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October 18, 2012

Obama: No confusion over response to Libya attack

NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama is pushing back against critics who say there was confusion within his administration…
October 18, 2012

Mitt Romney on Bain Capital: Private equity firms don't 'attract many minorities and women'

theGRIO REPORT - According to the Huffington Post, this foot in mouth feeling surrounding women's issues is not entirely a…
October 18, 2012

Springsteen and Clinton rev up Ohio's working class for Obama

PARMA, Ohio (AP) - Lest anyone forget the importance of Ohio's white, working-class voters, President Barack Obama is sending a…
October 18, 2012

Black undecided voter needs more substance from both Obama and Romney

theGRIO REPORT - Sixty-three-year-old African-American Khari Enaharo appeared in a MSNBC focus group of undecided voters following the second presidential…
October 18, 2012

'Obama's America' filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza resigns from NY evangelical college

NEW YORK (AP) - The conservative scholar behind a high-grossing film that condemns President Barack Obama resigned Thursday as head…
October 18, 2012

Tony Dungy asks Obama and Romney to talk about fatherhood

theGRIO REPORT - Tony Dungy started an online petition calling on President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to make…
October 18, 2012

First lady Michelle Obama pens open letter to women

theGRIO REPORT - With less than 20 days left until the country elects its next president, First Lady Michelle Obama…
October 18, 2012

New Twitter bromance? Donald Rumsfeld and Jermaine Dupri share a 'quote of the day'

theGRIO REPORT - They may be from different worlds: hip-hop and the George W. Bush administration, but that doesn't mean…
October 18, 2012

House Tea Party icons face re-election challenges

RAMSEY, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's tendency to cause a ruckus on Capitol Hill made her a tea…
October 18, 2012

Why you should stop obsessing over the polls

ANALYSIS - With fewer than three weeks left, election-obsessed Americans in both parties have turned into 24/7 poll-watchers, reading every…
October 18, 2012

Obama's daughters' school Sidwell Friends evacuated; all clear

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. private school attended by the daughters of President Barack Obama says it briefly evacuated after…
October 18, 2012

Obama 'noose' sign draws criticism

VIDEO - A campaign sign in Waushara County, Wisconsin is stirring-up controversy...
October 18, 2012

Romney urged business owners to tell employees how to vote

theGRIO REPORT - In a June 6, 2012 conference call, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney urged employers to tell their…
October 18, 2012

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Legacy of slavery was ugly, but situation is worse now

theGRIO REPORT - Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) has become the latest GOP lawmaker to convey ambiguity on the institution of…
October 18, 2012

'Binders full of women' Romney remark remixed into rap, dubstep and Auto-Tune

theGRIO REPORT - Mitt Romney is being tweeted, and re-posted all over the Internet after Tuesday night's second presidential debate,…