Politics

Tuesday’s presidential race may be the closest in history, reports the Wall Street Journal. According to the latest poll from Wall Street Journal/NBC News, President Obama and Mitt Romney are nearly tied in the fight for voters, and both hit their final campaign stops to rally their supporters.  The two candidates enter the final stage…

The 2012 presidential election is extremely close, with President Obama and Mitt Romney running nearly neck and neck according to a new NBC poll, and that pressure has reached the voting booth. According to the Huffington Post, voters in North Carolina during the last two weeks experienced harassment from “poll watchers” and campaign volunteers as…

Mitt Romney’s missing backbone puts Americans at risk, writes Colbert I. King in the Washington Post. Looking at the candidate’s penchant for flip-flopping on issues like health insurance and the auto industry, King fears that like President Andrew Johnson and hopefuls like Barry Goldwater before him, Romney will be detrimental to the progress America has…

If New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow has his way, Mitt Romney will be No. 2 at the polls come Tuesday. In his latest piece, the journalist lays into the Republican candidate’s performance during the election by listing each of the former governor’s strengths and how they’ve now become weaknesses. 1) The economy continues…

During the 2012 presidential race, newspapers, news channels and political radio jocks have painted President Obama and Mitt Romney into two corners: big government and small government, respectively. Now, suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, New York City desperately needs help from FEMA, a government agency, which Romney and running mate Paul Ryan pledged…

With Nov. 6 fast approaching, the presidential race is still tight. In the battleground state of Ohio, President Obama holds a six-point lead over his opponent, Mitt Romney, according to a new NBC News poll, which says that 51 percent of likely voters would re-elect the president. But in the South, the competition remains fierce. And…

(The Root) — Why is California’s attorney general stumping for President Obama in the battleground state of North Carolina in the last days of a contentious presidential campaign? “One, because I’m one of the national co-chairs for the campaign,” she told The Root, “and two, because the outcome of the election in North Carolina will…

(Special to The Root) — No matter what you thought about his policies and proposals, it was hard not to be proud of what Barack Obama accomplished in 2008. It took centuries of struggle, but seeing a black man become president of the United States was as powerfully symbolic as it was unthinkable only a…

(The Root) — Last week President Obama made history yet again. “This is the first time a president’s ever early voted; it’s pretty exciting,” Obama told NBC News in Chicago recently as he cast his ballot in person before Election Day. To attract more citizens to the polls, both he and Republican opponent Mitt Romney…