Three big scandals. Two Marine umbrellas. And a non-salute en route to Memorial Day. Plus more visual evidence from 12 days of scandal town.
The Drudge Report is helping to stir up a panic that looters are going to come and take your stuff -- yes, you, you right there, sitting in your home, feeling frustrated an vulnerable -- you are about to get your stuff stolen by looters.
We don't yet know how much damage Hurricane Sandy will do. But we already have evidence of the ruinous effects the storm is having on the crowing glory of so many women, their hair.
When a storm so powerful that even meteorologists can't find the right expletives for it hits your hometown, it's human instinct to go outside to get a good view of the action. Do not do this, you will get hurt. Instead, look at these crazy photos from the whole East Coast.
Who has the most to gain from Sandy, President Obama or Mitt Romney? There are so many competing hypotheses it's hard to keep them straight. Here's our guide to them:
The New York Times' Nate Silver has created a model to predict the outcome of the presidential election that's watched by just about every pundit, and yet Silver's model refuses to perfectly reflect the conventional wisdom spouted by just about every pundit. The pundits do not like this!
Mitt Romney established a tax shelter in 1996 that allows him to take advantage of the tax-free status of a charity without actually giving much to the charity at all.
President Obama and Mitt Romney will raise $1 billion each this election. They will spend almost all of it. It is impossible not to wonder, when contemplating $2 billion blown on ads that blare at empty rooms while people get snacks from the kitchen, why didn't the campaigns just buy us all presents instead.
The most amazingly, entertainingly fake video of a fake Barack Obama being born -- featuring a baby that is all cleaned up and looks about three months old -- to a fake Ann Dunham in a fake Kenyan hospital has been leaked to Vice because, wait for it, the leaker couldn't get in touch with Donald Trump.
There's another big fat storm coming towards the Northeast, and of course it has political implications. What will Hurricane Sandy, aka the Snor'eastercane and Frankenstorm, do to the presidential race? And the liberal media?
With national and many state polls showing President Obama and Mitt Romney in a very close race, both campaigns are arguing that the polls are concealing their strength.
To judge by just the headlines from the last few months, you'd think our election was not taking place in enlightened America, where women have been able to vote almost 100 years, but in some distant country that's still struggling with the idea that you should punish rapists, not rape victims.
One of the major lessons learned as the newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates continue to roll in is that editorial boards are not swing voters.
Mitt Romney and allied Republican funds had $169 million cash on hand as of October 17, BuzzFeed's Zeke Miller reports. That means they have 20 days to blow all that money, or $8.5 million a day, and sadly, they won't spend buying presents for you and all your friends.
The Election Day cliche in a close race is that "it all comes down to turnout," but it's coming down to turnout earlier this year. Because of early voting, 6.5 million Americans have already cast their ballots.
Sarah Palin condemned President Obama's response to the attacks in Benghazi as a "shuck and jive shtick" in a note on her Facebook page Wednesday.
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says he's sorry if people misunderstood what he meant when he said a rape pregnancy is a "gift from God."
Sorry guys, Part 2 of the Day of October Surprises is a total dud. Donald Trump has been hyping an election revelation all week, and promised to tweet the news at noon Wednesday. The big reveal? At 12:01 p.m., he released a video saying if President Obama releases his college transcripts and passport records, "I will give to a charity of his choice… a check, immediately, for $5 million."
Wednesday is Double October Surprise Day, with two famous publicity seekers promising juicy revelations related -- Gloria Allred and Donald Trump. We now have a hint of what Allred might reveal.
Americans will get a second helping of Clint Eastwood's endorsement of Mitt Romney, but this time it's more serious, and does not involve talking to chairs.
Rep. Todd Akin's anti-abortion convictions are not something he adopted recently -- in 1985, he was arrested at least three times at abortion protests, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Kevin McDermott reports.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown says he doesn't actually care whether Republicans win control of the Senate this year, telling ABC News' Jonathan Karl, "For me it doesn't really matter who's in charge."
All of the evidence points to one thing, but most of the media is saying a different thing.
The most important military-related question after the third presidential debate is not who has the best policy for the troops, but which civilians can most skillfully deploy military jargon to prove they can hang with the troops.
The main message of the Obama campaign for the past year is essentially the one that's at the end of some ads airing in Ohio: "Mitt Romney: He's not one of us." Now, with the debates over and two weeks left in the race, the message is suddenly sunnier.
Both Obama and Romney started out with smiles and jokes. Then they got a little meaner.
Tonight is very our last chance to see President Obama and Mitt Romney yell at each other, as well as debate issues, at the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
Mitt Romney leads President Obama by 6 percentage points among likely voters nationwide, according to Gallup's seven-day tracking poll. The result, 51 percent to 45 percent, is a small 1 point drop for Romney from Sunday.
