2012 Presidential Campaign Blog

Grassroots Event at North Hennepin Community College with Dr. Jill Biden

Grassroots Event at North Hennepin Community College with Dr. Jill Biden

Estimated Event Time:  12:00 PM CDT

Where:          

North Hennepin Community College
7411 Eighty-Fifth Ave North
Brooklyn Park, MN. 55445

Women for Obama-Biden Grassroots Event with Dr. Jill Biden in Hopkins, Minnesota

Women for Obama-Biden Grassroots Event with Dr. Jill Biden in Hopkins, MN

Estimated Event Time:  2:30 PM CDT

Where:          

The Depot Coffee House
9451 Excelsior Boulevard
Hopkins, MN 55343

 

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Address Hispanic Voters in Meet the Candidate Events September 19 & 20 in Florida

President Barack Obama and Presidential Candidate Governor Mitt Romney Address Hispanic Voters in First-of-Its-Kind Meet the Candidate Events September 19 and 20 in Florida
Univision News and Facebook to Broadcast One-on-One Sessions on September 19 and 20, 2012 at 10 p.m. ET/PT

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Univision News, a division of Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, announced the dates for the “Meet the Candidates” events that the Company is hosting along with Facebook to discuss education and the future of the Hispanic community. Republican presidential candidate, Governor Mitt Romney, will be participating in this conversation with Univision News on September 19, 2012, while President Barack Obama’s event will take place on September 20, 2012. Both events will be streamed online in English and will be televised on the Univision Network at 10 p.m. ET/PT on each night. These are the first-ever events of their kind targeting Hispanic Americans. The “Meet the Candidates” events will both take place in front of a live audience at the University of Miami BankUnited Center Fieldhouse.

“Hispanics will play a key role in electing the next President of the United States and these events will help address key issues so that the more than 20 million Hispanics expected to vote this year can make an informed decision”
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 “Hispanics will play a key role in electing the next President of the United States and these events will help address key issues so that the more than 20 million Hispanics expected to vote this year can make an informed decision,” said Cesar Conde, president, Univision Networks. “We are pleased that both President Obama and Governor Romney understand the importance of sharing their vision with Hispanic Americans, a group that is younger and more active in social media than the average citizen, and whose influence in U.S. politics continues to grow. By partnering with Facebook and the University of Miami, we are further bringing access to these candidates to an incredibly important segment of the population.”

“The University of Miami is proud to be part of these important events that will address the future of education and Hispanics in the nation,” said Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami. “Our students are thrilled to have the candidates for President on our campus.”

Moderated by Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, the award-winning anchors of Univision’s national evening newscast “Noticiero Univision,” the conversations will focus on education and the future of the Hispanic community. Each will be streamed on the Univision Noticias Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/univisionnoticias), with Facebook’s politics hub (http://www.facebook.com/uspolitics) also highlighting the events. Univision News will also be engaging audiences via Facebook in advance of the events.

Univision News is covering the lead-up to the 2012 Presidential Election across all platforms, in both Spanish and English. This includes election coverage on UnivisionNoticias.com, the Noticias Univision app. English-language coverage is available at UnivisionNews.Tumblr.com.

Univision’s award-winning News division is committed to informing the country’s fastest growing segment across all media platforms, including TV, Radio, and Interactive. Hispanics count on the latest and most relevant content that impact the community through: Univision’s evening, late evening and weekend national newscasts; “Al Punto” (To The Point); newsmagazine programs “Aqui y Ahora” (Here and Now) and “Primer Impacto” (First Impact); as well as morning news on “Despierta America” (Wake Up America). In the last year, Univision has strengthened its news team and expanded its news operations by adding Investigative and Documentary Units.

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Obama for America Releases Updated Television Ad: “The Choice”

Obama for America Releases Updated Television Ad: “The Choice”

"Over the next few months you have a choice to make. Not just between two political parties or even two people. It's a choice between two very different plans for our country.

Governor Romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top, roll back regulations on big banks, and he says that if we do our economy will grow and everyone will benefit.

But you know what? We tried that top-down approach. It's what caused the mess in the first place.

I believe the only way to create an economy built to last is to strengthen the middle class. Asking the wealthy to pay a little more so we can pay down our debt in a balanced way. So that we can afford to invest in education, manufacturing, and homegrown American energy for good middle class jobs. Sometimes politics can seem very small. But the choice you face, it couldn't be bigger."

(A version of this Ad ran on July 23, 2012)

Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: “Guide”

Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: “Guide”

Voiceover:

"The new AARP Voter Guide is out with facts you need on Medicare.

Fact: Barack Obama will protect your guaranteed benefits and will not allow Medicare to become a voucher program.

Fact: Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits and instead give future retirees "premium support" or vouchers.

AARP apposes that plan and non-partisan analysts say it could raise seniors' costs up to $6,400 a year."

Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: “Won’t Say”

New OFA Television Ad and Policy Memo Answer the Question the Romney Campaign Won’t

CHICAGO – Obama for America released a new television advertisement and policy memo that answers the question Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan won’t: how to pay for their $5 trillion tax cuts skewed to millionaires and billionaires. Just like they did in Tampa, Romney and Ryan continue to evade legitimate questions about the specifics of their plan because their campaign believes it would be “suicidal” to release details.

But, as highlighted in OFA’s new television ad, to pay for Romney and Ryan’s tax breaks for the wealthy, their plan would raise taxes on middle-class families. Independent, nonpartisan experts have found that their plan could only be paid for by limiting tax deductions like the mortgage interest deduction, which would raise taxes on middle-class families with kids by an average of $2,000 a year.

And in addition to the new ad, Obama for America also released a new memo from Policy Director James Kvaal today that further exposes Romney and Ryan’s hollow budget proposals. While two candidates have campaigned on a $5 trillion tax plan, they have repeatedly ducked and dodged fundamental questions about how they propose to pay for their plan without raising taxes on middle-class families. And their budget plans fall $6 trillion short of Romney’s promise to balance the budget – leaving a total of 11 trillion questions for voters.

That’s just more of the same bad math that crashed our economy in the first place.

“Won’t Say” will air in Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, and Ohio

Voiceover:

"Mitt Romney, he won't reveal what's in his taxes and he won't tell you what he'd do to yours. To pay for huge, new tax breaks for millionaires like him, Romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class. Two thousand dollars for a family with children says a non-partisan report. You could lose the deduction for your home mortgage, college tuition, health care.

How much would you pay? Romney just won't say."

Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: “Dangerous”

Obama for America Releases New Television Ad: “Dangerous”

Barack Obama: I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message

Voiceover: Mitt Romney's position on womens health. It's dangerous.

Women: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would get rid of Planned Parenthood funding. And allow employers to deny coverage for cancer screenings and birth control.

We can't afford to let him take away our choices. To take away-basic health care.

Voiceover: Both backed proposals to outlaw abortions...even in cases of rape and incest.

Women: I don't think that womens health issues have faced a crisis like this in decaDES.