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ANALYSIS – For Mitt Romney, the presidential debates that start on Wednesday in Denver are perhaps his last and best chance to reshape the race against President Obama, which Romney trails according to most polls…
OPINION – In 2008, a greater share (63.9 percent) of black citizens under 30 overcame the unnecessary hurdles of registration than any other youth demographic, and a record 58 percent voted – the highest youth turnout rate in history…
theGRIO REPORT-President Obama has a strong lead over Mitt Romney in New Hampshire and narrow advantages in Nevada and North Carolina, according to a new series of NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist College polls, putting him ahead in virtually every swing state with fewer than 40 days before the election.
ELMHURST, Illinois (AP) – What a difference four years can make. In 2008, college campuses in the U.S. were filled with campaign posters and political rallies — and frenzy. Remember ‘Obamamania?’ This year, it’s difficult to find a student who’s truly excited about the presidential race…
theGRIO REPORT – When Republican-led state legislatures and governors passed controversial voting bills throughout 2011 and earlier this year, the provisions at first appeared a major impediment to President Obama winning re-election…
WASHINGTON (AP) – For the past year, as the presidential election unfolded, President Barack Obama confronted a dizzying swell of economic news — hiring up, hiring down, a euro crisis abroad, seesawing gasoline prices at the pump, foreclosures dragging down home values…
theGRIO REPORT – Voting on Election Day sometimes has complications, particularly long lines. So in key battleground states, Team Obama is aggressively organizing to get its supporters to use early voting programs…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Bill Clinton says Hillary Rodham Clinton is qualified to be president, but he says she’s tired after serving as secretary of state and he has no idea what she may do…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Loretta Mitchell is 100 percent sure she’s going to vote in the presidential race come November. She doesn’t have a clue who’ll get that vote.
ANALYSIS – Presidential campaigns rarely lead to great discussions of public policy, and this one has been no exception…
(AP) – With four justices in their seventies, odds are good that whoever is elected president in November will have a chance to fill at least one Supreme Court seat….
OPINION – I could make a credible argument that the Republican presidential candidate simply cannot persuade a majority of voters that he’s in the race to win. Why? Well, he can’t explain why he wants to win—a fundamental prerequisite for the job…
ANALYSIS – Obama is more reliant than Romney on blocs of voters who are not as consistent in turning out, particularly Latinos and people between the ages of 18 and 29…
FIRST READ – Our NBC/WSJ poll shows that the percentage thinking the country is better off since Obama became president jumped seven points from August, and it also shows him leading Romney by 11 points on who is better prepared to lead the country over the next four years…
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama has reached 50 percent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday night, crossing a key threshold that makes him a strong favorite less than 50 days before the presidential election…
ANALYSIS – Romney is right that something like 47 percent of voters may never back him, no matter what he says…
theGRIO REPORT – A successful convention was just the beginning for Democrats in North Carolina, or at least that’s what the Obama campaign is counting on…
CINCINNATI – A wave of new polls show President Obama leading nationally and in key swing states such as Florida, Virginia and here in Ohio, where the president spoke Monday…
theGRIO REPORT – President Obama leads in Ohio, Florida and Virginia according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist College polls, putting him narrowly ahead of Mitt Romney…
theGRIO REPORT – In the article ‘Obama’s Way’, Vanity Fair writer Michael Lewis provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the conviction and decisions of the most powerful man in the world..