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This past week in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney had his biggest win to date. He finished with a double-digit lead, and is speech sounded a lot like he was accepting the nomination, rather than celebrating his New Hampshire win. It was filled with many juxtapositions of what the President does and what he will do, but one that stands out is this.
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We talked earlier about all of these different comments that Republican candidates have been making when it comes to African-Americans and food stamps and welfare and things along those lines. Let’s be clear. This is all by design in terms of they want to push the buttons of White conservatives who’re walking around with particular views, as well as subjective views, of African-Americans. And so it appears as if they simply want to get a rise
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Roland Martin and Ron Bonjean join Natalie Allen in the CNN Newsroom to discuss the GOP presidential field shake up.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Melody Barnes is leaving as White House chief domestic policy adviser at a time when President Barack Obama’s administration is getting little notice for its work on the home front to fix the struggling economy.
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Barnes, who will be gone by Tuesday, is quick to point out that there
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday approved a two-month renewal of payroll tax cuts for every American worker and unemployment benefits for millions, steering President Barack Obama toward a convincing victory over Republicans controlling the House.
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The measure, expected to be cleared for Obama’s signature by the House almost immediately,
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Stephanie Rawlings-Blake easily won in her first bid for the office, beating Republican Alfred V. Griffin III by a wide margin.
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Pres. Barack Obama’s been barnstorming across the country, talking about his jobs plan. He’s been, of course, to Ohio and Virginia and North Carolina — critical swing states to his reelection. But I believe the President should take his message to the heart of the opposition.
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Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has vaulted to the top of the Republican presidential field because GOP voters like his plain-spoken talk and his willingness to bring radical change to the U.S. tax code. And in a year when touting a long career in politics isn’t a good idea, he’s getting points for having no political experience.
It’s easy to vault up the ladder, but it’s just as easy to come falling
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The election of Barack Obama to America’s highest office — while stirring political activism in a new multiracial generation — it has also galvanized those of the opposite ilk. Not only has the xenophobic and often racist Tea Party come to the fore, but Obama’s ascendance has also brought Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and seemingly every wing of the white-nationalist movement in from the fringes.
Their rhetoric reads as such: If a Black man can get elected why not a white supremacist? It’s
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Special to NewsOne by contributor Bobby Marvin
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) was honored with the unveiling of his official portrait commemorating his tenure as the 62nd Chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means committee.
A small bi-partisan group of congressional lawmakers including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, House Speaker (D-MD), John Boehner (R-OH) and Congressional Black Caucus
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