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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 6, 2012
Plus: Obama will lead at the polls "until Republicans get off work." Why would coded attacks on the president and his family stop on Election Day?
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 6, 2012
Beyond Obama vs. Romney, voters today will decide on state ballot questions with huge implications for marriage equality, the ability of eligible undocumented immigrants to afford college and even the legalization of marijuana.
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by Lynette Holloway onNovember 5, 2012
Campaign Crazy Talk: Republican endorsed "darkey" "massa" song. Plus: Bill O'Reilly on black Christians and Obama.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 2, 2012
The president went to Mars as a teen, he got a suspicious nose job and other allegations even sillier than the birth certificate "controversy."
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by Michael Skolnik onNovember 2, 2012
Global Grind's Michael Skolnik uses the story of a wheelchair-bound man's commitment to President Obama's re-election to emphasize that "anyone who can vote needs to vote."
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by John W. Fountain onNovember 2, 2012
The Chicago Sun-Times' John W. Fountain puts his choice to cast a ballot for the "best man for the job" in personal, historical and racial context.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 1, 2012
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the political independent cited climate change as a reason for his support of the president's re-election.
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by Michael H. Cottman onOctober 31, 2012
Obama Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett isn't paying much attention to polls as Election Day approaches because she is rightly more focused on voter turnout -- and the momentum building in the black community, Michael H. Cottman writes at BlackAmericaWeb.
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by Lynette Holloway onOctober 30, 2012
President Obama assures voters that he will dispatch lawyers if they experience problems at the polls.
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October 29, 2012
President Obama cancels a campaign event at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
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