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*A super PAC ad running Ohio hopes it can woo African American voters with a new ad suggesting their loyalty to the Democratic Party is misguided, and that they should vote Republican because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, too. [Watch below.] According to Salon, the Empower Citizens Network has an ad in the Columbus area [...]
*Both Obama and Romney have been making a big push to register voters during the past few months, says BCNN1.com. And the Rev. Anthony Evans said it is going to be a very difficult election for Obama in a time when every single vote matters, due to high black unemployment figures, opposition to the war [...]
*Not that it’s totally their fault, but conservatives fight an uphill battle. When I teach my history course I generally define conservatives as those who want appreciated the way society worked in years past. Conservatives would like to stop the changes taking place in United States or change things back to former versions of our [...]
*There are many conservatives (Mitt Romney) that are clueless when it comes to hiding the racist rhetoric that is at the core of their beliefs. They are sometimes so completely involved in their need to be right, they let some things slip. But not Ann Coulter! She says what she means and means what she [...]
*What the heck is going on in the GOP camp? More ridiculous attacks against the president are surfacing and once again, they are baseless and have no credibility. The Republicans are using anything they can in a desperate race for the presidency. Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) is the father to children of African American, Hispanic, [...]
*President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign and supporting committees brought in more than $114 million last month – the first time the incumbent has outraised his opponent, Gov. Mitt Romney, since April. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Obama’s Campaign Manager Jim Messina announced the figure for August late Sunday night, reports CNN.com. Romney’s campaign brought in [...]
*An attempt to change part of the Democratic Party Platform at the last minute on Wednesday lead to an awkward moment on the convention floor. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] In video sure to end up in GOP television ads, Democrats tried to reinstate a reference to God and the identification of Jerusalem as the [...]
*Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a former Republican who served as governor from 2007 to 2011, endorsed President Obama for reelection on Sunday and will speak at the Democratic convention in Charlotte next week, according to ABC News. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Crist wrote in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed that the president is [...]
*The House has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, the first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting Cabinet official. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Politico reports: The vote was 255-67, with 17 [...]
*A Warner Bros. shareholder has accused the studio of allowing Morgan Freeman to co-opt a press tour for the studio’s “Dolphin Tale” in order to push his political agenda rather than the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The subject came up Tuesday during Time Warner’s annual shareholder’s meeting at the Steven J. Ross Theater [...]
*House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida. Florida’s law, which allows residents to use force in response to an attack without first having to retreat, has come under scrutiny after the nationally-polarizing death of teenager Trayvon Martin. George Zimmermann, a neighborhood watch [...]
*CNN is reporting that interest in the Trayvon Martin shooting death is sharply divided along partisan and racial lines, according to a new study by Pew Research Center. Far more Republicans (56%) than Democrats (25%) say there has been too much coverage of Martin’s death, according to Pew, which surveyed a “nationally representative sample of [...]
*As political pundits continue to dissect Clint Eastwood’s Super Bowl commercial for Chrysler, which has been accused of supporting President Obama’s decision to bail out America’s auto-industry, the Libertarian actor says he has no “affiliation” with the current administration – or any politician or party, for that matter – and has donated his salary to [...]
*The excuses some Democrats give for their chill toward backing President Obama’s reelection bid would fill up a legal pad. He’s made much too nice with the GOP. He’s put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. He hasn’t pushed aggressively enough for a full blown FDR style jobs program. He let Wall Street [...]
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Dems Freak Repubs Out with Biden ‘Chains’ Quip (or Gaffe?) – VIDEO
*It’s gettin’ hot in heah! The race for the White House is starting to get a little more interesting. Both sides have amped up the rhetoric. But it seems that, as usual, the Republicans have shown they can dish it, but can’t take it. For instance, Vice President Joe Biden sparked a campaign commotion Tuesday, [...]