While you may know this actress best for her award-winning role of the hilariously funny, fashion-forward “Joan Clayton” on the hit show “Girlfriends,” these days Tracee Ellis Ross[1] is making her name on the campaign trail stumping for President Barack Obama. As she traveled through Ohio, Ross spoke exclusively with NewsOne to explain why everyone needs to vote, how she found her voice through voting, and why she finds a Mitt Romney win “terrifying.” SEE ALSO: Michelle Obama Defends Husband, Says Black Women Have Her Hubby’s Back [Exclusive][2] NewsOne: Where are you on the campaign trail? Tracee Ellis Ross: I’m on a little bus in Ohio. I went to Nevada and this is my second trip. Of course the election always happens when I have so much on my plate, but this is so important and I’m willing to show up and fly somewhere and do what it takes if I can be of service. I actually registered one voter on a campus in Nevada and I remember how exciting it was for me the first time I voted, so ...
Koch Industries, the billion-dollar global corporation that is known for converting some of the world’s resources into services that people depend on, sent a mailing to 45,000 of its employees earlier this month on how to vote in this year’s presidential election. The company’s owners, siblings David (pictured right) and Charles Koch (pictured), who are infamously known for being GOP mega-donors, reportedly informed their Georgia Pacific employees that their livelihood could depend on the 2012 elections and that the company wholeheartedly supports Republican candidate Mitt Romney for president, according to the New York Daily News.[1] SEE ALSO: NYPD Caught On Surveillance Video Using Excessive Force[2] The voter information packet that was mailed to the employees was obtained by In These Times, a politically progressive and socially democratic monthly magazine, and the cover letter included a message from Koch Industries President and Chief Operating Officer Dave Robertson stating: While ...
WASHINGTON — It’s more than President Barack Obama‘s lackluster debate performance that has some Democrats on edge a month from Election Day. SEE ALSO: Madeleine Albright: Romney ‘Dead Wrong’ On Foreign Policy[1] Party loyalists in Washington and in battleground states are fretting that Obama’s campaign has been slow to rebound after Republican Mitt Romney‘s commanding debate. They’re worried that the Democratic ticket isn’t aggressive enough in blocking Romney’s post-debate pivot to the political center. And they fear Romney’s new effort to show a softer side gives the Republican nominee an opening with female voters, who are crucial to the president’s re-election prospects. “I’m not feeling very positive,” said Awilda Marquez, a prominent Democrat in Colorado. “I know that it’s only the first debate, but he can’t seem to change the relentless negative coverage. Romney has been able to take control.” Her nervousness was echoed by roughly a dozen Democrats in interviews across the country ...
Never shy about tapping into public perceptions or crafting cultural icongraphy, no matter how slanted, “The New Yorker” has created a cover of the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and GOP opponent, Mitt Romney, that is sure to raise some eyebrows. The cover is a caricature of the roles the two politicians seemed to be playing that night: Mittens as stern-faced and self-righteous savior of the free world, and the POTUS as, well, an empty chair. The latter being a clear parody of Clint Eastwood‘s spectacularly awkward and spontaneous performance at the Republican National Convention. Moderator, Jim Lehrer, is depicted as an out-of-focus figure in the background, which is the most authentic image of the cover. “The New Yorker” was embroiled in controversy in 2008 after they depicted the First Couple as Islamic, militant, fist bumping terrorists. At the time, they argued that the cover’s purpose was to shine the light on the ignorance assumptions and stereotypes that ...
