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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has presided over a heyday for the gun industry despite predictions by the nation’s powerful gun lobby four years ago that he would be the ‘most anti-gun president in American history’…
He hasn’t pressed such an agenda, but gun owners still are afraid that, if re-elected, an Obama who wouldn’t have to face voters again would try to restrict firearms purchases.
Fears of a Democratic president taking office and issuing stricter gun control laws led to an initial spike in gun sales in 2008, giving gun dealers some of the highest profit margins they’ve ever seen. But even after it became clear Obama was not going to make gun control a priority as president, the industry has continued to do well.
ANALYSIS – With fewer than three weeks left, election-obsessed Americans in both parties have turned into 24/7 poll-watchers, reading every number for some sign that the election has turned decidedly for Mitt Romney or President Obama…
OPINION – We are living in the twilight of the great culture war — a forty-year battle over social issues that helped separate white working and middle class voters from their natural allies in the Democratic Party…
Ad spending in the presidential campaign has now topped $800 million and is on pace to reach or come close to $1 billion, according to an NBC analysis of data provided by ad-buying firm SMG Delta.
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.
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…
ANALYSIS – A strong performance by Mitt Romney in a debate almost two weeks ago helped shift the polls, showing the importance of these sessions in a close campaign like this one. Here’s what to watch for when the candidates meet at Hofstra University on Long Island in New York…
ANALYSIS – In Ohio, three surveys over the last week (CNN, NBC/WSJ/Marist and PPP) have shown Obama maintaining a small, but stable lead in a state that no Republican has ever been elected president without carrying…
theGRIO REPORT – Joe Biden seemed to watch everything President Obama did last week in his debate and do the exact opposite…
ANALYSIS – Many Democrats oppose the practice, and some of the key liberal voices in the country are lukewarm about it…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election campaign…
theGRIO REPORT – Mitt Romney is now effectively tied with President Obama in a series of polls released since last week’s presidential debate…
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama now trails Mitt Romney by four points among likely voters in the first major survey conducted since last week’s presidential debate…
OPINION – President Obama won in 2008 and has led Mitt Romney for much of the year in part because of his popularity with four key voting groups: blacks, Latinos, women and voters between ages 18 and 30…
theGRIO REPORT – If Obama wins this state, as he did in 2008, if may not be because of his policies, but rather demographic shifts that are reshaping Virginia, particularly its growth in Latinos and liberal-leaning people who work in Washington, D.C but live in Northern Virginia…
ANALYSIS – The sharp drop in the unemployment rate is a major political boon for President Obama, allowing him to shift attention from Mitt Romney’s strong performance on Wednesday night’s debate and buttressing the president’s case that his economic policies have been effective.
ANALYSIS – Mitt Romney performed strongly in his first debate against President Obama, potentially reversing weeks in which his campaign appeared in disarray and delighting conservatives who had been openly worried about him losing badly to the president in November…
theGRIO REPORT – Here are five key questions ahead of tonight’s much-hyped first debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney in Denver…
theGRIO REPORT- Cosmetics aside, President Obama, as his first debate with Mitt Romney nears, speaks and debates in a remarkably similar way to when he first arrived on the national scene in 2004…
NBC NEWS – The U.S. Supreme Court term that begins Monday promises to be one of the most important for civil rights in decades, with the potential for blockbuster decisions on issues from race in classrooms and the voting booth to legal recognition for same-sex marriage…