Michele Bachmann was the muse for a new romance novel called Fires of Siberia, to be published June 1, about a fiery presidential candidate who tries to bone up on her foreign policy credentials only to get stuck in the wilderness with a sexy stranger.
The Census Bureau has verified that turnout among black voters for the first time topped that among whites in 2012. That shift may have affected the results in some states — and could affect perceptions of the Voting Rights Act.
About 90 million Americans believe aliens exist. Some 66 million of us think aliens landed at Roswell in 1948. These are the things you learn when there's a lull in political news and pollsters get to ask whatever questions they want.
The lessons the Republican National Committee learned from the 2012 elections is that both the party's message and its policy needs fixing.
Taking the CPAC stage to cheers for his first major speech since November, Romney did not in any way name what his mistakes might be, instead reprising a 2012 stump speech for a 2013 version of the party that he left necessarily vague.
Mitt Romney will give a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, his first public speaking appearance since conceding defeat on election night, the National Review's Robert Costa reports.
The massive amount of outside political spending unleashed by Citizens United did not, as feared, make it easier for rich people to buy an election. Instead, it showed that rich people are pretty dumb about politics.
During the 2012 Republican primary, several candidates were criticized as unserious hustlers who cared less about America's problems than getting more famous into order to sell books — or get a Fox News contract like the one Herman Cain landed on Friday. Well, it's a year later. How did everyone do?
After a blog alleged that she didn't vote in this election, Dunham took to Twitter to clear up the situation. Maybe.
Yes, it is possible for a pundit to lose his job for being very, very wrong. Dick Morris, one of the most spectacularly wrong pundits of the 2012 election, has been fired by Fox News.
Karl Rove warns that Democrats not to over-interpret the 2012 election results in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Thursday, arguing that the supposed "permanent Democratic majority" could be gone in an election or two if they overreach. Rove, of all people, should know.
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss is not running for reelection in 2014, which opens the door for a comeback of perhaps the funnest candidate of all time. Maybe.
When Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign ended, she faced a decision: pay former aides the money they were owed, or make them sign a nondisclosure agreement first? She chose poorly.
They are news stories and they are the people behind them, they are photos and videos and GIFs. They are, quite simply and in chronological order, the good things.
If you thought the tale of how Mitt Romney lost the general election was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never wanted to be President anyway.
If you thought Mitt Romney wasted his money on advertising, you won't believe how much of yours his transition team spent on furniture and BlackBerrys.
Even as reports surface that he has asked his cabinet to look into an assault-weapons ban and that an old Justice Department report may be back on the table, the president could use executive orders to impose some gun restrictions — today.
A new e-book offers more insight into Romney's micomanagement approach to politics, and the three big ways in which it failed him.
Mitt Romney lost women voters by 12 percentage points, but he lost women donors by way more.
Forget for a moment whether they were true or not, and that one of them earned the title of "Lie of the Year" today. When it came to the biggest expenditure of his presidential campaign — TV ads — the technocratic and data-loving Mitt Romney allowed his campaign to waste a shocking amount of money.
Mitt Romney's campaign ad claiming President Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" — implying Ohio jobs were being shipped overseas — has been awarded PolitiFact's dubious achievement.
John Heilemann and Mark Halperin are writing a followup to their 2008 bestseller, but this sequel is unlikely to be as thrilling as Terminator 2. (Paul Ryan is no Sarah Palin.)
The most expensive election in the history of expensive elections passed a major milestone Thursday evening: the cost of the election was revealed to be more than $2 billion dollars.
You have to give credit where credit is due: In a world where there are few consequences for appallingly bad pundit predictions, Fox News — not The New York Times, not ABC News, not CNN — is taking the lead in pundit accountability.
A top Tea Party organization recently triumphant for bringing "beautiful chaos" to the right is suddenly falling apart into a kind of chaos of its own. A clash over the group's "direction" has taken place in the last 24 hours — not that anyone will say what that direction is, exactly.
Rick Santorum is reportedly telling friends he'll make a third run for president in 2016, but in the meantime, he's going to keep his name in the news by writing for the top birther website on the Internet.
Here's how you know the Republican Party isn't going to change all that much in the next four years: Several potential 2016 candidates met privately with Sheldon Adelson, the conservative mega-donor with the worst return on political investment ever.
