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 next act in the political kabuki of Mitt Romney choosing a running mate will be the timing of the candidate's announcement, and while his aides have said he could announce this week, the latest speculation is that he'll wait until after the Olympics.
The chorus of conservatives calling for Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns has grown from being mostly those with an ax to grind to elected officials and the conservative establishment.
Politicians like to have a character to refer to in their stump speeches to dramatize their abstract disagreements with their opponent's position -- a widow without health care, a Wall Street banker with a fat bonus, a plumber -- but after unrelenting emphasis on Mitt Romney's career at Bain, President Obama has made his opponent and prop one and the same.
More people want Romney to release his tax returns than keep them private, New York is still liberal, and Obama loses ground in Iowa.
Supporters of President Obama have learned a valuable lesson from a laid-off steelworker in a popular anti-Bain ad who has gone off the reservation: just because someone doesn't like Mitt Romney doesn't mean they're an Obama supporter.
In a conference call with reporters arranged by Mitt Romney's campaign, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu strayed from campaign-approved talking points: "I wish this president would learn how to be an American."
President Obama demands to see Mitt Romney's tax returns, Democrats re-air Republicans demanding to see Romney's tax returns, and Republicans accuse Obama of cronyism.
Every time the Mitt Romney Veepstakes Finals gets quasi-officially narrowed down to the couple "boring white guys" the Romney campaign has been reportedly looking at for months, the campaign quickly moves to make the list looks more expansive.
Views on race impact Obama more than views on Mormonism impact Romney, Americans have mixed opinions on health care, and nothing's clear in swing states. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Last December, after Sarah Palin announced in October she wouldn't run for president, we started to notice she was shrinking. Now, four months ahead of the election, she seems smaller than ever.
A lot of Republicans offered Mitt Romney advice this weekend on how to get past the stories about Bain capital and his tax returns, but Romney is not going to follow any of it.
Last week didn't go so well for Mitt Romney, and so he's going to change the subject from Bain Capital and his taxes by revealing his running mate.
You would think, after the Obama campaign debuted their knockout punch yesterday, the Romney campaign would want to come out strong with their next ad. Instead, they've pissed off two out of the three journalists featured in their thirty second spot.
Ed Gillespie went on State of the Union to explain that Romney "retired retroactively" from Bain in 2002, while a former Bain parter appeared on MSNBC to explain that it was a management board who ran the company while he was gone. Elsewhere: Republicans complain about Obama's ads while Democrats tell them to stop whining.
Mitt Romney said he had no management role at Bain Capital after February 1999 -- and, by the way, he'd release no more than two years of tax returns -- in interviews with five networks Friday night.
Some poll findings Obama won't be too happy with: Young people don't want to vote as much as they used to and Floridians aren't too fond of health care. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
This weekend's forecast calls for a lot more Mitt Romney on your television, as the presidential candidate has booked three network interviews tonight and hired two new communications staffers.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney airs his second attack ad on President Obama's attack ads, while Democrats say Republican governors who won't expand Medicaid because it's expensive are liars.
Mitt Romney's allies leaked the idea that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was near the top on the candidate's list of potential running mates to The Drudge Report Thursday evening, making a lot of people laugh in the process.
When Mitt Romney was running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, it was in his interest to make his exit date from Bain Capital a little fuzzy.
Matt Drudge is reporting the Romney campaign's narrowed their choices for Vice President down to a carefully vetted handful, and that the front runner is none other than former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
After battles over the precise nature of Mitt Romney's role at Bain Capital, it would appear his campaign biography is now that he was a successful business executive who built a fabulous job-creating machine which, the moment he stepped away from it, turned into the pits of Mordor.
President Obama revealed what he believes is "the mistake" of his first term, during a sit down with CBS This Morning's Charlie Rose Thursday, and it's kind of... not the mistake we're used to hearing about from his opponents.
It doesn't matter how rich Romney is except when it might, and some conflicting news for Obama when it comes to health care and immigration. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
In every campaign he's run in the last 10 years, Mitt Romney has claimed he made a clean break from Bain Capital in February 1999 as a way to defend himself from charges that he laid off workers and outsourced jobs overseas. But more and more evidence is mounting that the break wasn't so clean.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The Romney-as-outsourcer drum bangs on. Mother Jones reports Romney invested millions of dollars in a Chinese company that relied almost entirely on outsourcing while at Bain Capital, and invested with his Bermudan company as well
Mitt Romney made a real facial expression today when he was greeted by boos while addressing the NAACP.
Polls today show Obama is doing well among single, eastern and nonwhite voters. The Midwest and West look trickier for him, but he maintains leads in swing state polls. Here's our guide to the day's polls and which ones matter.
You can see why Mitt Romney and President Obama love claiming the other is an outsourcer. Still, it's important to know that some of the outsourcing claims check out more than others. Here's a guide to both sides.
It's been awhile since Vice President Joe Biden made us chortle with some salty off-the-cuff remark, so here he is Tuesday musing on the, erm, parental mechanics that spawned his crowded house he and his three siblings grew up in.
When asked Tuesday if Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said no, and seemed to imply that those who want to see them are just jealous of Romney's success.
In today's polls, the presidential race looks tight, but Obama looks the same as he did four years ago in Virginia and North Carolina. Here's our guide to the day's polls and which ones matter.
Democrats face a dilemma in picking the perfect face for the rich undeserving of their Bush tax cuts: An ugly old man few people have heard of? Or an attractive young woman everyone's heard of?
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman not only had six meetings with Mitt Romney's top aides, he met with Beth Myers, the woman vetting Romney's vice president possibilities.
President Obama hasn't been able to convince Americans he's doing a better job on the economy, but he has managed to convince some of them that Mitt Romney did bad things at Bain Capital.
Donald Trump will be awarded the title of "2012 Statesman of the Year" by the Sarasota Republican Party a single day before the Republican National Convention. It's the grandest imaginable title from the dinkiest possible entity.
During the Republican primary, it seemed like Mitt Romney was the luckiest guy in the world -- he was born rich and handsome, and his competitors were buffoons. Now it seems like President Obama is the lucky one.
Several Republican congressmen are complaining about how Democratic operatives are videotaping their homes and then uploading the raw footage to the Internet. It's a creepy little practice, to be sure, but it also provides a window on how political parties, campaigns, and Super PACs work together using the web to build attack ads in the age of Citizens United.
President Obama raised $71 million in June, but that's $35 million less than Mitt Romney, the president said in an email to supporters Monday. "We still got beat. Handily."
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
Democrats came out swinging on Sunday, taking coordinated shots across the Sunday shows at Romney's questionable offshore finances, while poor Bobby Jindal was left to defend Romney.
The most important rule of presidential vacations is this: Never let people take pictures of you on vacation.
This is just a very unfortunate story: The owner of the Akron restaurant where President Barack Obama dropped in for breakfast Friday morning died a few hours after serving him, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
Presidential campaigns are like Mortal Kombat, where the press sets up an artificial battle between the candidates over the news item of the day, and the candidate who wins is the one with the very best official response.
Conservatives might talk about running the government like a business, but they don't actually think we should do that.
The United States added just 80,000 jobs last month, keeping the unemployment rate at an annoyingly high 8.2 percent, despite Thursday's hopeful figures on jobless benefit claims and ADP's private employment estimate.
Mitt Romney was the candidate who inspired the least creative fan art during the 2012 Republican primary.
By the time we find out who the next president will be, Americans are going to be very tired, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Mitt Romney's campaign raised $100 million in June, Politico's Mike Allen reports, which makes that his best month this campaign and will likely beat President Obama's fundraising total for the same period.
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