It's the time of year when newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates start coming in. We're keeping track of who's backing President Obama and Mitt Romney here.
Women are the key to President Obama's lead in Ohio, and Ohio is his key to stopping Mitt Romney's momentum nationally and winning the electoral college vote.
The debate between Carmona and Rep. Jeff Flake got heated, and moderator Brahm Resnik said, "Now I know how Candy Crowley feels, geez," BuzzFeed's John Stanton reports. Carmona replied, "You’re prettier than her." Resnik raised his eyebrows, laughed and said, "Not sure how to take that." There's really no excuse.
We've noticed how some of the things Mitt Romney's made a major part of his campaign started out as obsessions of conservative blogs -- "you didn't build that," the 47 percent -- and now President Obama is borrowing from his blogging allies.
Whether President Obama or Mitt Romney was funnier at the Al Smith dinner Thursday night is in the ear of the joke beholder. What's more interesting is which of their own jokes the candidates laughed at.
If Mitt Romney wins, the $1 billion conservative super PACs raised this election will be seen as money well spent. If he loses, there will be a fight among the biggest groups over which one made the most effective ads and who gets to be the "shadow boss" of the Republican Party.
President Obama sat down with Jon Stewart for an interview that will air on The Daily Show tonight. According to White House pool reports, they talked for a little less than 15 minutes, and while some questions were light-hearted, others weren't.
Gallup's seven-day tracking poll of likely voters shows Mitt Romney leading President Obama by 7 percentage points, 52 percent to 45 percent. Should Obama panic?
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki would have us believe the campaign is terrified Mitt Romney will destroy President Obama with far funnier jokes during their appearances on Thursday night at the Al Smith dinner, where it is a tradition for people who are not comedians to tell jokes.
Many, many people were puzzled by the mental image brought to mind by Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" phrasing at th Tuesday's debate. An entire Tumblr has been trying to fill in the details, but now we have the real deal, guys, a photo from the Associated Press taken in 2002 of the original binder.
Behind their handsome faces, the Romney boys are a little intense. Tagg Romney said the debate made you want to "jump out of your seat and you want to rush down the debate stage and take a swing at him" -- him being the President of the United States.
It's wonderful being an American woman right now, because the last three weeks of the presidential campaign are going to be all about women. Well, it's only sort of wonderful, because while the campaigns will be paying women a lot of attention, they won't be treating women like they're smart.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is creating his own Super PAC because he finds the current tone of the election "frustratingly superficial," The New York Times Raymond Hernandez reports. Perhaps Bloomberg has a superficial understanding of Super PACs, because while their effectiveness is debatable, it's clear they have not elevated the debate.
There were a couple exciting moments in the presidential debate last night when President Obama and Mitt Romney revealed they do not like each other very much. One of those was on the not-typically-emotionally-charged issue of energy permits. Relive it in our GIF anatomy of the fight.
The were several big fights in the presidential debate that were target rich for both fact-checkers and GIF makers. In a few cases, what started as a calm, maybe even boring conversation suddenly broke down into pointed fingers and raised voices.
We live GIF-blogged the second presidential debate, and President Obama and Mitt Romney rewarded us for our efforts with a very confrontational show. If you missed the debate -- or if you want to relive all the best finger points and fact checks and zings -- here's our recap.
However overhyped you think Tuesday's presidential debate is, the real cold hard truth is that it cannot be hyped enough. The stakes are impossibly high—not just for who gets to be the most powerful person on Earth, but also for the people who get paid to talk about the most powerful person on Earth, which is a powerful though considerably lesser position.
The Democratic National Committee released a single-serving joke site—RomneyTaxPlan.com—that displays an enticing button promising to allow you to "GET THE DETAILS" on the plan but that scurries away from your pointer when you try to click on it.
There are the public rules for each presidential debate -- how long the candidates get for each answer, how long they get to respond -- and then there are the secret rules their campaigns agreed to in a memorandum of understanding with the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party raised a ton of money in September -- $170 million, The New York Times' Ashley Parker and Nicholas Confessore report.
The top ad on the Drudge Report Monday was for Dreams from My Real Father, a conspiracy movie about President Obama that exposes his true genealogy: he's not the son of a Kenyan anti-colonialist, as birthers may have lead you to believe but of an American alleged communist and sexual libertine named Frank Marshall Davis. Is this a game changer?
All of the probing insight into Mitt Romney's daddy issues over the last two years has been based on a lie.
The presidential campaign has reached a moment of rare bipartisan agreement: the candidates do not want Candy Crowley to do much of anything at the second presidential debate Tuesday.
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