The Obama campaign continued to hammer GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on foreign policy Friday, releasing a new video questioning whether the former Massachusetts governor would have had the courage to launch a mission akin to the one that took al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s life about a year ago. In the spot, former President Bill Clinton commends Obama for making the call on the operation,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Huffington Post Discovery Date : 27/04/2012 12:07 Number of articles : 2
HTC is taking their One series and running with it. At the unveiling event at Mobile World Congress we were given a good idea of how the name would tie into marketing, emphasizing the new phone as the only “one” designed to meet the desires of individual users. In another way, HTC wants folks to Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Android Phone Fans Discovery Date : 30/03/2012 03:17 Number of articles : 2
Dr. Jill Stein is an award-winning Massachusetts physician with a background in environmental health. She is the frontrunner for the Green Party presidential nomination, having won more than 2/3rds of the vote in the first eight state primaries to take place this year. Dr. Stein is campaigning for “A Green New Deal for America,” creating 25 million jobs and ending unemployment by converting to a new,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Antemedius – Liberally Critical Thinking Discovery Date : 30/03/2012 08:11 Number of articles : 2
‘What’s the best thing to do? Register voters!’ Young Democrats leader Kendra Kelly tells MTV News. By Becca Frucht Students congregate at the Georgia State University courtyard Photo: MTV News ATLANTA — After the collegiate calm of Georgia Tech — cheerful but dignified — the eclectic action at the Georgia State University quad was just what I needed to wake up after an early morning stalking voters at the polls . (And confession time: I ate way too many biscuits.) This campus hot spot is where students congregate every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 to 1 p.m. (no one has classes then) to peep the Greeks “strollin’ ” and various student organizations promoting their causes. First stop in the coed chaos was a chat with Kendra Kelly, a 22-year-old double major in political science/ journalism, who also happens to be the president of the Young Democrats at GSU. She was not content to take a backseat on the GOP’s Super Tuesday , during which 419 delegates are up for grabs in 10 states among the four candidates still in the hunt. And she wasn’t onboard with trying to manipulate the vote by taking advantage of Georgia’s open primary and casting a ballot for the Republican she thinks is most likely to lose to President Obama in November. Instead, she and her crew of boisterous politicas told MTV’s Power of 12 that they were opting to steal the Republican thunder in a more proactive way. “We decided instead of strategizing our votes, because we have an open primary, what’s the best thing to do? Register voters!” she said. “And furthermore, get their information so we can keep up with them … and keep them informed, so when it comes time to vote in November, they vote on our side.” Right next door to the rowdy Young Dems voter drive, we found 23-year-old Alison Fox from Students for Sensible Drug Policy, who is flexing her political muscle by abstaining from today’s primary, despite the fact that she applauds Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul’s approach to legalizing marijuana. (This seems to be a rather popular stance of his among college students. Just sayin’.) “I believe that right now I’m not gonna vote for any of the Republican candidates only because, unfortunately, I believe that money has too much to say in the candidacy rather than views and policy,” she said. Considering she also told us how her state’s front-runner, former Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich , grossed out her fellow activists when they attended one of his recent rallies, it doesn’t look like anyone from SSDP will be adding to Gingrich’s delegate count today. “I feel like, that once again, the money comes into play when it comes to his values and his politics,” Fox said of Gingrich. “Actually some of our members from the SSDP went to both the Ron Paul rally and the Newt Gingrich rally which was held in Georgia and while they left the Ron Paul rally feeling enlightened, they left the Newt Gingrich rally feeling nauseated. And very concerned about their futures.” Even without getting their vote on this Super Tuesday, these young women are proving actions can speak louder than polls. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!
Georgia Tech student Thaddeus Johnson tells MTV News Republican nominee ‘has too much baggage’ to take on President Obama. By Becca Frucht Photo: Getty Images ATLANTA — After a slow morning at the polls , things are finally picking up as the Super Tuesday action kicks into gear in A-town. Yes, former Peach State Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to easily take the state, possibly his only win today, but that doesn’t mean the other candidates aren’t getting attention from voters too. Or that everyone is totally onboard with the Newt message. The weather’s warmed up, the Georgia Tech student center is jumping and the polling place right smack in the middle of it is … still crickets. Every table in the Student Center food court is packed — and when I polled all the kids just steps away from the voting booths, most of them were either registered in their home counties, had already sent in their absentee ballots (props to these conscientious citizens!) or simply unaware that anything was going on. So MTV’s Powerof12 news team stepped outside to see what was going down in the quad and we ran into two cool coeds in spirited sweatshirts. Pals Thaddeus Johnson, 20, and Briana Brown, 22, agreed to a sun-dappled chat on what they’re thinking about this Super Tuesday, how their parent’s politics influenced them and why it’s important for young people to exercise their power to vote. They also threw in on what issues are most important, and we learned that the duo has the same social pressure point, interestingly. For Briana, the debate over contraception is what’s sparked her interest in the GOP race, “It applies a lot to us in this college setting, and it’s an interesting issue that I didn’t think of before the primary.” The issue has blown up into a national talking point thanks to the recent controversial comments from right-wing talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh denigrating law student Sandra Fluke. As far as Johnson is concerned, ” Newt Gingrich has too much baggage” to take on President Obama in the Presidential election, but he thinks whatever happens, it’s important for the youth vote to get out because “we’re the generation of tomorrow. We’re the next people that are gonna run the country. These older people, yeah, they’re gonna vote, but they’re about to die off.” Harsh? Maybe. True? Oh yeah. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!
