President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney don’t have much in common but they do have one shared interest today: collecting cash in California. Obama and Romney are in California this week to raise as much money as possible heading into the final 105 days of a campaign where both politicians are locked in […]
Campaigning in Florida this week, President Barack Obama shared his plan for creating jobs and told voters that Republican Mitt Romney does not have the compassion to lead the nation. Obama spoke to voters in Jacksonville and West Palm Beach on Thursday and plans to address residents in Fort Myers and Orlando on Friday. Florida […]
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. should take time to heal – and his critics should be patient. With the cacophony of negative noise and the political vultures circling, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has emerged as a voice of reason. She said, simply, that Jackson ought to have “the care and time he needs to get […]
Would you gladly welcome a Mormon into your family? Apparently some Americans still hold strong views about Mormons and with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney proudly boasting his longtime association with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormon religion is being scrutinized today perhaps more than ever. According to a new […]
One day after Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP national convention in Houston, he enraged many African-Americans by saying that if black people want more “free stuff” from government, they should vote for President Barack Obama. “I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this: if they want […]
Mitt Romney gave it his best shot – and got booed. “If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,” Romney said with a straight face as he addressed the NAACP's national convention Wednesday. “I want you to know that if I did not believe […]
President Barack Obama is skipping the NAACP’s annual convention this week in what some are calling a snub to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization at a time when the black unemployment rate has skyrocketed to 14.4 percent – twice the rate of whites. The decision to dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Houston on […]
President Barack Obama rolled through Ohio Thursday during a two-day bus tour where he promised voters that he'll create jobs for millions of unemployed Americans if he's re-elected to the White House. The president's bus tour to Ohio and Pennsylvania comes at a critical time in the campaign: several polls show Obama leading GOP rival […]
One week after U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel proudly claimed victory and said he’d been re-elected to a 22nd term in Congress, his once-commanding lead has now plunged to just three percentage points – 802 votes — and some New York Democrats are hoping for a recount. As the drama continues to unfold in one of […]
First Lady Michelle Obama made history Thursday when she took her fiery, campaign-style message of civil rights activism directly to the black church nearly four months before the November presidential election. “Much like they did 50 years ago, or 150 years ago, our laws still shape so many aspects of our lives: Whether folks are […]
In the so-called post-racial America where President Barack Obama was elected to the White House, African-Americans – and black male journalists in particular – must be careful about offering opinions concerning race, even if it’s true. Take Joe Williams, for example. Williams, a veteran black journalist who covers the White House for POLITICO, was suspended […]
Mitt Romney is not giving up on the black vote. The billionaire Republican nominee for president will address the NAACP’s national convention in July at a time when Romney is being attacked by the Obama campaign for being completely out of touch with many hard-working Americans, and particularly with the black community. Will Romney explain […]