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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…
ANALYSIS – Mitt Romney’s decision to attack the Obama administration’s response to a series of complicated, fast-moving events in Egypt and Libya have the potential to damage his candidacy in a way even a lackluster Republican National Convention did not…
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…
theGRIO REPORT – In the first few years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, national security and terrorism dominated the national agenda, becoming one on the chief dividing lines in American politics…
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…
theGRIO REPORT – As President Obama and Mitt Romney’s contest has entered its final two months, the electoral map is becoming increasingly clear. And the black vote will matter in determining the winner…
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…
OPINION – Now, eight years later, Obama returns to the podium tonight to deliver yet another speech at the Democratic National Convention. In the intervening eight years, the nation is so much is different and, in many ways, not so changed at all…
theGRIO REPORT – Here’s what we learned from the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If there’s a theme to tonight’s speaking lineup here at the first day of the Democratic convention, it’s a nod to all the important voting and demographic blocs of the Obama coalition. Women? You have First Lady Michelle Obama, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Lilly Ledbetter. Latinos? Keynote speaker Julian Castro and Rep. Xavier Becerra. African Americans?
theGRIO REPORT – One factor that could help the president repeat in North Carolina, where four years ago he was the first Democrat to win here since 1976, is the state’s rapidly shifting demographics…
theGRIO REPORT – The Obama campaign is putting tremendous resources into the state — 49 field offices, hundreds of paid staff and thousands of volunteers. And they of course also hosting the party’s convention here, providing another opportunity for organizing Obama-friendly people in the state…
FIRST READ – On getting American voters more comfortable with him as president, Romney made a stronger case — and devoted more time — to why Obama should be fired than why Romney should be hired…
theGRIO REPORT – Here’s what we learned from Mitt Romney’s RNC speech on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention…
FIRST READ – After Ann Romney’s introduction on Tuesday and Paul Ryan’s rousing speech last night, Mitt Romney gets his moment tonight when he accepts the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination…
ANALYSIS – Condoleezza Rice’s speech is one of the rare ones at a convention that could be worth watching…
FIRST READ – Ann Romney humanizing her husband and delivering a well-received speech, check. Chris Christie hitting the Democrats and President Obama…
FIRST READ – The Ann Romney and Chris Christie speeches will try to accomplish these two different goals: the soft sell of Romney (which is Ann’s role) and the hard sell (which is Christie’s)…
theGRIO REPORT – In 2008, then-congressman Artur Davis of Alabama gave an effusive speech to second Barack Obama’s nomination as the Democrats presidential candidate, saying that as president, Obama would ‘lead and inspire the free world’…
theGRIO REPORT – Despite badly trailing President Obama in terms of which candidate voters find more likable, Mitt Romney says he’s not going to try to win over people through personality…