Election 2012

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July 12, 2012

Biden tells NAACP Obama stands by his convictions

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden is offering a rebuttal of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before the nation's…
July 12, 2012

Under Obama, tax rates at lowest level in 30 years

theGRIO REPORT - A Congressional Budget Office report released this week showed federal tax rates for Americans are at their…
July 12, 2012

Obama talks up middle class in video to NAACP

HOUSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has asked NAACP members to keep standing with him as he seeks re-election and…
July 12, 2012

'Free stuff': Is Mitt Romney going to benefit from the NAACP's boos?

OPINION - The Republican presidential hopeful’s willingness to go speak to a “hostile” audience at the annual NAACP National Convention…
July 12, 2012

How Joe Biden became Obama's ideal 'black surrogate'

OPINION - Biden’s assigned role of visible point man for team Obama with minorities raises two tormenting questions for the…
July 11, 2012

Romney says he will 'make things better in the African-American community'

theGRIO REPORT - Making the most prominent appearance in front of a largely black audience of his presidential campaign, Mitt…
July 11, 2012

Mitt Romney booed for bashing 'Obamacare' at NAACP

HOUSTON (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney will tell black voters during a speech to the NAACP that backing him for…
July 10, 2012

Eric Holder calls voter ID a modern 'poll tax' at NAACP convention

HOUSTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because…
July 10, 2012

Nia Long: I've been an Obama supporter from 'day one'

theGRIO Q&A - Actress Nia Long is officially helping the Obama reelection effort, starring in a new video released by…
July 10, 2012

Have the black 1 percent abandoned Barack Obama?

OPINION - To date, the president's major Hollywood fundraisers have all been hosted by almost exclusively white celebrities...
July 10, 2012

For black Mormons, presidential race brings new attention

theGRIO REPORT - With the presidential election close at hand, Mormons, and particularly African-American Latter-day Saints, have been increasingly thrust…
July 9, 2012

Has the American electorate grown more racially polarized?

President Obama has created a unique political divide in which "racial conservatives" are likely to oppose virtually any policy once…
July 9, 2012

Romney's team outraises Obama and Democrats again

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic party raised $71 million in June, well below the $106…
July 8, 2012

Tough ID laws could block thousands of 2012 votes

(AP) - When Edward and Mary Weidenbener went to vote in Indiana's primary in May, they didn't realize that state…
July 7, 2012

NAACP convention to tackle new voting laws

HOUSTON (AP) - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says its newest battle is really an old…
July 6, 2012

Ohio voter to Obama: 'I'll arm-wrestle you for your vote'

The president was visiting the Amhert, Ohio location during his 'Betting on America' but tour when a customer challenged him…
July 6, 2012

Jobs report could blunt Obama momentum

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - A weak monthly U.S. jobs report could spell trouble for President Barack Obama and shift momentum…
July 6, 2012

What Ann Romney can learn from Michelle Obama's model of political wife

Ann Romney’s controversial comments that President Obama’s campaign wants to “kill” her husband may not have been the smartest course,
July 6, 2012

Obama says Romney bowing to pressure from Limbaugh

theGRIO REPORT - President Obama is casting Mitt Romney as beholden to conservative activists such as Rush Limbaugh who are…
July 6, 2012

Obama: Economy has to grow 'even faster'

POLAND, Ohio (AP) - A sobering economic snapshot intensified the presidential campaign on Friday as President Barack Obama rolled through…