Politics

(The Root) — For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And so today it seems almost serendipitous that the xenophobic campaign employed to undermine and delegitimize President Obama laid the very seeds of the GOP’s electoral demise on Nov. 6, 2012. Obama’s Electoral College victory of 332 to 206 was achieved because…

In a blog entry at Clutch magazine, Britni Danielle takes up a blogger’s complaint that President Barack Obama’s election-night depiction of his daughters as “beautiful” diminished their importance as girls and pandered to women. … In the President’s victory speech Tuesday night, Mr. Obama praised his family and told his daughters, “Sasha and Malia, before…

Worry over increasing government entitlement programs and a fear that they will lose the right to right to bear arms are just a few reasons Republican voters give for disliking today’s Democratic Party, Courtland Milloy writes in his Washington Post column. It’s deer hunting season in Virginia, and customers at Clark Brothers Guns in Warrenton…

The Daily News reports that Denise Helms, a 22-year-old California woman, is under investigation by the Secret Service after posting a racist Facebook rant about President Barack Obama’s re-election victory that mentioned his assassination. Denise Helms was apparently unaware when she posted the bigoted statement that threats against the President of the United States are…

(The Root) — I am certain at some point during the past 18 months you found yourself feeling like that kid riding in the backseat of the family car on what is supposed to be the “great adventure” to “someplace special.” But the only thing you can muster after about 15 minutes is, “Are we…

Cornel West has made it clear that he feels that President Obama should be more proactive in tackling issues like poverty and the prison-industrial complex. Some African Americans see the professor’s views as divisive, while others say he’s speaking truth to power. Recently, in an interview with Democracy Now, West and Tavis Smiley were asked…

There’s a line from The Social Network: “The Internet’s not written in pencil … it’s written in ink.” So when some Americans expressed their feelings about over President Obama’s re-election on Tuesday through racist tweets, it was easy to pinpoint the geographic sources of the messages. Mississippi and Alabama were the most vocal, reports the…

Drawing information from exit polls in 30 states, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow had a bit of fun with the facts. From the data, he discovered telling tidbits about the 2012 presidential election, including data showing that Romney won nine of the 11 former Confederate states. • My analysis of the 2008 election…

Though Election Day was Tuesday, Florida finally tallied their final results on Saturday. The state that has wrangled voting problems since 2000 completed their ballot counting early in the weekend, reports the Washington Post. The Florida Secretary of State’s Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt…

General David Petraeus resigned from his post on Friday, citing an extramarital affair. Now Slate has revealed that the person with whom he had the affair was his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Raised in North Dakota, the author, 39, lives with her husband in North Carolina with their two sons.   Sources tell me that President…