In a new interview with CNN's Gloria Borger, Romney showed he's still not a natural in dealing with the press. When asked if he had hard feelings about Chris Christie praising President Obama after Sandy, Romney said no. Instead? "I wish the hurricane hadn't happened when it did because it gave the president a chance to look presidential." There's more.
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.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both believed the public polls were wrong, and that they'd win on Election Day. Their wives did, too.
Supporters of President Obama celebrated his reelection in a variety of ways, like getting tipsy, or partying in front of the White House. But that wasn't serious enough for some Obama fans.
Since Nate Silver was also declared one of Tuesday night's election winners two competing memes involving the now heroic statistician have popped up on Twitter: "Drunk Nate Silver" and #natesilverfacts.
Mitt Romney's campaign has admitted President Obama won Florida, and an adviser thinks they might have given it away.
If we want to know which way the Republican Party is headed after its big losses on Tuesday, it helps to look at how conservatives are explaining Mitt Romney's loss to themselves.
Maddie McCaskill, daughter of Sen. Claire McCaskill, along with her sister Lily became a subject of social media and fashion fixation. Now recovered from her post-election hangover, she tells The Atlantic Wire what it's like to be an Election Night meme.
While Karl Rove was battling Fox News' own Decision Desk over the network's calling Ohio -- and thus the presidency -- for President Obama, Mitt Romney had given up.
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To add insult to conservative injury, the right can't even say that its television network won last night. But we shouldn't revel in that too much.
Not even 24 hours since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama, the Republicans advisers have begun floating theories for why he failed to defeat a less popular incumbent in a weak economy.
Obama may have won last night, and so did Nate Silver, but another victor in the election was the Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling.
The best moment on television Election Night was when Karl Rove picked a fight with the usually nameless and faceless Fox News guys who crunch the numbers and call the winners—and lost. Why'd he do that?
On Tuesday, California voters overwhelmingly approved two ballot initiatives that were sharply opposed by the very same "victims" they were allegedly designed to protect.
In both 2008 and 2012, there were distinct geographic areas that bucked the nationwide trend toward one party. In both elections, they're legacies of America's racial divisions.
Last night Obama called Joe Biden a "happy warrior." There have been others before him.
A handful of students caused a bit of a stir on the University of Mississippi campus last night, when their impromptu protest of President Obama's victory sparked rumors of a post-election riots.
While the Tea Party won Republicans a majority in the House in 2010, election night 2012 showed the party's message is toxic at the national and statewide levels.
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After weeks of bearing the brunt of anti-poll, anti-math attacks from people on the right, Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight election model can finally send the world a big fat "I Told Ya So."
Among the themes of second-guessing and deep regret that are emerging of rubble of last night's defeats is the thought that the Senate could be under the control of Republicans right now if weren't for their habit of running supremely unlikable candidates.
NBC's Brian Williams called out Donald Trump for being an arrogant blowhard during NBC's election coverage, but there's one small problem. NBC gives Trump his biggest platform of all.
Obama took the stage at his campaign headquarters in Chicago.
Fox News went to war with its own decision desk on Election Night.
Once again, Diane Sawyer helped to lead ABC's Election Night coverage, and once again, she appeared entirely intoxicated while doing so. At least, that's what Twitter thought.
So far, Bill O'Reilly is in the lead for the Controversial Election Day Rant Award with his bold statements on Fox News about how "the white establishment is now the minority."
The early election returns and exit polls had little good news for Mitt Romney, and you could see it on the Fox News election team's faces.
The election has not gone well for the Republican rape gaffe candidates. Votes are still being counted, but so far, they've lost.
If for some incredible reason you managed to miss the entire news cycle of the 2012 presidential elections, you could learn a lot about the campaigns and the candidates from their victory parties on Election Day.
Not even a 'heel turn' could help her. Linda McMahon lost her second bid for a senate seat in Connecticut to Democratic challenger Chris Murphy. The Associated Press called the race in Murphy's favor already.
If you're young, Internet-savvy, and lacking cable, you might be looking for ways to watch election results online. It's okay, we're here to help you.
This is our live results page. What you'll find here is the up-to-the-minute electoral vote count, which states are being called for whom and by whom, and how the battleground battles are shaking out.
Obama wins Ohio, and with it, the presidency.
All the top pundits in the talking head business say this presidential election was totally lame, riddled with "smallness," lacking "bigness," focused on petty complaints instead of big issues. What planet are they on?
CNN, the network that earned mockery for bringing us interviews "via hologram" on election night 2008, will once again engage in some visual silliness as they measure tonight's returns. The network will be measuring electoral votes on the Empire State Building.
Once you've voted there's not much else to do on Election Day other than sit around and wait for results to actually start pouring in. So what better way to get through this time than to click on some mindless election-related single-serving websites?
Running as a down-ballot Republican in a deep blue state has its challenges, but Senate candidate Linda McMahon might have found a last-minute solution: Pretend you're not a Republican!
Perhaps you just passed the two-hour mark standing in line to vote as frozen tears inched down your face and your toes started dying one by one, which happened to me earlier this morning. Well, cheer up, because someone somewhere in America probably has it worse than you.
The importance of Ohio to this presidential race has been repeated again and again as Election Day approached, but as voters go to the polls, how important is just one vote in the state?
Democracy is tedious. It is tedious to run for office, it is tedious to hear from people running for office, it is tedious to vote for the person running for office. The goal of a political campaign is to make that second part as unavoidable and the third point as tedium-free as possible.
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Joe Biden got up early to cast his vote in Greenville, Delaware, this morning and not only has he not stopped running for office, he may have already started on his next campaign.
Although they don't get a vote, there have been a lot of questions about who the rest of the world would like like to see leading the United States for the next four years, and now least one faction of the Syria civil war has made their opinion known.
The tiny New Hampshire town that is famous for being the first polling place in the nation to open each Election Day cast ten votes last night and turned the presidential race into a actual dead heat.
Some time between waiting for his appearance on The Colbert Report and fighting off math-hating haters, New York Times future predictor Nate Silver went all in on Obama Monday night.
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