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By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Although youth are credited with helping President Obama defeat Mitt Romney on Election Day, the president would not have carried that bloc of voters if Black youth had not supported him in overwhelming numbers, according to exit polls. Obama carried the 18-24 age group over Romney 60 [...]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Both President Obama and Mitt Romney, his Republican challenger, have rejected an invitation from the NAACP and other Black groups, to participate in a forum to discuss issues important to African-Americans. In late September, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored [...]
By Matt Spetalnick and Mark Felsenthal | Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Taking a detour from the campaign trail to the world stage, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to counter attacks on his foreign policy record from Republican rival Mitt Romney on everything from the Iranian nuclear standoff to U.S.-Israeli [...]
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a private discussion with millionaire donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stereotyped those who voted for President Obama in 2008 as “victims” who want and expect a free ride from the federal government. The surreptitiously recorded video of Romney’s unusually candid remarks was obtained by [...]
By Patricia Zengerle | Reuters – Mon, Sep 17, 2012 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s lead over Republican Mitt Romney narrowed to 5 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday, from a high of seven points in the week after the Democratic National Convention. With just 50 days [...]
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief CHARLOTTE, N.C. (NNPA) – Judging from the recently-concluded Republican and Democratic conventions, the question of who will be inaugurated as president in January may turn on how voters answer a question posed by Ronald Regan in his 1980 debate with Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter: [...]
By Cash Michaels Special to the NNPA from The Wilmington Journal WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) – Rep. James Clyburn, the third most powerful member of Congress, charges that from the moment President Obama assumed office, Republicans in Congress placed party politics ahead of the interests of the nation. In an interview last week [...]
by Julie Pace, Associated Press | September 4, 2012 at 11:18 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michelle Obama’s message: President Barack Obama is just like you. “Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it,” the first lady told the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday in an address intended to reassure voters that her husband [...]
By Nadra Kareem Nittle Special to the NNPA from the Maynard Institute – a News Analysis Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that Barack Obama was Black. Have his blackness and [...]
by Melba Newsome | August 28, 2012 at 3:39 PM In 2008, then-congressman Artur Davis of Alabama gave an effusive speech to second Barack Obama’s nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate, saying that as president, Obama would “lead and inspire the free world.” Four years later, Davis is on a convention roster again. But now, [...]
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