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RNC chair Priebus downplays ‘impressive’ Obama fundraising totals
Senior Republican figures attempted to downplay the role of money in the presidential race Sunday, as Barack Obama embarked on a new push for funds having already announced a record monthly haul. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus prompted speculation that Democrats were…
Will black voters give Obama what he needs in Southern swing states?
Will black voters give Obama what he needs in Southern swing states? When then-candidate Barack Obama won North Carolina by 14,000 votes in 2008, a lot of the credit went to the eye-popping 76 percent turnout rate among African-American voters. Virginia, too, saw its large share of black voters help…
Maher: Anniversary sex left Obama ‘spent’ for debate
Wednesday’s first presidential debate, Bill Maher said Friday, was a marked contrast: while Republican Mitt Romney showed what he looked like “all charged up,” President Barack Obama, Maher said, looked like he’d spent Maher’s million-dollar donation on weed. Maher also cracked that the timing of the debate — it was…
Watch live: Obama campaigns at George Mason University
President Obama campaigns in Fairfax, Virginia, at the George Mason University Center for the Arts. Watch live, broadcast on NBC News on Oct. 5. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Ex-GE CEO Jack Welch accuses Obama campaign of falsifying jobs data
After this morning’s jobs report, which announced that the September unemployment rate fell to a near four-year low of 7.8 percent, retired CEO of General Electric (GE) Jack Welch accused President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Twitter of falsifying the new numbers. Welch posted on Twitter, “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago…
Jon Stewart: Obama should have just said ‘liar, liar’ for two minutes
On his show Thursday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted President Barack Obama’s lethargic performance at the first presidential debate. He slammed the President for losing despite the fact his challenger threatened Big Bird. “And here is the thing, Obama lost even though Romney was lying his ass off…
Obama calls on Romney to tell the truth
DENVER, Colorado — Barack Obama demanded truth from the “real Mitt Romney” on Thursday as aides promised a “hard look” at strategy after the president’s listless performance in the first White House debate. Passionate, cutting and engaged, in stark comparison to his debate showing, Obama told 12,000 cheering supporters at…
This Isn’t the ’90s: Why Obama Won Last Night’s Debate
Could we take exception to this blanket disparaging of President Obama’s debate performance last night? The very fact that some people thought a very calm Obama “lost” is exactly why I’m for him, in my heart, more than I was a week or so ago. People are behaving as if…
Romney surrogate Sununu calls ‘lazy’ Obama performance ‘the mess the president left on the floor’
Former governor and George H.W. Bush appointee John Sununu (R-NH), currently serving as a surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, appeared on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” to blast Presdent Obama’s Wednesday night debate performance. In the process of doing so, however, he used what many liberal and African-American commentators called a…
Obama: ‘Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird’
President Barack Obama on Thursday stood up for Sesame Street character Big Bird after Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney promised to end funding for public broadcasting. “I would stop the subsidy to PBS,” Romney told debate moderator Jim Lehrer on Wednesday. “I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually…
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