NC man gets prison time for tweeting Obama threats
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man is headed to prison for threatening President Barack Obama through Twitter during the 2012 Democratic National Convention...
Michelle Obama's Tracy Reese dress from DNC now available
SLIDESHOW - A version of the floral jacquard print dress is now available on the Tracy Reese web site and at various retail outlets that carry the designer...
Poll: Michelle Obama favored for Illinois Senate seat
theGRIO REPORT - Although Mrs. Obama has never indicated any interest in a political career, a new survey from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling firm suggests that Illinois voters would warm up the idea...
How McGovern opened up the Democratic party
theGRIO REPORT - George McGovern is far too often ridiculed for his landslide presidential defeat forty years ago. But he was in some ways an unsung hero of the civil rights moment...
Blacks ♥ Bill Clinton?
theGRIO REPORT - The strain between Clinton and African-American Democratic activists is now viewed as a blip in a strong relationship that has lasted for two decades...
Liberals stand firmly behind Obama
theGRIO REPORT - For almost the entire year, the president has had sustained backing from liberals, even those who spent much of Obama's first three years casting him as insufficiently assertive in pushing for progressive causes and against congressional Republicans...
Shirley Chisholm didn’t get her due at the DNC
OPINION - It is not at all a stretch to say that President Obama owes a debt to Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 campaign...
Obama's non-white advantage
theGRIO REPORT - A new CNN/ORC poll illustrates the stronghold President Obama has over the quarter of the electorate that is composed of minority voters: he leads among non-whites 88 percent to 11 percent...
Can likeability win the election for Obama?
OPINION - When it comes to elections, does being likable make you winnable? President Obama will have the opportunity to put this to the test...
Obama’s 5 biggest challenges to maintaining his lead
theGRIO REPORT - Polls show President Obama with a narrow, but persistent lead over Mitt Romney as the campaign hits its final legs, and even Romney advisers are acknowledging privately their candidate is the underdog...
