No matter what poll you look at – local or national, non partisan or politically leaning – there’s an obvious pattern: In the polls, there’s an upswing for President Barack Obama and a downward spiral for his challenger, former-Governor Mitt Romney. With only a couple weeks left in the election, instead of joining the chorus […]

When news began to spread like wildfire this past summer that recording artist and humanitarian Wyclef Jean (pictured) was all set to perform at the Republican National Convention, it apparently raised the brows of many of his fans…and Jean himself. This week, Jean spoke with Atlanta radio station Majic 107.5/97.5 recently, the former-Haitian to squelch the rumors that […]

Update 4:56 9/26/12: Politico’s Roger Simon told BuzzFeed that “The Stench” article he wrote was actually a satire. At least seven other major news outlets — NewsOne included — reported on the story, though we made it clear that it was, in fact, unverified. In this political climate his account was certainly not a stretch. […]

They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but this latest stunt from Cirque du Mittens is taking things to the extreme. Just days after being busted for saying that 47 percent of Americans are lazy freeloaders who will play the victim card on election day by voting for President Barack Obama and that he’d have a better chance of […]

Ever since GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney‘s slip showed this week, after a secret videotape emerged proving that he thinks at least 47 percent of Americans are freeloaders, many Republicans have been scrambling in desperation to change the narrative. Who’s up? Known White nationalist, anti-Semitic, and homophobe Pat Buchanan, who picked up where he left […]

Through all of the prevarications and posturing, there is one thing that remains true of GOP presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney. He has no problem changing positions as quickly and often as Bain Capital shuts down companies. His latest revisionist exploration into “He must think we’re stupid” territory, finds Mittens trying to fix the fall-out from […]

Nation, Politics

Mitt Romney quotes and sayings are all over the Internet these days—and for good reason. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is challenging Barack Obama for the most powerful office in the world. To the extent a person is defined by their words, we can learn a lot about Mitt Romney by the 10 quotes […]

Should Mitt Romney (pictured) be panicking? His campaign has reportedly decided to abruptly shift its strategy. With poll after poll unanimously showing an upswing for President Barack Obama, it has finally dawned on Team Romney that a White House bid built on largely dishonest damning of Obama while being disingenuous about his own vision for […]

Nation, Politics

How old is Mitt Romney? Mitt Romney is 65 years old. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee was born March 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan. Should Romney defeat President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election, the former Massachusetts governor would become the fourth-oldest president-elect in U.S. history, after Ronald Regan, William Henry Harrison, and James […]

UPDATE Sept. 18 4:41 P.M. (EST): Full video of Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comments have been released in two YouTube clips. The GOP presidential nominee is under fire for telling well-heeled campaign donors at a recent fundraiser that his job is not to worry about “those people,” referring to voters who voted for President Barack […]

NewsOne Original, Politics

The major headline in most newspapers and media outlets was the notion that the national poverty rate remained virtually unchanged from the previous year. While millions of Americans continue to struggle to find work and provide for their families, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on what has actually transpired under President Obama’s […]

Politics

According to a recent Yahoo and Esquire poll, if President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney decided to step outside, Obama would easily mop the floor with the former Bain Capital CEO. RELATED: Good News! Obama Ahead Of Romney In Five Swing States While 20 percent had no opinion on the matter, 58 percent of respondents […]