Topic: 2012 Elections

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Amy Davidson on Sasha and Malia, Gail Collins on the fiscal cliff, Maghan Daum on single women voters, Ezra Klein on the filibuster, and Ana Marie Cox on gay equality. 

By David Wagner and Esther Zuckerman

Nov 7, 2012

The Election's Gay Equality Milestones

President Obama's second term is tonight's big news, but this election could eventually be remembered more for its gay equality milestones than its presidential results. Same-sex marriage was approved in two states, a ban will likely be struck down in another, and Tammy Baldwin became America's first openly gay senator.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 30, 2012

Scott Brown Backs Out of Final Debate With Elizabeth Warren

Those expecting to see another night of on-stage fireworks between Massachusetts Senatorial candidates Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are out of luck.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 24, 2012

Believe It or Not, People Are Praising James O'Keefe's Latest Scheme

On Wednesday afternoon, James O'Keefe dropped his latest YouTube bomb and unlike his recent videos, it actually caused a stir.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Oct 19, 2012

Orlando Sentinel Backs Romney After Endorsing Obama in 2008

Mitt Romney picked up a key newspaper endorsement in the swing state of Florida, from a paper that supported the President just four years ago.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 17, 2012

Romney Told Bosses to Tell Their Employees How to Vote

Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you're a small business owner, he wants your employees' votes as well and insists that there's nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 16, 2012

The Green Party Tried and Failed to Participate in Tonight's Debate

Police arrested Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her vice presidential running mate Cheri Honkala at Hofstra University on Tuesday night just a few minutes before the start of the second Obama-Romney debate.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 16, 2012

Clint Eastwood Wasn't the Only One Winging It at the RNC

Mitt Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention didn't exactly knock anybody's socks off, and according to a new Politico exposé there's a good reason for that: it was thrown together at the last minute.

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By Connor Simpson

Aug 15, 2012

Linda McMahon Has Spent $61 Million Trying to Get Elected

Linda McMahon won her GOP Senate primary on Tuesday night after spending almost ten times as much as her opponent, but the astronomical, unbelievable number is how much she's spent trying to get elected so far: $61 million.

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By Connor Simpson

Aug 9, 2012

Rob Portman Doesn't Think He's Getting the Veep Call

Rob Portman, one of the most talked about candidates in the race to be Mitt's Vice President, appeared at a Mitt Romney fundraiser Wednesday night and said he doesn't think he's going to get the call. 

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By Adam Martin

Jul 17, 2012

John Sununu Says He Made a Mistake

John Sununu backpedaled from his attack on Barack Obama as not American enough Tuesday, apologizing for insulting the president: "I made a mistake. I shouldn't have used those words, and I apologize for using those words."

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By Adam Martin

Jul 16, 2012

Romney Aide Says No Decision Yet on V.P.

The big talk of Monday morning's political news was the New York Times' report that Mitt Romney had chosen a vice presidential candidate, but, fitting a familiar pattern in campaign news, the big Monday afternoon news is a campaign aide saying the report wasn't true.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jun 27, 2012

Orrin Hatch, Charles Rangel Easily Survive Their Primary Challenges

After a lot of hand-wringing over inter-party squabbles and the endangered incumbent, Congressional lifers Orrin Hatch and Charles Rangel easily survived their primary challenges on Tuesday, signaling almost certain re-election in the fall. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jun 11, 2012

Obama's Advisers Want You to Know He'll Be a Lame Lame Duck President

If The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza is right, we might be in for four more years of compromise on things like climate change and nuclear proliferation. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 17, 2012

Romney Probably Doesn't Think Ted Nugent is Very 'Fun' Now

The Democratic National Committee has shifted into high gear now that Mitt Romney is the guy to beat, and they're headed straight to YouTube where a video juxtaposing Romney's affection for Ted Nugent and Ted Nugent's hope that President Obama will "suck his machine gun."

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 13, 2012

Romney Pulls Out His Biggest Gun at NRA Speech: Ann

Mitt Romney didn't waste any time pulling his wife Ann into the fray at his address to the National Rifle Association on Friday,  a speech his advisors say marks the beginning of the general election.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 12, 2012

Comment of the Day

'I Understand Raising Kids is Hard Work...'

