Rising GOP super star Mia Love catapulted to the national stage during this year’s Republican National Convention. In her speech, love touted her immigrant background and her parents’ ability to pull themselves up by their bootstraps after coming to America with $10 in their pockets. Despite being a child of immigrants, Love has fallen in…
Wednesday night, Jay-Z and Beyoncé hosted a $40,000 per ticket fundraiser for President Obama’s reelection campaign. The “wildly successful” event was held at Jay-Z’s 40/40 club in Manhattan and included over 100 supporters. While the evening added another $4 million to the campaign coffers, it was the President’s comments about Beyonce that got everyone talking. During…
The Republican National Convention wrapped up Thursday night in Tampa, and the reviews are mixed. While the GOP went to great efforts to showcase its diversity, tapping Mia Love, Condi Rice, Artur Davis, Marco Rubio, Susana Martinez and several others to speak, fact checkers took them to task for the speeches, especially vice presidential…
Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman pelted with peanuts and called an animal by two Republican National Convention goers, says she wasn’t surprised by the horrific incident. “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all,” she told the Maynard Institute’s blog Journal-isms from Tampa. Carroll, an Alabama native, explained: “This is Florida, and…
We are in the middle of a contentious election year and while many are divided across party lines and are eagerly waiting to cast their vote on November 6, some rappers are speaking out against the process. The latest artist to join the, “I don’t vote,” coalition is Compton’s own, Kendrick Lamar. In a recent…
An ugly scene transpired during the Republican National Convention Tuesday night when an attendee was thrown out of the convention center in Tampa after allegedly throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and taunting her, saying, “This is how we feed animals.” Former MSNBC host David Shuster tweeted about the horrific scene, which was later…
According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Mitt Romney’s problem with black voters is even worse than he thought. The poll found that the GOP candidate is capturing the support ZERO percent of black voters, losing to President Obama 94 percent to zip. While Republicans typically fail to capture broad African-American support, past…
Newsweek’s latest cover story is certainly provocative. In the piece, Harvard professor and former McCain advisor, Niall Ferguson argues that America needs to elect a new president because Barack Obama has failed to live up to his promises. Ferguson writes: In his inaugural address, Obama promised “not only to create new jobs, but to lay…
After months of wondering who Mitt Romney would pick for his running mate, the former Massachusetts governor tapped Wisconsin congressman, Paul Ryan to be on the ticket. Congressman Ryan is best known for introducing a budget in the House that would dramatically change Medicare and other social programs. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news,…
I won’t comment, folks; I’ll let you guys be the judge. But remember when Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP convention? Somehow, the tepid applause he received from the audience translated into full-blown support from black voters. And according to Romney’s highly stylized video, we believe in Mittens. But, do we? Will this video be…
