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.
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.
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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.
Apparently not everyone likes a rematch. Numbers are down across the board for last night's debate. We're a little less than three weeks away from the election's end, but everyone is getting jaded. You can't deny it, either. The truth is in the numbers.
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.
Today in Poll Watch: Insta-polls give President Obama the second debate, and the Connecticut Senate race is still in a dead heat.
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.
If everyone remembers the last debate for Romney's leveraging Big Bird to make a point about budget cuts, they'll remember this one for another fairly confusing Romney phrase: "binders full of women."
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.
Despite griping from both parties for tonight's debate moderator Candy Crowley to stay quiet, she's been given free reign to ask as many follow up questions as she sees fit.
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 Gallup tracking poll is treated, appropriately or not, like a heartbeat, like blood pressure, as an indicator of the health of the candidates.Should it be? What does it mean? What can you learn from it? Consider this your registered nurse training in the reading of campaign vital signs. Or, more to the point: consider this Polling 101.
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.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be sacrificing herself for the sake of the administration after she took the blame for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi and controversial aftermath.
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.
With less than 48-hours to go before the big night, arguments over the rules and procedures for the presidential next debate are already underway.
It's hardly a surprise that billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are supporting Romney in the upcoming election, but their efforts to persuade tens of thousands employees to do the same is curious to say the least.
Whether you like it or not, the Obama and Romney campaigns have been using cookies and data miners to track what you're up to on the web.
Campaign flacks pump up expectations ahead of Tuesday's debate while other are still talking about Libya fallout. Also, Stephen Colbert explains Rachel Maddow's heavy influence on his show.
Mitt Romney didn't stay in Massachusetts very much while he was governor, according to a new investigation by the New York Times.
There might not be a more recognizable voice in America than Morgan Freeman, so the President exercised some common sense and got the famous actor to narrate his new ad.
President Obama will go on The Daily Show on October 18, continuing his tour of friendly chat shows like The View and Nickelodeon.
Summer is now a distant memory, and the presidential campaigns have moved from sweating through parades to engaging in wholesome fall festivities to convince the plebes they are Just Like Us.
Though the Internet has not universally declared a winner of the vice-presidential debate—unlike the way all of tweeting America agreed President Obama lost the presidential debate—one thing is clear in the aftermath: the only thing anyone cares about is Joe Biden and his crazy face.
You may remember Jim Lehrer taking a beating after the last Presidential debate. Martha Raddatz, a reporter for ABC News, is moderating tonight's Vice-President debate. The people love her. They really, really love her.
Today in Poll Watch: Voters in three swing states see more strong leadership qualities in Romney than Obama; in another poll of swing states we find the debate didn't change that many people's minds; a small number of debate watchers do so on two screens; and the national tracking polls once again conflict.
Did you miss the vice-presidential debate? You can read the most important words -- and even better, watch the most important facial expressions right here, because The Atlantic Wire simultaneously liveblogged and live-GIF'd the fight between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.
Wisconsin state Rep. Roger Rivard might have genuinely had no idea the Internet would explode after his "some girls rape easy" views, which would make him unique among your typical political troll.
There hasn't been a sweeping obvious change in the presidential race after Mitt Romney's victory in the first presidential debate against President Obama -- all liberal panicking aside. But several new polls released Thursday show the race is now quite close nationally and in many swing states (except Ohio), which is exactly where the race was back before the conventions.
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Paul Ryan has posed for beefcake photos in which he flexes his biceps while doing reps of what high school gym coaches nationwide call "curls for girls."
As WikiLeaks ramps up for its first document dump in months, there's a very noticeable difference in the workflow of the champions of free information. It's not exactly free any more.
Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren met in Springfield, Mass. for the third of four debates on Wednesday night, and for once, they weren't too mean to each other.
Today in Poll Watch: Paul Ryan gets better favorability ratings heading into the vice-presidential debate Thursday, national tracking polls are again unclear for both candidates, Latino voters in Arizona overwhelmingly support President Obama, and Obama's up by 4 points in Florida despite one pollster calling the state for Mitt Romney.
After being peppered with worried supporters on a radio show Wednesday, President Obama referenced a meme that went viral on the liberal Internet the first time his presidential campaign seemed to face mortal peril—in September 2008, when John McCain polled ahead of Obama the week after picking Sarah Palin as his running mate.
To capitalize on last week's debate performance success, what Romney needs is clear-eyed, smooth-talking, PowerPoint-clicking outside consultants much like the very ones he once worked with at Bain & Company so many years ago.
The only thing that can stop the liberal gnashing of teeth and rending of garments is a kick-ass debate performance from Joe Biden. Joe Biden! Joe Biden, the guy who's most vulnerable when he's riffing, is supposed to save the day.
Mitt Romney let his guard down a little bit on Tuesday, when he told the Des Moines Register that he wouldn't pursue any abortion legislation if elected to the nation's highest office.
Today in Poll Watch: Gallup's numbers today lead to varied viewpoints, favorability for both candidates are at highs, and Ohio is tight.
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch has quit his punditry gigs -- except for Twitter, of course, which is the one that got him into trouble in the first place.
President Obama's disappointing debate performance has split Democrats into two camps: those who are openly panicking, and those who want the first group to just shut up.
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