Ann Romney may not have a full-time job per se, but we can all give her credit for struggling to raise five boys, especially with of millions of dollars to pay for help.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 12, 2012

Mitt Romney Wins the Coveted Duggar Family Endorsement

Mitt Romney just got himself a small army of campaigners in the God-fearing, stringed instrument-playing, formerly Santorum-supporting Duggar family.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 12, 2012

Santorum Says Lack of Money and Press Savvy Did Him In

Recently former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum confessed his reasons for dropping out of the GOP primary race on the radio Thursday afternoon, and boy was he candid.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 10, 2012

Comment of the Day

'This Election Season Just Got a Lot More Drab'

For some people, it wasn't easy to say goodbye to Rick Santorum on Tuesday, when the Republican hopeful announced he'd be dropping out of the presidential race.

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In Pennsylvania, Romney Will Bury Santorum in TV Ads

The GOP presidential front-runner’s two-week, multimillion-dollar TV ad buy in Pennsylvania -- the media equivalent of a nuclear bomb -- delivers a powerful message to Republican voters there: You might have supported Rick Santorum when he was your U.S. senator, but I want your vote now.

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By Seth Abramovitch

Mar 24, 2012

Rick Santorum's Horror Movie Attack Ad Steals From the Best

Rick Santorum's slick new attack ad makes a second Obama term seem like the coolest thing ever. We break down its inspirations.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 22, 2012

Rick Santorum's Link to Christian Group That Wants Jews to Embrace Jesus

When preparing to run for president, it's probably best not to hide the evidence of $95,000 in speaking fees, especially when one of the organizations paying those fees is biblically controversial.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 21, 2012

Newt Gingrich Gets a New Prop

Newt Gingrich had some fun with an Etch-a-Sketch at a campaign event on Wednesday afternoon.

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By Dino Grandoni

Mar 20, 2012

Stat of the Day

62% of Voters Are Unfazed by the Seamus the Dog Story

There's some sad news for Gail Collins this morning. While 68 percent of voters agree with The New York Times columnist that it is not "humane to put your family dog in a kennel on the roof of your car for a long car trip," 62 percent also say they wouldn't hold it against Mitt Romney.

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By Seth Abramovitch

Mar 3, 2012

Obama to Rock the Barnard Commencement

President Obama has offered his oratorial services to Barnard College, the 124-year-old women's college affiliated with Columbia University, and the school has responded with an enthusiastic, "Yes, please!"

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By Dashiell Bennett

Mar 1, 2012

Republican Takeover of the Senate Looking Less Likely

The sudden retirement of long-time Maine Senator Olympia Snowe may spell the end of Republican hopes to take back the Senate this November.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 31, 2012

People Love Giving Barack Obama (Small Sums of) Money

The Obama campaign just filed its last quarter's Federal Election Commission report, revealing once again that the president's knack for microfinancing -- often through selling overpriced trinkets on his website -- is providing him with quite the war chest for next year.

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By Adam Martin

Jan 30, 2012

Take a Facebook Politics Poll, Get on a Times Square Billboard

A new Facebook app that will let you opt in to having your photo and opinion blared over Times Square after you answer a political Poll seems weighted to those who wear their politics on their sleeves.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 23, 2012

Romney Taps Michele Bachmann's Debate Coach

Everybody's making jokes about news that Mitt Romney has hired Brett O'Donnell, whom The New York Times describes as "a top debate coach" and "one of Michele Bachmann's top strategists."

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 2, 2012

Trump Says His Supporters Have Filed for His Third Party Candidacy

Possibly proving that Donald Trump still matters to some people somewhere, his supporters have allegedly filed paperwork allowing him to run as a third party candidate in Texas.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 31, 2011

Rick Santorum Looks Pretty Dashing in a Sweater Vest

The media is swarming all over Rick Santorum, who's hustling around Iowa right now in an effort to turn his recent surge in the polls into what would amount to one heck of an upset.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 31, 2011

Barack Obama Is the New Ryan Gosling

Left-leaning America snickered a little bit at the straight-forward subject line on the latest email from the Obama campaign: "Hey." 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 31, 2011

Ron Paul Now Doesn't Want to Talk to Reporters About Anything

Despite the proliferation of headlines bearing his name and past anxiety over being ignored, Ron Paul is now shying away from the television cameras and, well, the media in general.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 28, 2011

Cartoon

Republicans Shouldn't Celebrate 2011 Just Yet

Cartoonist Lisa Benson foresees a busy year for Republicans.

