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WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012 In the morning, the president will depart from Camp David en route Boca Raton, Florida. The departure from Joint Base Andrews will have out-of-town travel pool coverage and the arrival at Palm Beach International Airport will be open…

(The Root) — Join CSE, the Madyun Group and The Root in Washington, D.C., tonight as we watch President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney go head-to-head during the third and final round of presidential debates, leading up to Election Day on Nov. 6. (The Root is also hosting a debate watch event at the Aloft…

On Monday, President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney will have one of their last chances to attract voters, in the final presidential debate. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry hopes that the discussion — which will no doubt swirl around the president’s characterization of the events in Benghazi, Libya — won’t be so much an argument focusing on who said…

George McGovern, 90, has died in his home state of South Dakota, according to CNN. McGovern, who served in both the Senate and the House, was famously against the Vietnam War and an advocate for agriculture and feeding the hungry, but more importantly he helped pave the way for the contemporary Democratic party.    While…

During last week’s presidential debate Mitt Romney took a question about after-college job placement and spun the answer into a declaration that single-parent families create gun violence. And while many viewers shook their heads, Huffington Post contributor Monique Ruffin says that as a mom raising her child in the inner city by herself, she felt…

(The Root) — Abigail Fisher is a puppet, nothing more than the latest Pinocchio to Edward Blum’s Geppetto. She may be the vessel, but it is Blum who is the driving force of Fisher v. University of Texas — the current Supreme Court case that may lend the fatal blow to affirmative action for which…

Politicians saying one thing and meaning another is a reality during election time, but this week President Obama had enough of the status quo. In Fairfax, Va., on Friday, the POTUS targeted his rally speech at the flip-flopping history of Mitt Romney and diagnosed the former governor with a condition called Romnesia, reports CNN. “He told folks…

Pennsylvania became a battleground for voting rights this year. Despite a recent victory striking down the need for photo ID to vote, the fight’s not over. Now voting-rights advocates must work quickly in the next three weeks before Election Day to tell the state’s residents that they will not be turned away at the polls if they…

Mitt Romney continued his track record for awkward gender discussions during the second presidential debate this week. At one point in the town hall, a young woman asked each candidate about the pay disparity between men and women, and Obama answered the question while addressing contraception and family issues. Romney, on the other hand, managed…