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Project ORCA: Mitt Romney Campaign Plans Massive, State-Of-The-Art Poll Monitoring Effort

Source: Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has been quietly assembling a massive, technologically sophisticated poll monitoring program that staffers believe will be their secret weapon in defeating President Barack Obama. Project ORCA will rely on 34,000 volunteers in swing states on Election Day, in an effort to keep track of who [...]

Oprah Winfrey And Huffington Post To Launch ‘HuffPost OWN’

Source: AP / theGrio NEW YORK  — Two of the most powerful women in media — Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington — are joining forces. The two on Thursday launched “HuffPost OWN,” a new section on the Huffington Post website that will feature material from the Oprah Winfrey Network and Oprah.com. The new online destination [...]

Bet On Black: African American Shows Boost Oprah’s OWN Ratings

Source: Always A-List There’s Black Entertainment Television (BET), TV One and now, there’s apparently Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network! The TV titan’s television network posted double-digit gains for the month of October, the channel’s ninth consecutive month of growth, across all key demographics in both primetime and total day versus year ago numbers. Winfrey’s ratings upswing has a [...]

Five Days Left Until Election Day; Christie Praises Pres. Obama On Sandy Response (VIDEO)

Roland Martin, Will Cain and CNN’s Carol Costello discuss the final push to election day, bi-partisanship on display in response to Superstorm Sandy.

American Consumer Confidence Hits Highest Point – 72.2 – Since Feb. 2008

Source: Marcy Gordon / Chicago Sun-Times Americans’ confidence in the economy surged last month to the highest level in nearly five years, as many were encouraged by an improving job market. The Conference Board said Thursday that its consumer confidence index increased in October to 72.2. That’s up from 70.3 in September and the highest reading [...]

Source: Cowboys’ Smith In Family Money Battle

Source: ESPN Family members have been pressuring Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Tyron Smith for money, sources told ESPNDallas.com. According to a police report obtained by the Dallas Morning News, a 911 call was made after family members showed up at Smith’s North Dallas home and proceeded to “harass and torment” him “in the pursuit of collecting financial gain.” It [...]

Stewart: Chris Christie Kicked Butt Working With Obama On Hurricane Relief (VIDEO)

Source: Josh Feldman / Mediaite After two days on hiatus due to Hurricane Sandy, Jon Stewart was back on the air tonight to recap just how hard New York was hit by the hurricane in the past few days. Stewart said that Manhattan is still so dark, he’s nicknaming it “Little North Korea.” He credited the state [...]

Former Penn St. President Graham Spanier Charged In Sandusky Abuse Case

Source: CBS News Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is being charged with child endangerment, perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in connection with the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse case, according to court documents. Spanier, 64, is now the third school official to face charges in the case. Attorney General Linda Kelly is expected to announce [...]

How The Exit Polls Misrepresent Latino Voters, And Badly

Source: Gary Segura / Latino Decisions Did you know that, despite running exceedingly racialized anti-Latino advertisements in Nevada’s Senate race, Sharon Angle got 30% of the Latino vote? Jan Brewer also did well, attracting an above-average 28% share of Arizona’s Hispanic vote just months after signing SB1070 into law.  Moreover, Meg Whitman received 21% of [...]

SIL LAI ABRAMS: Lil Reese And Big Russ = Major Problems

By Sil Lai Abrams EBONY.COM Relationship Expert About a week ago, a video surfaced on WorldStarHipHop.com that showed a largely unknown Chicago rapper named “Lil’ Reese” unleash a barrage of blows on a young woman who took exception with he and a group of friends coming into her home. That the young Def Jam-signee use of [...]