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By Dino Grandoni

Dec 19, 2011

Perry's Latest Oops Moment: 'Kim Jong the Second'

Another week, another Rick Perry gaffe, this time concerning the big news item of the day, the death of Kim Jong-Il.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich's Gay Half-Sister Is Voting for Obama

Ouch, Newt Gingrich's gay sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones told Rachel Maddow yester-night that she wouldn't be voting for her brother should he snag the nomination--her snag being his anti-gay rights position.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Dec 2, 2011

Cartoon

A Second Awkward Mitt Romney Interview Emerges

Cartoonist Tom Toles on Mitt Romney and his holiday wishes.

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By Connor Simpson

Nov 27, 2011

A Great Day for Gingrich News: Bill Clinton Praise Edition

After getting an endorsement from New Hampshire's Union Leader paper Sunday morning, a new video is circulating of an interview showing Bill Clinton offering some praise for his old foe and current Republican hopeful.

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By Connor Simpson

Nov 27, 2011

Gingrich Campaign Gets Major Support in New Hampshire

Newt Gingrich's campaign has added a big endorsement in the state of New Hampshire from the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Joseph McQuaid.

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By Adam Martin and Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 22, 2011

Obama Got Heckled at a New Hampshire High School

President Obama spoke in Manchester to further promote his USA Jobs Act, as he's been doing, and the heckling started right after The President said, "You guys are pretty excited to be seniors."

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 22, 2011

Romney Isn't Afraid to Say 'Obamacare' or Twist Words in His New Ad

Despite trailing Newt Gingrich in recent polls, one-time inevitable pick and perpetual second place hero Mitt Romney has his eyes set on taking down President Obama in his first ad which is airing in New Hampshire.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 21, 2011

Cartoon

The 1.8 Million Skeletons in Newt Gingrich's Closet

Cartoonist KAL on Newt Gingrich. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 16, 2011

Cain's Bodyguards Get Physical with Reporters

Journalists, consider yourselves warned. "A bodyguard for presidential candidate Herman Cain got a little physical with a Postreporter at an event in Iowa on Tuesday," The Washington Post's Aaron Blake wrote Tuesday night.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 14, 2011

Cartoon

Forgetting Rick Perry

Cartoonist Tony Auth on the Republican Primary. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 3, 2011

Even Conservatives Think Republicans Are Sabotaging the Economy to Hurt Obama

Asked, "Do you think the Republicans are intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy to insure [sic] that Barack Obama is not re-elected?" a poll found that 34 percent of Florida conservatives said yes. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 2, 2011

Jon Stewart Isn't Racist, Donald Trump Just Wants Attention

Players: Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and a not-so-good, equal-opportunity impersonator; Donald Trump, billionaire and one-time Republican frontrunner who's been impersonated (well and badly) many times.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 1, 2011

Cain Made $250,000 Off Yesterday's 'Witch Hunt'

Mark Block, chief of staff to Herman Cain, says yesterday's media frenzy over sexual harassment claims helped the campaign post one of its best fundraising days ever with $250,000 coming into the coffers. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 1, 2011

New Ad from the RNC Depicts a Nation in Crisis

Concluding "The Obama Experiment Has Failed," the Republican National Committee's new ad capitalizes on President Obama's remark in interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos last month: "Well, I don't think they're better off than they were four years ago."

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 1, 2011

Cartoon

Flip-Flopping Takes a Toll on Mitt Romney

Cartoonist Tony Auth on Mitt Romney's wavering ways. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 17, 2011

Spatwatch

Rick Santorum Can't Take Saturday Night Live's Gay Joke

Santorum thinks he's being bullied

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