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ANALYSIS – Obama hardly seems likely to be forced out of office, impeached or have the kind of incident like Katrina that eliminates his credibility with members of both parties…
ANALYSIS – The Mother Day’s event at the White House on Friday, in which the president appeared with a group of women to tout the benefits of the so-called Affordable Care Act, wasn’t just about mothers…
OPINION – For the party to survive it was time to turn the elephant to face its future. But have you ever tried to turn an elephant?
WASHINGTON (AP) – Making history, America’s blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy…
theGRIO REPORT – The Obama administration is ramping up its plans to implement the so-called Obamacare health care law, with speeches from the president, new aides tasked with selling the law to the public and a broad push to get people to enroll…
theGRIO REPORT – Watt’s nomination still has to be approved by the Senate. When I spoke with him the day after his White House appearance with the president, he was ready…
ANALYSIS – When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked President Obama this week at a press conference if Obama had ‘the juice’ to get his agenda through the Congress, the president bristled and argued he was still relevant…
ANALYSIS – Almost no one publicly criticized Collins or suggested a gay player would somehow disrupt the morale of an NBA team, the argument that was long cited in barring people who are openly gay from serving in the U.S. military…
theGRIO REPORT – When Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx said that he would not run for the third term he was almost guaranteed to win easily, most folks in town figured something big was in his future…
theGRIO REPORT – Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx will be nominated Monday by President Obama to become the new Secretary of Transportation, according to a White House official…
OPINION – George W. Bush and Barack Obama, neither of whom was considered an ideologue before they entered office, have presided over the most politically divisive time in modern American history…
ANALYSIS – Looking forward, the future of Obama’s agenda is not dependent on his leadership skills or his speeches, but the rest of the political structure…
theGRIO REPORT – A few months ago, politicians in both parties were declaring everything had changed involving gun policy in America after the Newtown shooting. They were wrong…
theGRIO REPORT – Despite very strong support from Democratic voters, bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines aren’t even included in the main gun control bill the Democratically-controlled Senate is considering..
ANALYSIS – Two weeks ago, President Obama was getting criticism from all sides, with liberals arguing he was squandering an opportunity to pass major gun control legislation and centrists and conservatives casting him as not providing enough leadership on deficit reduction…
ANALYSIS – The actual words of the likely 2016 presidential candidate illustrated the surprising and unlikely-to-work strategy Republicans are taking in courting the black vote…
theGRIO REPORT – Raffi Williams has a tough job ahead of him. He’s just been named deputy press secretary at the Republican National Committee, tasked with taking the party’s message to young and African American voters and black media…
theGRIO REPORT – Republicans in seven of the ten states in the country with the highest percentage of African-Americans have declared they won’t participate in the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act…
ANALYSIS – Carson could have smoothly entered politics in a number of ways, from appearing on television shows to talk about health care to getting himself in position to be tapped for a post in a Republican administration if the GOP wins back the White House in 2016…
ANALYSIS – In his remarks on gun control on last week, President Obama emphatically highlighted the number 90, the percentage of Americans in polls who say they support background checks for all gun purchases…