(Huffington Post) — If the pollsters are correct, on November 2 we are likely to elect people to both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives who want to privatize Social Security, end unemployment compensation, repeal civil rights legislation and health care reform, ignore climate change, allow big corporations to secretly finance candidates […]
(New York Times) — A flood of black voters in North Carolina’s Eighth Congressional District two years ago helped Barack Obamabecome the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry this state since Jimmy Carter and lifted the party’s Congressional challenger, Larry Kissell, to victory. Without Mr. Obama atop the ticket this year, Mr. Kissell and a number of […]
(New York Times) — The president and fellow Democrats have taken a page from the Republican playbook. They’re unabashedly using racial-solidarity politics to animate voters. In this case, the Democrats’ appeal is to black voters, the most unwavering portion of President Obama’s base, and the message is simple: The president is under attack, and black […]
Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter and Adrian Fenty have been accused of not being black enough. Are they taking the black vote for granted or just embracing a universal approach?
(Fox News) — House Republicans, eager to prove that they are not the same party that got tossed out of power in 2006, launched their “America Speaking Out” communications initiative at a Tuesday morning press conference in the unofficial home of the First Amendment, the Newseum in Washington, DC. They say the program is a […]