Politics

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NewsOne Now, Politics

Rick Klein, Political Director for ABC News, joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to analyze the political landscape in the final weekend before the 2014 midterm elections and discussed how vital minority votes are for the Democratic party to hold onto the Senate. Klein said, “… if the Obama coalition of voters, young voters, African American […]

Politics

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was right when she predicted earlier this month that a strict Texas voter ID law would prevent Americans from voting, the Huffington Post reports. RELATED: Congresswoman Barbara Lee: Celebrate Civil Rights on November 4th Ginsburg called the new measure an “unconstitutional poll tax” in a scathing six-page dissent […]

NewsOne Now, Politics

Many Democrats up for election this year are running away from President Barack Obama and are desperate for Black votes. In other instances, Democrats and Republicans are invoking race in their campaign ads to attract the Black vote. Who should African American voters support, the political party which seems to take the Black vote for granted or the […]

Politics

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court launched a series of attacks on the voting rights of all Americans.             The court allowed Texas’ controversial new voter ID law to stand, a decision that will restrict the voices of African Americans, Latinos, seniors, the poor, and students.   Since the Supreme Court overturned a key provision […]

You’ve read the reports: President Barack Obama is unpopular with the American public right now; so unpopular, in fact, that at a recent rally in Maryland, people in the crowd actually walked out on him while he was speaking. But were the early exits made in disrespect for our nation’s leader, as some accounts have suggested, […]

NewsOne Now, Politics

A special election investigation by Al Jazeera America and journalist Greg Palast uncovered a series of Republican lead anti-voter fraud actions that may be targeting millions of minorities. Republican officials in 27 states have launched a massive new campaign against voter fraud, using a computer name-matching system to claim that over 3 million citizens voted […]

Wisconsin has been a hotbed of political activity ahead of the November mid-term elections, especially with the legal happenings over a controversial voter ID law. Midterms have been typically under-attended by Black voters during the cycle, but President Barack Obama was able to stir up measurable interest after appearing in Milwaukee on Tuesday. SEE ALSO: NewsOne Minute: […]

NewsOne Now, Politics

Amazingly, a new poll shows that likely voters would prefer a Republican controlled Congress over a Democratic one. The Wall Street Journal/Annenberg Poll found that 52% of those polled favor a GOP run Capitol Hill while 41% favored a Democratic Capitol. “NewsOne Now” guest host Mo Ivory and the Straight Talk panel featuring Cornell William Brooks, President […]

UPDATED Friday, November 7, 2014, 6:43 p.m., ET – On Saturday President Barack Obama will announce his intention to nominate Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general, Associated Press is reporting. Earlier: With the recent announcement that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be stepping down, there has been rumblings in Washington about who his replacement would be. […]

Cross Post Now, Politics

Former president Jimmy Carter‘s grandson, Georgia state senator Jason Carter, is running for governor of the state, and he says we shouldn’t sleep on Nov. 4 just because no one is running for president. The types of races you find during mid-term elections, like governors’ races, are “where stuff gets done,” he told radio show […]

Dominic Adesanya (pictured), allegedly managed to jump over the “secured” White House fence on Wednesday and make it all the way to the North Lawn before he was nabbed by Secret Service agents, cuffed, and charged with four counts of resisting and unlawful entry and one count of making threats, according to CNN. SEE ALSO: Woman Fakes […]

Nation

President Barack Obama joined Rev. Al Sharpton on the “Keepin’ It Real With Rev. Al Sharpton” radio show to discuss why African Americans, who skew heavily Democrat, cannot afford to sit out this year’s election. He also addressed how he feels about Democrat politicians who don’t want to be seen with him on the campaign […]