Romney's campaign has insisted that its internal polls showed a much closer race. Now comes word that the campaign has revealed some of those poll numbers to The New Republic's Noam Schieber, and the magic numbers are not what you'd expect.
The campaign's rigorous scientific analysis of what happens when it spams your inbox for a couple years straight has revealed some troubling conclusions.
Mitt Romney's campaign manager Stuart Stevens has offered up a counter-history of the 2012 presidential election, the kind you might imagine coming from lefties like Howard Zinn or Oliver Stone — if the purpose weren't to protect the reputation of a former private-equity executive.
The White House says there will be no press coverage of Obama and Romney's meeting, but luckily we have a long photo archive of past presidents' microexpressions giving away exactly how they feel about the other guy.
The race to become the presumed frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination feels awfully hot given that the 2012 election is all of three weeks old. But still, here are the guys ready to make a few tweaks and usher in a new Republican era, like, right now.
Newt Gingrich did not rule out running for president in 2016 while on a promotional book tour, which is awesome because he was one of the funnest presidential candidates of all time.
With a bit of dubious reasoning, the conservative magazine wants to kill the summer tradition in which Republican presidential candidates spend tons of money and eat unexpected foods on sticks in order to get a little press and raise a little money.
Some of the very same Republicans who have spent the last two weeks bashing Mitt Romney were sucking up to him at a massive rally the Friday before the election — even angling for jobs in the Romney administration — a Romney adviser complains.
In a bucking of primary-season tradition that might just fend off the Michele Bachmann of 2016, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is now floating the idea of killing the Ames Straw Poll.
Look, the predictions Dean Chambers made on UnskewedPolls.com were totally wrong, but at least he did math to get them. Chambers' followup, BarackOFraudo.com, is supposed to expose how Democrats stole the 2012 election, but you can find more original content on bot-made e-commerce sites.
It's been two weeks since Election Day, but it's not all over in Arizona. Thousands of early and provisional ballots remain uncounted. So what's the reason for the delay, who have been the most vocal critics and why did so many ballots take so long to be counted?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie faced a broad and furious backlash from conservatives for saying so many nice things about President Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, and not only did it hurt his feelings—it was just as vengeful as everyone expected.
When you think of the widespread Republican condemnation of Mitt Romney for saying President Obama beat him only because he gave "gifts" to young people and minorities, it helps to think of the former presidential candidate as two men: a man who was a potential Republican president and a failed Republican nominee.
Some Republicans are reportedly dismayed Mitt Romney blamed his loss on President Obama buying the vote with entitlement "gifts." But shouldn't they be happy to finally have proof Romney wasn't faking it?
Jon Stewart knew you were keeping that Confederate flag close by for a reason.
The Guardian on Al Gore, The New York Times on an "Indiana Jones," Grist on post-election optimism, ClimateWire on snowpacks, and Co.Exist on fishing.
Two possible candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination have very different diagnoses for Mitt Romney's loss last week.
President Obama's re-election team has already been lauded for its mastery of data and organziation, but a feature in today's The New York Times looks at another secret, and more subtle, weapon: Behavioral science.
We present these photos of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden wearing American flag-style shutter shades because it is clear the American people have been demanding to see Obama wearing Kanye glasses for years since he was crudely photoshopped into them way back in September 2008.
Republicans warned President Obama's reelection would bring about more class warfare, and it has, but not in the way they predicted: elite conservative thought leaders are blaming the party's riffraff for the GOP's unhappy election day while the riffraff blames the conservative elite for not being conservative enough.
Four days later, the state of Florida's counted (almost) all of their votes and the AP confirmed what everyone already knew: Obama won. But the most important detail is that there won't be a recount.
The Republican Party is having a conversation about how to reach more than old white people as voters. "What Republicans need to learn is how do we speak to all Americans," House Speaker John Boehner told ABC's Diane Sawyer.
As Republicans continue to deconstruct the failure of the Romney campaign, volunteers have revealed that there were serious problems with GOP's whiz-bang tech solution for getting people to the polls.
Obama stopped by the Obama for America headquarters on Wednesday to thank his volunteers for giving him their time and effort over course of the long campaign, and all that hope and change made him tear up a little bit.
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