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Candidate walks back Rosa Parks 'gimmick' comment

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - During a debate response, Independent Mike Connelly implied Rosa Park's 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat to a white person was 'a gimmick'...
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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) speaks during a Tea Party Town Hall meeting February 8, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GOP rep already stingy on Sandy recovery funds

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Republican Iowa Representative Steve King has said he doesn't want to sign off on federal Hurricane Sandy disaster relief unless a specific plan on how the money will be spent is set in place.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) speaks during a debate with U.S. President Barack Obama as moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS (R) looks on at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University on October 22, 2012 in Boca Raton, Florida. The focus for the final presidential debate before Election Day on November 6 is foreign policy. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Final presidential debate exposes real Romney

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - Now, after the final debate, we learn that the Romney target marketing department believes its newest customer, the undecided voter, would like world peace
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Obama and Third Debate

Final debate: Obama puts Romney on defensive

Perry Bacon Jr.
ANALYSIS - The final side-by-side between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama was at times not really a debate...
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Florida debate

Obama, Romney to debate foreign policy in Boca Raton in final debate

Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - For months the one reliable constant for Barack Obama was the public's approval of his handling of foreign policy and terrorism. Al-Qaida was on the run, he would say. The war in Iraq was over. Bin Laden was dead. Crowds cheered and national polls showed a majority in the country stood with him...
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Testy Debate

The testiest presidential debate ever?

Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Maybe it's a cliché to say the gloves came off in Tuesday's presidential debate. But then again, maybe not, since the candidates sometimes looked like they were actually about to start boxing.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama both talk the audience during a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York. During the second of three presidential debates, the candidates fielded questions from audience members on a wide variety of issues. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Obama buys 'binders full of women' Twitter ad

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - Mitt Romney's 'binders full of women' comment from last night's presidential debate trending all over the Internet. Even the Obama campaign has jumped on the band wagon with a Twitter ad:..
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Michelle Obama and Ann Romney both wore pink

Michelle Obama and Ann Romney wear matching 'pepto-pink' to debate

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
First lady Michelle Obama wore a 'pepto-pink' suit -- as it was described by style watchers on Twitter -- to the second presidential debate last night.
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President Barack Obama (L) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) participate in the second presidential debate, the only held in a townhall format, at the David Mack Center at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012, moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama beats Romney in alpha male match-up

Joy-Ann Reid
OPINION - If there was any doubt that President Barack Obama came to Hofstra University ready to rumble, it was dispelled in the first few minutes of the debate...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) walks away from U.S. President Barack Obama (R) after a town hall style debate at Hofstra University October 16, 2012 in Hempstead, New York. During the second of three presidential debates, the candidates fielded questions from audience members on a wide variety of issues. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Images)

How Obama won the second debate

Perry Bacon Jr.
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama followed the model of his vice-president in his second debate with Mitt Romney, repeatedly accusing his opponent of giving misleading answers and forcefully rebutting Romney's claims rather than explain his own policies...
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