Politics

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…

(The Root) — The 2012 presidential election was historic, not just because of the re-election of the nation’s first black president but also because it became the first “meme” election. Over the course of the excruciatingly long campaign, the Internet responded to every noteworthy gaffe and unintentional revelation the candidates made by creating viral memes…

Writing at the Huffington Post, the Rev. Al Sharpton says that when we re-elected an African-American president, we chose to move forward. There’s no question that the 2012 election was a monumental victory for this president and for all those that fought tirelessly on the side of progress. But we must take this victory and…

The Washington Post‘s Eugene Robinson explains what he says was the message sent by the millions of voters who re-elected President Obama. So much for voter suppression. So much for the enthusiasm gap. So much for the idea that smug, self-appointed arbiters of what is genuinely “American” were going to “take back” the country, as…