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Hoekstra's broken English ad draws more criticism

By theGrio

12:07 PM on 02/06/2012

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A coalition of black ministers in Detroit called Monday for U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra to apologize for his Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English to describe a Democrat's policies..
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Democrats sing their version of 'Lets Stay Together' for Obama

By theGrio

3:14 PM on 02/03/2012

Twenty five members of the Democratic caucus came together this week to sing 'Lets Stay Together' for President Obama...
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Charlie Rangel opponent recruited by major Democratic donors

By theGrio

3:10 PM on 02/01/2012

Clyde Williams, a former advisor for President Bill Clinton, is apparently being drafted to take on the fallen former Ways and Means chairman...
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TheGrio's 100: Patrick Gaspard, executive director of the Democratic National Committee

By Keosha Johnson

11:30 PM on 01/30/2012

theGRIO's 100 -- Patrick Gaspard played a major role in helping President Barack Obama get elected to the White House as the campaign director for Obama's 2008 campaign...
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Senate Democrats promise to push Obama tax agenda

By theGrio

7:32 PM on 01/25/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in the Senate promised Wednesday to press ahead this year with legislation drawn from his plans to require millionaires to pay at least 30 percent in taxes...
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Obama draws battle line in State of the Union speech

By theGrio

9:16 PM on 01/24/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, facing a tough fight for re-election, was using one of America's grandest political events, the State of the Union address, to draw a battle line with Republicans over fairness and the free market...
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'Yes We Can' speech 4 years later: Can Obama inspire Democrats like he did in 2008?

By Perry Bacon Jr.

9:02 AM on 01/09/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Four years and one day ago, Barack Obama was dealt a surprising blow to a presidential campaign that was surging...
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Obama applauds Iowa Democrats for their help

By theGrio

9:36 PM on 01/03/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - Inserting his voice into a big night for Republicans, President Barack Obama appealed to Iowa Democrats on Tuesday during the first balloting in the GOP presidential campaign...
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Barack Obama's 10 biggest challenges in 2012

By Edward Wyckoff Williams

12:00 AM on 01/01/2012

OPINION - Now that 2011 has faded to black, let's explore some of the major issues President Barack Obama will face in the coming year...
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House won't condemn Nazi remarks by Allen West

By theGrio

6:16 PM on 12/20/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Tuesday defeated a resolution to criticize a Florida Republican who compared Democrats' political messaging to the work of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels...
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Payroll tax impasse will likely result in smaller paychecks for Americans

By Perry Bacon Jr.

5:16 PM on 12/20/2011

theGRIO REPORT - An impasse between congressional Republicans, Democrats and President Obama over a year-end spending bill will almost certainly result in smaller paychecks for Americans for at least a few weeks early next year...
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Revenge of the Clintonites: Black Democrats cling to their 'first black president'

By Joy-Ann Reid

6:42 PM on 12/15/2011

OPINION - It seems not a month goes by without a politician or media figure from the Bill Clinton era hitting President Barack Obama for not being enough like the 42nd president...
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NC governor vetoes death-row racial bias bill

By theGrio

2:21 PM on 12/14/2011

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's governor on Wednesday halted a Republican effort to dismantle a law that gives death row inmates a new way to use racial bias as an argument for appealing their sentences...
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Republicans block payroll tax cut extension

By Joy-Ann Reid

8:00 AM on 12/02/2011

OPINION -- On the eve of the release of new unemployment numbers, and amid expectations the jobless rate will remain at 9 percent, Senate Republicans late Thursday killed -- at least for now -- an extension of the payroll tax cut...
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Democrats launch website, pushback on voter ID laws

By Joy-Ann Reid

2:22 PM on 12/01/2011

theGRIO REPORT - The Democratic National Committee went on offense Thursday, launching a major, public pushback against a raft of voter ID and other laws they say could disenfranchise millions of voters in 2012...
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Has the South re-segregated politically?

By David A. Love

8:20 AM on 11/22/2011

OPINION - With their lockstep support for the Democratic Party in the South, African-Americans are seemingly returning to the old Jim Crow days of political powerlessness...
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Obama signs bipartisan bill to help jobless vets

By theGrio

12:17 PM on 11/21/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - The legislation, which creates tax breaks for companies that hire jobless veterans, marks the first proposal from Obama's $447 billion jobs bill to be signed into law.
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Senate approves jobs benefits for veterans

By theGrio

5:18 PM on 11/10/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - A united Senate emphatically approved legislation Thursday intended to help unemployed veterans and companies doing business with the government..
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Elation in Ohio as anti-union bill is repealed

By Jay Scott Smith

9:27 AM on 11/09/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Last spring, 8,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers, and others unionized Ohio workers crowded into the state capital in Columbus to protest the passage of the law...
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Democrats to state officials: Oppose voter ID laws

By theGrio

12:40 PM on 11/03/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats asked secretaries of state in all 50 states to oppose new voter identification laws because they threaten the right to vote for many Americans...
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