Mitt Romney is expected to take the Massachusetts primary, but experts are predicting record-low turnout. By Jacob Soboroff Jacob Soboroff looks for young voters on Super Tuesday in Boston, Massachusetts Photo: Adam Murphy/MTV News BOSTON — What happens when a reporter goes on the hunt for young voters in a state with 969,000 of them on Super Tuesday ? He finds two — and a guy waiting for a bus — at the state’s largest university. At Boston University, over the course of the lunch hour, only two students came into the polling place at Myles Standish Hall to exercise their civic duty. Ben Nichols and Simon Wentzell cast ballots at a polling place on campus where a quick walk-through revealed everything was going smoothly — but the number of poll workers outnumbered voters by far. So where is everybody? Nichols, an independent voter who supports Texas Congressman Ron Paul, said he wasn’t surprised. “It’s a primary. They don’t usually get nearly as many voters as an actual election,” he said. As to why he turned out, the first-time voter said, “To be honest, I live right there. That’s my room. So it kind of helps.” Wentzell, a member of the BU College Democrats, was also greeted by a lack of fellow voters. “It’s been pretty empty, seems like, so far,” he said. The low turnout didn’t get the best of the 19-year-old’s political optimism, though. “It’s a little disappointing. But it’s a little early and we are one of many districts.” A Boston elections official tells me — no joke — that there was a 2.5 percent voter turnout citywide as of noon. In former Governor Mitt Romney’s home state. Then again, the traditionally blue state wasn’t expected to put up record-high numbers in a year when only the GOP side of the equation is being decided. With an incumbent Democrat waiting in the wings in the form of President Obama, many Massachusetts voters appear to be keeping their powder dry for the general election in November. While he is looking at potential runner-up finishes in a number of Southern states and an uncomfortably close race in key swing state Ohio , Romney is expected to cruise to an easy victory in Massachusetts, where 41 delegates are at stake on a day when a total of 419 delegates are in the mix. On the sidewalk outside, though, as he squatted waiting for the bus, Aaron S. wouldn’t be adding to that vote total because he said he wasn’t voting and wasn’t interested. “Around 11 o’clock — or is it 12? — most people are already in class,” he explained. Dressed in a pair of SpongeBob SquarePants pajama bottoms, the physics major said it wasn’t a matter of Boston being a Democratic town or kids getting ready for spring break that was keeping turnout down. “I spend most of my time in the lab,” he said. With that, he got on the bus in front of the polling place and rolled away. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Power Of 12 throughout the presidential election season. Related Videos Super Tuesday: MTV News Is On The Ground!
Reporter Andrew Jenks embeds in the Ohio State University campus on Super Tuesday to talk to young voters. By Andrew Jenks Rick Santorum talks with young voters in Ohio Photo: Getty Images COLUMBUS — With less than 8 hours to go before voters in 10 states hit the polls, as of late Monday night there was not that much Super in Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday I am in Ohio for a primary that the young people I’ve run into so far apparently don’t care that much about. We won’t know until later today if the four remaining Republican candidates — Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul — will be able to rouse the 18-29 voting bloc, but recent results aren’t that promising. In the recent Arizona Primary, six percent of eligible voters under 30 turned out to vote and in Michigan it was hardly better at seven percent. Not too hot. But those are just stats. When you hit the ground, you get past the numbers and start talking to some of the folks who might help the candidates roll up those 419 delegates at stake on the biggest voting day of the year so far. On the plane ride here Monday night I met soon-to-be-dentist David Neumann, 23. We talked dental school, how he got into better colleges than I did, and of course the biggest topic in Ohio: The Republican Primary. “I didn’t even know it was tomorrow,” said Neumann. “I am involved. I follow what’s going on. I just don’t feel interested in that right now.” But when I bring up Heat star LeBron James, who left David’s hometown of Cleveland for Miami, his face lights up with fury. You can tell he’s pissed. But the Primary? “Feels like a lot of empty words,” he told me when describing the entire election and the seemingly never-ending GOP battle to come up with a candidate to take on President Obama in the fall. While waiting for my bags I met Shadi Yaabdi, who is now old enough to vote in the upcoming election. “Super what?,” she asked when I inquired whether she was planning on voting today. “Yeah, I don’t care for that.” Before I even left the airport, I wondered if I have a serious problem ahead of me today? Am I covering a story that hardly anyone my age cares about? And am I doing that from the state that may have the best chance at finally deciding the 2012 Republican nomination race? Or will I find that there are way more students on the Ohio State University campus who are fired up and ready to go, excited to flex their power at the ballot box and finally help push one of these candidates into the spotlight? I’m hoping it’s the latter. MTV has Super Tuesday covered, with reporters on the scene in Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts! Check back for up-to-the-minute coverage on all the primaries, and stick with Powerof12.org (http://powerof12.org/) throughout the presidential election season.
