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First lady Michelle Obama asked Hampton University students Friday to change their plans for the weekend and volunteer for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign’s effort to get voters to the polls Tuesday. “Hampton students, whatever you are planning to do for the weekend that doesn’t involve getting the vote out – postpone that,” the first lady told a raucous crowd [...]

As we continue our daily updates on the state of the ground game, we want to turn attention to the African American vote. The African American community is solidly and overwhelmingly behind President Obama, because they know he is fighting for all of us, not just some of us. Our campaign has been committed to organizing in the African American [...]

Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama. Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he’s black? If race is just one factor in blacks’ support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks’ support [...]

Food. Music. Voting? Students at Meharry Medical College, Fisk University and other Nashville campuses are putting together an early-voting rally to be held this month in a bid to boost turnout among the area’s college students following implementation of Tennessee’s voter identification law. Operation: Wake-Up and Vote — which organizers shorten to Operation: WAVE — will feature food and entertainment [...]

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton told a Fayetteville audience Saturday that he believes November’s election will play out as one of the most important in the nation’s history. “Whoever wins this election won’t just impact the next four years,” he said. “It will impact the next 100 years.” The silver-haired MSNBC talk show host spoke to about 1,200 people at [...]

Delawareans got their chance to listen to President Barak Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney argue their platforms directly to each other in the first of three televised presidential debates Wednesday. The debate, which focused on the economy, health care and government’s role in people’s lives, were supposed to give people a view of the two men vying for the [...]

Mitt Romney is a part-time resident of this tiny state, and his fiscally conservative, socially moderate tenure as governor of neighboring Massachusetts once seemed a good match for New Hampshire’s independent and libertarian-leaning electorate. Yet, Romney trails President Barack Obama in polls here, as he does in most other presidential battlegrounds, despite spending considerable time and money to lock up [...]

Citizens across America have different reasons to vote in the presidential election, students at Albany State University are no exception. “Federal aid is one of the issues that for me as a student, is very big”, said ASU junior Brandon Nelson. Other students say they’re concerned about the job market after they graduate. The student government association is trying to [...]

  Actress Keke Palmer spoke to hundreds of students at Bethune Cookman University this past week urging the importance of voting and promoting her top candidate for the election, President Barack Obama. “We are the future. Young adults identify with me,” Palmer said about why she’s working to help re-elect the president. Palmer spoke on crucial issues that she believes [...]

Imagine if today’s Republicans were not so deceptive, conniving, and dishonest—President Barack Obama would have successfully completed a lot more work during his first term. Coming into a situation in which the country was, and still is, in financial ruin, however, Obama faced very unique oppositions as he inherited a multitude of crises, thanks to Texan George W. Bush. With [...]

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. As the American presidential elections heat up as we get closer to September, President Obama clearly leads amongst African Americans in polling, but he needs African Americans to actually go to the polls, not just answer phone calls about how they’re going to vote. [...]