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DNC director to be next South Africa ambassador

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theGRIO REPORT - Patrick Gaspard, who has held high level positions in politics including his current post as executive director of the Democratic National Committee, will soon be offered a new assignment...
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Mayor Anthony Foxx, of Charlotte, N.C., speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

theGrio's 100: Anthony Foxx leading in the New South

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theGRIO's 100 - Anthony Foxx is the mayor of Charlotte and considered a rising political star not only in the state but nationally...
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First lady Michelle Obama walks into an awards ceremony during an awards ceremony for the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in the East Room at the White House on November 19, 2012 in Washington, DC. The first lady talked about the importance of afterschool and out of school arts and humanities education and presented awards recognizing programs across the country that benefit underserved youth. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Poll: Michelle Obama favored for Illinois Senate seat

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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...
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In this March 10, 1969 file photo, Rosalie Bryant holds her two year old son, Gregory Michael as she talks to Senators George McGovern, D-S.D., right and Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., in Immokalee, Fla..(AP Photo/Jim Bourdier, File)

How McGovern opened up the Democratic party

Adam Howard
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...
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Artur Davis appears in pro-Romney commercial.

Artur Davis appears in anti-Obama ad

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
VIDEO - Former Obama ally, Democrat-turned-Republican Artur Davis, has appeared in advertisement supporting Mitt Romney for the 2012 election....
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President Barack Obama addresses a campaign event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center September 9, 2012 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Working with the momentum from this week's Democratic National Convention, Obama is on a two-day campaign swing from one side of Florida to the other on the politically important I-4 corridor. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Liberals stand firmly behind Obama

Perry Bacon Jr.
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...
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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm didn’t get her due at the DNC

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - It is not at all a stretch to say that President Obama owes a debt to Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 campaign...
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Obama's non-white advantage

Perry Bacon Jr.
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...
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President Barack Obama addresses a campaign event at the Palm Beach County Convention Center September 9, 2012 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Obama’s 5 biggest challenges to maintaining his lead

Perry Bacon Jr.
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...
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CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 06: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. President Barack Obama claps on stage after accepting the nomination for president during the final day of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 6, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The DNC, which concludes today, nominated U.S. President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

Obama DNC speech gets 35.7 million viewers

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NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama can beat rival Mitt Romney as a television draw, but can't eclipse his old self...
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