NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Protesters descended on Michigan's Statehouse on Tuesday as legislators began to vote on a controversial right-to-work measure. The...
MIAMI — It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the nation. SEE ALSO: FOX News Interview Illustrates Why Romney/Ryan Ticket Is A Fail[1] Exhorting congregations to register to vote, church leaders are distributing registration cards in the middle of services, and many are pledging caravans of “souls to the polls” to deliver the vote. The stepped-up effort in many states is a response by activists worried that new election rules, from tougher photo identification requirements to fewer days of early voting, are unfairly targeting minority voters — specifically, African-Americans who tend to vote heavily for Democrats. Some leaders compare their registration and get-out-the-vote efforts to the racial struggle that led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. SEE ALSO:This Election, Voting Is Our Civil Rights Movement[2] “In light of all this, we are saying just l ...
CHICAGO — The presidential candidates are criticizing each other in new television commercials aimed at winning working-class voters who could help swing the election, pitting Republican Mitt Romney’s (pictured) wealth against the loss of American jobs to China on President Barack Obama’s (pictured) watches. RELATED: Barack Obama Quotes: His Most Memorable Lines[1] As Romney dispatched running mate Paul Ryan to kick off a three-day bus tour in the critical battleground of Ohio, Obama began running an ad in the state trying to use his GOP rival’s own words against him. Watch Barack Obama’s working-class ad here: It’s the campaign’s first spot using Romney’s comments that 47 percent of voters pay no income tax, and believe they are victims and entitled to government assistance. The 30-second ad also points out that Romney paid just 14.1 percent in federal taxes last year on $13.7 million in income and refuses to release his returns before 2010. “Maybe instead of attacking others on taxes, he ...
