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Perry County Alabama Names Barack Obama day

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:05:03 +0000

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Perry County a small central Alabama county whose mainly African American residents gave president Elect Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect. The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Continue reading →

Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango Lives in a Boston Slum

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:47:35 +0000

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working Continue reading →

Records Not Released by Barack Obama

Nonpartisan Election News — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:51:35 +0000

Excuse me Mr. Obama, I mean Senator Obama, Sir. Um . . . I know you’re busy, and important and stuff. I mean running for president is very important and — ah — I hate to bother you Sir. I will only take a minute. Ok Sir? See, I have these missing pieces that are Continue reading →

Allegations of ACORN Voter Fraud Continue

Nonpartisan Election News — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:52:05 +0000

KANSAS CITY, Missouri. – Officials in the swing state of Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by ACORN (Association for Community Reform Now) advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. Charlene Davis, co-director of the election Continue reading →

Possible Opening for Voter Fraud in Ohio – For Barack Obama

Nonpartisan Election News — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:50:58 +0000

Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked. The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage Continue reading →

VP Debate Moderator Gwen Ifill – A Dent in Her Impartiallity

Nonpartisan Election News — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:33:55 +0000

Gwen Ifill -PBS Commentator and moderator of the single Vice Presidential debate of this election has a book coming out on all days – Jan. 20, 2009 — a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States. The title of Gwen Ifill’s book? The Breakthrough: Politics Continue reading →

Barack Obama to be Investigated for Illegal Campaign Donations

Nonpartisan Election News — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:15:56 +0000

More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small private donors whose names the Barack Obama campaign will not disclose. Additionally, there have been questions about the millions in foreign donations Barack Obama received from people who have not been confirmed to be be US citizens. While John Continue reading →

New York Times Actually Does a Positive Piece on John McCain

Nonpartisan Election News — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:23:30 +0000

John McCain is on course to lose the presidential election to Barack Obama. Can he turn it around, and surge to victory. He has a chance. But only if he overrules those of his aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom, huddled in a defensive crouch and overcome by ideological timidity. The conventional wisdom is Continue reading →

Barack Obama Uses Teleprompter in TownHalls and Campaign Stops

Nonpartisan Election News — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:27:35 +0000

Image via Wikipedia From CNN, Barack Obama uses teleprompter on the campaign trail. This should quiet the voices that CNN only writes and discusses things critical of John McCain and Sarah Palin because this is not the most positive, nonetheless it is nor negative either. Rather it is just humorous. It appears Barack Obama’s teleprompter Continue reading →

Barack Obama Tries To Silence Critical Voices on WGN Radio

Nonpartisan Election News — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:41:10 +0000

Image via Wikipedia WGN-AM a radio station in Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. This is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an “Obama Action Wire” alert to supporters Continue reading →