Mitt Romney won Washington state’s Republican caucuses this weekend, gaining a boost heading into Super Tuesday tomorrow, March 6, when 11 states hold contests. The choice isn’t binding. Romney won 37.6 percent of vote. He’s put together a bit of a win streak, also carrying Wyoming, Arizona and Michigan within the last week. Ron Paul edged Rick Santorum for second place with both receiving about 25 percent of the vote, with Newt Gingrich coming in fourth with 11 percent of the vote. Republican contests on March 6 include Ohio, a swing state that President Obama, a Democrat, won in 2008 and Republican President George W. Bush won in 2004. Polls there are very close, while Santorum has the edge in Oklahoma and Tennessee, and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich leads surveys in Georgia. Romney is expected to win Massachusetts, Vermont and likely Virginia. Paul will continue to be a factor everywhere, particularly in states with caucus formats. The 2012 Washington Republican Caucus results: Mitt Romney 19,111 (37.6%) Ron Paul 12,594 (24.8%) Rick Santorum 12,089 (23.8%) Newt Gingrich 5,221 (10.3%) Other 1,749 (3.4%)
(CNN) – Ron Paul announced Wednesday he was launching television ads in Washington state and Vermont, two states he hopes will give him his first win in the 2012 GOP nominating process. The 60 second spot running in Washington slams his rivals as uniformly non-conservative, and includes a scathing critique of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Political Ticker Discovery Date : 29/02/2012 05:38 Number of articles : 4
Miranda Lambert has continued to publicly berate Chris Brown following her Grammy’s Twitter rant last week. The country superstar made it clear that her feud with Brown, 22, is far from over during a show at the University of Massachusetts Thursday. Prior to performing her song “Gunpowder and Lead,” Lambert, 28, brought out a neon green poster bearing the words “Take notes Chris Brown” to let her fans know that she hasn’t dropped the ball in her campaign against the singer. “Get a good picture now, put it on Twitter,” Lambert told the crowd. “I’ve been in a world of hurt with Chris Brown fans lately … but see, I just have to speak my mind because where I come from, beating up on a woman is never okay.” According to E! Online, the singer then smirked, “So that’s why my daddy taught me early on in life how to use a shotgun.” “Gunpowder and Lead,” a hit off Lambert’s 2007 album, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” is about a woman who prepares to shoot and kill her abusive husband just as soon as he’s released from jail. Earlier in the week, Brown responded to haters with two messages on Twitter that have since been removed. “HATE ALL U WANT BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That’s the ultimate F–k OFF!” he wrote following an outpouring of outrage on the social networking site. “I’M BACK SO WATCH MY BACK as I walk away from all this negativity #teambreezygrammy,” he later posted. Both comments no longer appear on the singer’s Twitter feed. In response to his tweets, Lambert posted a smug: “Oh and one more thing for all who are asking … I have a Grammy too.” Yoooooo. We understand having strong feelings about the man performing at the Grammy’s but the Grammy’s are over. Breezy has served his probation and apologized and clearly Rihanna isn’t even looking to “put him back in his place” so what is with Miranda Lambert’s personal vendetta? Wouldn’t she be better served devoting her energy by volunteering with women and kids at a shelter? Or should Breezy just be put out of business for life???? Source Image Via Facebook More On Bossip! Whitney Houston’s New Jersey Home, Where She Married Bobby Brown, Up For Sale: Take A Peek Inside [Photos] Strange Feelings: The Most Random Celebrity Crushes That Make Us Scratch Our Heads Represent! A History Of Beautiful Women Of Color That Graced Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issues Guess Which Love & Hip-Hop Badazz Brawlin’ Banger Got The Boot At A Fashion Week Show In New York???
