Politics
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Republican Endorsed 'Darkey' 'Massa' Song
From Obama effigies and hate speech to coded racial commentary and flat-out lies, this campaign season has had no shortage of bizarre, infuriating and downright insane political moments. As the presidential election approaches, we’re collecting them here for a special edition of our Crazy Talk series. We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried. Monday, Nov.…
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Obama's Day, Nov. 5: Campaigning in Wis., Ohio and Iowa
WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 In the morning, the President will deliver remarks at a campaign event on MLK Boulevard in Madison, Wisconsin. The President’s remarks will be open to pre-credentialed media. Later in the morning, the President will depart from Madison, Wisconsin…
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Where Voter-ID Laws May Decide the Election
(The Root) — If there are two words that still-angry Democrats use as shorthand to summarize all that went wrong in the 2000 presidential election, those words might just be “hanging chads.” But “hanging chads” may soon be joined by “voter-I.D. laws” as the catchphrases progressives use while playing the blame game after a disappointing…
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How Race Plays in the 2012 Election
Associated Press polls show that as the country’s first black president nears the end of his first term, anti-African-American sentiment is up across the nation. Effigies of the president and other targets were seen in North Carolina, and the stereotypes many blacks thought we’d outpaced, like the welfare queen, reappeared. Imani Perry parses these moments…
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Give Obama 4 More Years to Finish
Many of us remember the image of the Rev. Jesse Jackson crying during President Obama’s victory speech in 2008. The civil rights activist put pen to paper for the Guardian to rally the president’s supporters. Obama has done the best he can, and it’s been good work, Jackson writes. So yes, when President Obama took office,…
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The Divided States of America
According to Touré, co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, Tuesday’s election boils down to two choices: President Obama, the cool guy who understands your problems but failed to fix them all in four years, and Mitt Romney, the Mad Men-esque guy who might fix your problems but doesn’t care about you. But what really worries the…
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MHP: Why Women Must Vote
According to MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, 76 laws limiting abortion were passed in 2012. Women, especially those who understand the importance of women’s health, therefore must vote. During an MSNBC election special entitled “Why Women Matter,” Harris-Perry spoke with Sandra Fluke, the woman verbally attacked by Republican pundit Rush Limbaugh earlier this year, and others…
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Obama and Romney in Dead Heat, Poll Shows
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…
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Belligerence at the Polls
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…
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What's Really at Stake on Tuesday Is Progress
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…