Politics
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Romney Could Be a Postracial President
By many accounts, the American electorate has become more polarized during the 2012 presidential contest, with race forming one of the many fault-lines dividing voters. We decided to look at what might happen to race relations in America under a second Obama term, versus a Mitt Romney administration, in a package that is also being…
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An Obama Win Will Improve Race Relations
By many accounts, the American electorate has become more polarized during the 2012 presidential contest, with race forming one of the many fault-lines dividing voters. We decided to look at what might happen to race relations in America under a second Obama term, versus a Mitt Romney administration, in a package that is also being…
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Voting for Obama Isn't 'Voting Black'
The Chicago Sun-Times’ John W. Fountain puts his choice to cast a ballot for the “best man for the job” in personal, historical and racial context. Why wouldn’t I, as a black man — as a bona fide democratic, red-blooded African American — vote for Obama? He is, after all, the “black” candidate, the one…
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Mayor Bloomberg Endorses Obama
In a surprise announcement, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today that, in light of climate-change concerns brought to the forefront by Hurricane Sandy, he’d decided to endorse President Obama for a second term, the New York Times reports. In 2008 Bloomberg, a political independent, declined to make an endorsement in the race for…
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Hurricane Sandy: Winds of Political Change?
(The Root) — The winds of change have come from an unlikely source. Near the end of a bitterly contested presidential election, Hurricane Sandy has offered a rare opportunity for bipartisan agreement and national unity. But it comes at a high cost. The sound and fury brings with it a death toll of more than…
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Obama's Day, Nov. 1: Campaigning in Wis., Nev. and Colo.
WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 In the morning, the President will depart from Washington, DC en route Green Bay, Wisconsin. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at Austin Straubel International Airport will be open press. Later in…
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Election 2012: Two Visions on Education
(Special to The Root) — In the day-to-day pre-election grind, it’s so easy to get bogged down in the 24-hour news cycle that we start to lose sight of what’s actually at stake in this presidential election. We simply can’t afford to do that this year, especially when two such different visions and plans for…
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Can Romney Recover From His Stance on FEMA?
Daily News blogger Zerlina Maxwell checks in on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s flip-flop concerning federal spending on disaster relief in light of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath. She determines that politically, he will have difficulty outrunning the eye of the storm. … Although he has flip-flopped already, in a response to a question about whether…