Politics
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Pregnant Woman Votes En Route to Hospital
Twenty-one-year-old Galicia Malone wasn’t going to let anything — even childbirth — stop her from casting a vote this morning. She swung by her polling place midlabor on her way to a local hospital, NBC Chicago reports. Cook County Clerk David Orr said Malone’s contractions were five minutes apart when she showed up around 8:30…
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Watch This: Obama's Emotional Final Appeal
Sounding hoarse and tired but determined, President Barack Obama delivered his final campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday night, announcing, “I’ve come back to Iowa one more time to ask for your vote.” “Help us finish what we started, because this is where our movement of change began,” he told the battleground state crowd.…
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Twitter: Ann Romney a 'Prettier First Lady'
(The Root) — Recall some of the most disturbing criticisms of Barack Obama’s presidency that you’ve heard over the past four years. Not the ones about his policy positions, but the racially coded attacks about laziness and anger; the out-of-control, totally false allegations about socialism; and the line-crossing assaults on the first lady’s physical appearance.…
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Obama's Day, Nov. 6: Campaign Event in Chicago
WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012 In the evening, the president will deliver remarks at a campaign event at McCormick Place, Lakeside Center in Chicago, Illinois. The vice president, the first family and Dr. Biden will also attend. The president’s remarks will be open…
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5 Big Things at Stake This Election
Election Day conversation will understandably be dominated by one major question: Which presidential candidate will accumulate enough electoral votes to be declared the winner? But beyond Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney, and even beyond the federal, state and local candidates, voters will decide on 174 state ballot questions with implications for everything from in-state tuition…
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Live From Battleground Ohio
(The Root) — Tuesday, Nov. 6, 9:30 EST: James Davis missed the line at his polling place in University Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, simply because he arrived around 7:45 a.m., after the morning rush, which peaked around 7 a.m. The only thing hindering his entrance into the University Heights library was a stream…
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President Obama Is Our Only Choice
Earl Ofari Hutchinson makes the case at the Huffington Post that President Obama has accomplished his task with skill, dignity and grace. In 40-plus years of political observing, analysis, watching, and of course voting, I have never publicly endorsed a presidential candidate. I have zealously maintained the hard firewall that I believe should exist between…
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Erasing Jim Crow Not So Easy in Alabama
(The Root) — Jim Crow, that feisty fictitious character that symbolized segregation in the South for decades, is alive, well and on the ballot in Alabama in Tuesday’s general election. And depending on whom you ask, he may just win again. Since 1901 the Alabama Constitution has included language that requires separate schools for whites…
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We Need 4 More Years of Michelle
Writing at Ebony, Michaela Angela Davis explains how the first lady sold her on Barack Obama, and why she thinks we all need to see the two of them in the White House for another term. … Ms. Obama presented herself like a free woman, for real. She was free to be smart, free to…
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The End of the Southern Strategy?
(The Root) — So much of this election cycle has focused on political maneuvers straight out of the Jim Crow era: voter-ID laws designed to suppress minority votes and race-baiting, ad hominem attacks on the president that have sought to frame him outside the American mainstream — which is sadly still considered white by default,…