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Mitt Romney and the Politics of Disrespect
(The Root) — It has been a long and tortuous two weeks since the Republicans first began doing the happy dance and attaboying each other after the first presidential debate. Their guy, Mitt Romney, had whipped that other guy like he owned him. The polls were indicating that Big Mo was on their side. And…
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Poor Minority Schools Lack Student Media
Overall, 33% Have Online Component, Study Finds High schools that don’t have their own student media “are largely poor and have high minority populations, often depriving the students of a vital educational opportunity,” the University of Kansas reported Wednesday. Moreover, “While the Internet has steadily become a larger part of media over the past decade-plus,…
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Polls: Debate Produced Surge for Romney
“In the five days since Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was declared by many the winner of the first presidential debate, political watchers have waited to see if polls would shift in response to his performance. And, they did,” NPR reported on Monday. “Not only has the Gallup tracking poll tightened to a tie —…
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Why Unions Could Cost Obama the Campaign
(The Root) — While a teachers union in Chicago has dominated headlines nationwide because of a strike affecting 400,000 students, the union influence in another story with national implications went largely overlooked. This week, Michigan, which had been touted as a swing state this election cycle because of the discontentment of white working-class voters, lost…
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Clinton's Latest Moment in Black History
(The Root) — The same week that a controversial new article landed former President Clinton in the headlines for allegedly making a remark that could be interpreted as racially insensitive about President Barack Obama, the man once described as “the first black president” grabbed the front pages again, for possibly saving the Obama presidency. This…
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Leave Fact-Checking to the Reporters
“A few years back, the Los Angeles Times considered joining a runaway industry trend,” Erik Wemple wrote Friday for the Washington Post. “Everywhere you clicked on the political web, it seemed, someone was putting the drywall and paint on a stand-alone, cleverly branded fact-checking machine or at least some sort of discrete truth-outing posts. “.…
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RNC 2012: Expect the Usual Sound and Fury
(The Root) — When the Grand Old Party gathers this week in Tampa, Fla., during the peak of hurricane season, the politicians’ sound and the fury on the inside of the Convention Center may well match the wind and the fury of tropical storm Isaac on the outside. For three days, one blowhard Republican after…
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The GOP and White-Collar Welfare
(The Root) — The Romney-Ryan ticket suffers from pathological hypocrisy. On Monday, President Obama made a rare appearance in the White House pressroom and addressed false claims in a Mitt Romney campaign commercial that asserts Obama’s administration is turning back the clock on the welfare reform of 1996 by doing away with the requirement that…
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What's Obama Done for Black People? Nothing
(The Root) — Rick Santorum once said that John F. Kennedy’s 1960 address on religious freedom made him want to “throw up.” But with the notable exception of the former senator and onetime GOP presidential contender, it would be tough finding a Catholic American who’d look back on the tenure of our first Catholic president…
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Obama's Lesson From Cory Booker-gate
Make no mistake about it: Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker did his best on Meet the Press to throw President Barack Obama under the bus. Political pros don’t go on national TV and call their candidate “nauseating” by accident. And as a campaign surrogate who equated Obama’s attacks on businessman Mitt Romney’s business record with…