There is a 130-foot-long by 17-foot-high swatch of gray paint on a concrete retaining wall at the University Avenue exit off the Downtown Connector. The drab patch is so prosaic that if you didn’t know what was beneath it, there would be no reason to give it a passing glance. Yet the paint, and what [...]
Incumbents Ruled the Day in Georgia Elections
November 7, 2012 | Posted by
With all 352 Fulton County precincts reporting and all but one county reporting statewide, incumbents ruled the general election Tuesday. In the presidential race, incumbent Democrat Barack Obama had 64.7 percent of the Fulton vote, well ahead of Republican Mitt Romney (33.9 percent) and Libertarian Gary Johnson (1.2 percent). Though Romney won the Georgia vote [...]
Anti-Obama Documentary Filmmaker Fighting Lawsuit by Film’s Producer
October 25, 2012 | Posted by
Dinesh D’Souza says legal action by a fellow producer of the anti-Obama film 2016: Obama’s America claiming that he misappropriated money and broke contracts “contains many false statements.” The author and 2016 co-director was responding to a filing this week by Douglas Sain, credited as a producer of the political documentary, one of two lawsuits filed related to the film. [...]
No Let Up for Charles Rangel After Disputed Primary
July 5, 2012 | Posted by
In the aftermath of their heated primary battle, Representative Charles B. Rangel and his strongest challenger, State Senator Adriano Espaillat, look less like combatants resting after a hard-fought contest and more like rivals still in the middle of a race. That is because, a little more than a week after Mr. Rangel appeared to win [...]
Pres. Obama’s Weakening Grip on Young Voters Could Cost Him Election
July 2, 2012 | Posted by
Maria Verdugo, a 20-year-old graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, barely remembers the presidential election of 2008 — the one that spawned a youth movement that was singular in its scope and political effectiveness — except for “something about Obama saying we needed a change.” These days, Ms. Verdugo is so busy working [...]
Roland Martin: Florida Preparing to Deny Citizens the Right to Vote…Again?
June 4, 2012 | Posted by
It wouldn’t be an election year without the state of Florida exhibiting its usual despicable efforts to keep its residents from voting. After the 2000 debacle where the nation had to contend with hanging chads, ballots not being counted, more lawyering than anyone ever needs to deal with, and finally a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, [...]
