On Wednesday, the NAACP started its national registration drive for voters in Atlanta. The goal for the organization is to target the nearly 1 million minority voters who have not registered to vote in the area. After historic black voter participation in the 2008 election, there are many people who doubt if that same level of turnout will exist after the first term of Barack Obama four years later. The... 

President Barack Obama went through New York’s capital last Tuesday and praised it as the national model for its high tech economy. He said that the computer chip research at SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is the future of the nation’s economy. It showed how the government can best work to generate jobs. The president spoke before a crowd of around 500 people. He stated... 

Mitt Romney, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party said on Wednesday that he unequivocally is against marriage between two people of the same gender. That came shortly before President Barack Obama announced in an interview with Robin Roberts that he felt it was fine for two people of the same sex to be married. The two main presidential candidates have taken a firm stand on... 

President Barack Obama will call on Congress to act on his proposed mortgage relief, veterans’ assistance, and small business tax credits. He tried to put the blame on the lawmakers who oppose his efforts to help the economy. Obama was scheduled to go to Albany, New York Tuesday to visit a nanotechnology research center. He will state a list of things to do for Congress during his speech in the facility.... 

Just a few years ago, many would have thought it strange to have an incumbent president who was fathered by a black, campaigning for reelection against an opponent who has been condemned for being un-Christian. Yet, that is just what is happening. Barack Obama against Mitt Romney, an African-American versus a Mormon, representatives’ of groups that have had to endure oppression to carve their own... 

Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States said he was very comfortable with same-sex marriage, a view, which appeared to be different with his boss on the social issue that is a hot button. On Meet the Press, on Sunday, Biden was pressured into answering if the Obama administration is going to try to legalize same-sex marriage during their second term in the White House. He said he would be... 

The Senate has used the student loan legislation as its latest arena for a partisan face off during this election year. Both sides are pounding away at one another with students left in vain. Congress is returning after a spring recess of a week, and the Senate will vote on Tuesday to see if debate will start on the plan by the Democrats to maintain student loan interest rates at 3.4%. The interest... 

President Barack Obama formally opened his reelection bid last Saturday with two rallies where he spotlighted his accomplishments during the last three and a half years as president. He said that the country can’t afford to implement Republicans’ bad policies. The president said that Republican nominee Mitt Romney would approve all of congressional GOP agenda if given the chance. This is why America... 

On Saturday, the Libertarian Party nominated Gary Johnson a former presidential candidate for the GOP, to be their nominee to run for the presidency. His campaign said he would have a spot on the ballot for the presidency in every state in the nation. Johnson, an ex-governor of New Mexico, won the party’s nomination with over 70% of the vote in Las Vega at the party convention. He entered the primary... 

Diving head first into his campaign for another term in the White House, President Barack Obama ripped into Mitt Romney Saturday about cutting taxes to benefit the rich, reducing spending on Medicare and education and increase the power that big insurers and banks have over consumers. Six month remain before election day and the most recent polls indicate the race will be close between the President...