the nation through an unsteady economic recovery. In an overall contentious debate, Romney interrupted Obama on at least […]
The pressure is on. President Barack Obama took the day off from the campaign trail Monday to focus exclusively on his critical debate with Mitt Romney on Tuesday. It was a sensible decision. Obama needs the practice. Obama’s senior aides say the president will step up his game: He will be more assertive, more engaged […]
Vice President Joe Biden showed Americans some of that scrappy Scanton, Pennsylvania brashness Thursday night when he took Rep. Paul Ryan to the woodshed during the only vice presidential debate 26 days before Election Day. In the opening minutes of the debate, Biden pushed back after Ryan implied that the recent death of the U.S. […]
President Barack Obama must come out swinging in next week’s critical debate against Mitt Romney if he intends to win the race for the White House in four short weeks. No more professorial lectures. No more deep-in-the-weeds statistics. No more re-visiting the problems of four years ago. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Obama must deliver […]
For once, I agree with Ann Romney. I'm also concerned about Mitt Romney’s emotional fitness for the White House. "I think my biggest concern obviously would just be for his mental well-being," Ann Romney said in a startling admission during an interview last week with a Nevada television station. "I have all the confidence in […]
Mitt Romney is quietly plotting to move into the White House in January. Deep inside the Romney campaign, six weeks before Election Day, Romney’s transition to the Oval Office is being called “The Readiness Project,” which is designed to assemble a list of candidates for top White House jobs and offer a blueprint for Romney’s […]
Speaking before the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner, First Lady Michelle Obama implored the nation’s African-Americans to show up on Election Day with a sense of urgency. “Make no mistake about it, this is the march of our time, marching door to door, registering people to vote,” the First Lady said to applause […]