2014 Midterm Elections

    A rep for the Republican National Committee is calling out the NAACP for not supporting Black conservatives in the 2014 midterm elections. RNC…

What President Barack Obama needs now is a very thick olive branch. For the next two years, Obama will likely resort to a little-used strategy to manage the Republican take-over of Congress: the art of compromise. Now that Republicans control the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, Obama is already planning to meet […]

      Michael Eric Dyson is musing about what keeps White people below a certain tax bracket voting for politicians that don’t care about…

  Governor Nikki Haley appointed South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott to his position in 2012 after former Senator Jim DeMint stepped down. On Tuesday, Scott was elected into the senatorial seat and became the first Black senator voted into office since the Reconstruction Era. Scott is also the first Black person to serve in […]

South Carolina’s Tim Scott defeated Democratic challenger Joyce Dickerson Tuesday night to become the first African American senator to win election in the South since Reconstruction. RELATED: New…

For iPhone:   Ken Smukler, the President of Infovoter is back on the Tom Joyner Morning Show with the results of the mid term elections.. He touches on what happened at the polls and who’s to blame for the Republicans winning the House. Click the link above to hear the details! Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Riding a powerful wave of voter discontent, resurgent Republicans captured control of the Senate and tightened their grip on the House Tuesday night in elections certain to complicate President Barack Obama’s final two years in office. The Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, dispatched Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky after a […]

With Election Day just days away, the 2014 Midterm Elections have become the hot-button issue for pundits and analysts alike. In regards to the Black…

WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s Senate races have featured astronomical spending, ceaseless attack ads and innumerable slaps at a president who’s not on the ballot. Largely missing, however, are ideas on how best to govern the nation. Even with control of the Senate at stake, serious discussions about deficit spending, climate change, immigration, Social Security’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claiming new momentum 48 hours before polls open across America, Republicans on Sunday assailed President Barack Obama in a final weekend push to motivate voters as Democrats deployed their biggest stars to help preserve an endangered Senate majority. GOP officials from Alaska to Georgia seized on the president’s low approval ratings, which […]

Dear Black People: This is a critical time in our history. Vote Tuesday or be prepared to face serious consequences. Many polls show that Democrats are in trouble. President Barack Obama’s 40 percent job approval rating in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the lowest of his career – and more than half of […]

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has edited a Black woman into his campaign ad in an attempt to win back some of the minority vote. The…