Move over Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year’s race for the White House. Shifting demographics have President Barack Obama fighting for another win in this Southern state four years after he became the first Democratic presidential nominee to carry Virginia in more than four decades. Republican rival Mitt […]
How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. Yet here it is: Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, an African-American and a white Mormon, representatives of two groups and that have endured oppression to carve out a place in […]
Independent groups favoring Mitt Romney already are launching TV advertisements for the general election in competitive states. And that’s providing political cover against President Barack Obama’s well-financed campaign while Republican Romney works to rebound from a bruising and expensive nomination fight. Some conservative organizations also are planning expensive get-out-the-vote efforts to benefit Romney in key […]
Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager “rubber stamp” for conservative Republicans in Congress and an agenda to cut taxes for the rich, reduce spending on education and Medicare and enhance power that big banks and insurers hold over consumers. […]
Just several hours after Mitt Romney accused President Obama of politicizing the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, the GOP presidential candidate was at a New York City event with former mayor Rudy Guiliani — marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death. Romney was campaigning with Giuliani at the firehouse where the city set […]
Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama shouldn’t use the killing of Osama bin Laden as fodder for negative campaigning. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke to reporters after visiting a New York City fire house that lost 11 men in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Romney was joined by Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor […]
Once a moment of national unity, the political battle over Osama bin Laden’s death intensified Monday as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to minimize the role President Barack Obama has carved out for himself in killing the terrorist leader. The president’s re-election campaign has raised questions about Romney’s willingness to assassinate the mastermind […]
Leave it to Ann Coulter and the like to conquer the ever-vexing issue of race relations, unequivocally internalize the volcanic plight of blacks and other minorities everywhere, rather than simplistically merge theories relative to both to the point of irrefutable resolution— all in a matter of a less than a minute TV sound bite. In […]
Yesterday, President Barack Obama officially announced his intentions to run for re-election in 2012. In light of all the turmoil going on around the world, he did it quietly, without fanfare. So, in between re-capping the foolishness of Sunday night’s “Celebrity Apprentice” and commemorating the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, we […]
organized by Chairman Roslyn M. Brock, the NAACP has sponsored its annual Leadership 500 Summit that promotes a civic agenda for black professionals and “emerging leaders” in the modern-day civil rights movement. “This year’s Leadership 500 Summit is particularly important as the political campaign season begins; the baton of leadership is passing to the next […]
Sen. Marco Rubio outlined his vision Wednesday of a more muscular American foreign policy, the latest salvo in his effort to elevate his profile as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his search for a running mate. The Florida Republican’s half-hour speech at the centrist Brookings Institution came four weeks after he endorsed Romney and […]
Today in five states, primaries will be taking place in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. There are many who have been and continue to be concerned about the voter ID laws passed in over 31 states primarily over the past three years that are requiring every voter to have a state-issued ID. […]
