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With many Democrats reeling over President Barack Obama‘s largely lackluster performance and Mitt Romney‘s tall tales, Senior Strategist David Axelrod, Policy Director James Kvaal, and Press Secretary Ben LaBolt sought to refocus the election with a press conference Thursday morning to discuss how Mitt Romney’s disingenuous remarks will shape the election discourse going forward as […]
A Philadelphia student alleges that her geometry teacher told her that her Romney T-shirt is akin to wearing a KKK sheet, NBC 10 Philadelphia reports. Samantha Pawlucy, a 16-year-old sophomore at Charles Carroll High School said that she wore a pink Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan T-shirt to school on Friday during the school’s no-uniform day. No […]
New video footage from a community forum in Philadelphia has emerged showing Lupe Fiasco (pictured) discussingthe importance of voting in local elections, further underscoring his controversial stance of not voting in presidential elections. RELATED: Lupe Fiasco Says ‘Yes’ To Voting At Philly Panel In the aftermath of the 2008 election, an important debate was spurred within […]
A 77-year-old New Jersey woman has been accused of shooting her husband of 54 years to death after allegedly suffering years of abuse at his hands, NBA 10 Philadelphia reports. Scroll down for news video SEE ALSO: Social Media Delivers Public Reactions In Real Time Fredericka Rosa (above) was charged with first-degree murder and a […]
The first presidential debate has been a highly anticipated event, and President Barack Obama’s performance left much to be desired. It’s not that he “failed” as a debater, because he’s never really succeeded (see: Obama/Clinton primary showdowns). So many of us weren’t exactly expecting raindrops on roses, or whiskers on kittens. It’s not even that […]
Can Mitt Romney turn a losing summer and so far lackluster fall around in a single debate performance? It’s a premise that’s been purposely peddled in punditry in an effort to build suspense for the first of three debates between the Republican presidential challenger and President Barack Obama. It makes more sense to promote the […]
10:30 PM EST: Obama says he hasn’t been a perfect president, but that he promised to help the middle class and he has. 10:23 PM EST: Romney on POTUS: As president, you’re entitled to your own plane, and your own house, but not your own facts. 10:22 PM EST: Romney first says America is […]
The 2012 Presidential debate schedule has been set. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will debate three times ahead of the November election, focusing on a different topic each time. In addition, Vice President Joe Biden will face off once against Congressman Paul Ryan, Romney’s running mate on the Republican ticket. The full debate schedule […]
Hey Mitt: You don’t know who I am nor would you give a single damn if you did given my place in our current tax bracket. But you and I both know that your campaign is about as hot in these streets as a cassette copy of “Please, Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em.” So in light […]
In a desperate attempt to get traction for their flailing candidate Mitt Romney, a conservative website resurfaced a five-year-old video of President Barack Obama praising his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Unfortunately for the right, the fact that the video was re-released to the public says more about the mind-set of some conservatives than the […]
Barack Obama has garnered up to 70 percent support among likely Latino voters, according to a new poll by CNN. Mitt Romney holds a meager 26 percent of that voting block’s support in comparison. SEE ALSO: Haiti’s Elephantitis Crisis Both campaigns have been fighting aggressively for this rapidly growing voting demographic that Obama won back […]
In one of the more high-profile cases of voter suppression ahead of the November presidential elections, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge has issued an injunction that blocks the state’s strict Voter ID law and effectively clears the way for voters to cast regular ballots without government-issued identification cards, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. RELATED: BREAKING: Pa. […]
