Ahead of Debate, Obama Campaign Feels Good All Over
Barack Obama arrives at JFK. (Photo: Getty) HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has seen polls tighten in recent days, but at Hofstra University ahead of...
View ArticleBobby Jindal: ‘I Almost Feel Sorry for the President’
Bobby Jindal on the media filing room floor. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Like many prominent politicians in the United States right now, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on the floor of the media filing room...
View ArticleObama Doesn’t Let Big Bird Go
(Photo: Wikimedia) HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Governor Mitt Romney generated endless headlines when, during the first presidential debate, he referenced Big Bird while citing federal funding for PBS as...
View ArticleObama Campaign: Romney Was ‘Angry, Sweaty, Rattled’
(Photo: Getty) HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The last questioner hadn't even finished asking his question before the presidential campaigns' surrogates hit the floor of the media filing room to spin the results...
View ArticleCuomo Makes a Surprise Appearance in Spin Alley
Governor Cuomo in a reporter scrum. Though Governor Andrew Cuomo was in the audience at tonight's debate, he was not on the official list of Democratic surrogates passed out by President Barack Obama's...
View ArticleMayors Against Illegal Guns Evaluates Debate Answers to ‘AK-47′ Question
(Photo: Getty) Ahead of last night's presidential debate at Hofstra University, several members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a prominent organization backed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, penned an...
View ArticleWATCH: The Final Presidential Debate
(Photo: Getty) Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are facing off in their third and final debate tonight. The verbal contest, hosted by Bob Schieffer, will focus on foreign policy and...
View ArticleObama to Romney: The Military ‘Is Not a Game of Battleship’
(Photo: Getty) In one of the more memorable exchanges of tonight's final presidential debate, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney clashed while discussing the focus of our military. After Mr. Romney...
View ArticleNew York’s Leading Mayoral Candidates Get Down to Business
Bill Thompson speaking. Kathy Wylde, the head of the pro-business Partnership for New York City had a question for New York's four Democratic mayoral hopefuls at the candidate forum she hosted today....
View ArticleMayoral Hopefuls Discuss Their Role Models
The scene right before John Liu arrived. Across the breadth of policy issues, the Democratic candidates for mayor this year tend to share similar viewpoints. However, there are some notable exceptions,...
View ArticleMayoral Candidates Debate Faith, Pot and Police in the Bronx
The candidates on stage. Cops resemble "slave catchers." Sal Albanese never smoked a joint. The Bloomberg Administration has locked the men of God out of City Hall. These were all arguments presented...
View ArticleRepublican Mayoral Hopefuls Say Drones Should Patrol NYC
John Catsimatidis, Joe Lhota and George McDonald. (Photo: Jill Colvin) The three leading Republican candidates for mayor all support the use of controversial unmanned drones to watch over New York...
View ArticleAh-nold Makes Appearance at Mayoral Debate
Bill deTerminator (Image Composite: Wikimedia/Getty) A mayoral election season that has been dominated by one hum-drum debate after the next got a rare moment of levity Friday when former California...
View ArticlePlenty of Bark and Bite at Animal Rights Mayoral Forum
Mayoral candidates clash at an animal rights forum yesterday. The candidates for mayor of New York City made their pitch to animal lovers yesterday, and needless to say, they repeatedly professed their...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Makes His Case to Skeptical Bronx Voters
Anthony Weiner speaks at his first forum appearance Thursday night. (Photo: Jill Colvin) After a frenzied meet-and-greet with commuters in Harlem, ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner made his first...
View ArticleEducation Advocates Slam Christine Quinn for Dropping Out of Debate
Christine Quinn (Photo: YouTube) Organizers of a mayoral forum on education issues scheduled for tomorrow afternoon are fuming after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn pulled out at the last...
View ArticleWet Weather Wrecks Anthony Weiner’s Bike Share Plans
The rain interfered with Anthony Weiner's plans to bike to his first debate. The miserable weather not only made for a dreary afternoon, it also rained out Anthony Weiner's plans to ride one of the...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner’s Wise-Cracking Continues at First Mayoral Debate
Anthony Weiner speaks at the first debate of his mayoral campaign. During the first debate of Anthony Weiner’s once-improbable mayoral campaign, the former congressman openly wondered whether he had...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Ducks a Shot at Debate
Anthony Weiner. (Photo: Getty) Anthony Weiner's Democratic rivals in the mayor's race have generally done their best to avoid talking about the sexting scandal that led to his downfall two years ago....
View ArticleThe Green Party Smacks Around Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner and Sal Albanese at a Staten Island mayoral forum. Anthony Weiner took a beating on his first official stop in Staten Island Monday night. Mr. Weiner was repeatedly hit by his rivals,...
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