Mitt Romney Finally Captures 47% of America
With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan.
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A national field director for her failed presidential campaign alleges that Bachmann refuses to pay a number of former staffers because they declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan.
This is the most expensive U.S. election in history with a total price tag of around $6 billion spent. That wouldn't be possible if not for the billionaires and the super PACS who gave and gave and gave some more. So which rich donors got the most bang out of their buck? (Hint: it's not Sheldon Adelson.)
Did the 2012 election change America? Or has America been changing all along, with our votes simply a way of registering that fact?
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.
There's a viral video going around of a voting machine in Pennsylvania that seems like its rigged—it switches votes from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney. It's just one machine, but it's also perfectly encapsulates people's Election Day fears.
Has anyone checked Aaron Copland's grave for signs of vigorous rolling? Copland, the great American composer, who was openly gay and whose politics were socialist-leaning, keeps showing up on the Republican campaign.
Mitt Romney was really concerned that his "Storm Relief Event" in Kettering, Ohio yesterday would look like a dud, so he and his team stocked their donation tables with $5,000 worth of supplies at Walmart.
There's a giant secret that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been keeping from you: the economy is actually looking pretty great. Seriously, it is.
Rep. Joe Wilson made a name for himself by calling the President a liar right in the middle of a Congressional address, which we suppose makes him an expert on when it is and isn't appropriate to call someone out on dishonesty.
If you're not as inherently excited about the prospect of tonight's debate as we are, we've put it into the context of a semantical drinking game, pairing drinks featuring low-to-high alcoholic content with the high-to-low likelihood of crutch words. Play along at home; debates start at 9 p.m. EDT.
Discovered: Nice baboons outlive mean ones; teens still drinking, but more responsibly; undecided voters 20 percent less likely to vote for Obama due to race; toddlers and the scientific method.
Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson has postponed Pennsylvania's controversial and restrictive voter identification law and ruled the the measure will not go into full effect until next year.
Former campaign staffers for Sen. John McCain's failed presidential run have told The New York Times Magazine's Robert Draper that Mitt Romney was in the same room with them almost four years ago during of the discussion the financial crisis which led to McCain deciding to suspend his campaign and return to Washington. And he wasn't much help.
Everyone is still trying to make sense (or in the Democrats' case, make hay with) Mitt Romney's disparging remarks about "the 47 percent," but where did he come with that number and why are these people not paying income taxes?
Republicans saw yesterday's protests in the Middle East as an opportunity to hit the president over foreign policy, but the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has fundamentally altered that debate.
Both presidential campaigns released their August fundraising numbers and for the first time since April, President Obama's bank account came out on top.
Fourteen years ago there was a sex scandal that rocked our nation to its core. In the wake of Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC, it rears rears its increasingly tepid head yet again. Lewinsky is a long legacy for former President Bill Clinton, but it's also a rather impotent one.
A commenter steeped in theatre compares the podium performances from Ann Romney and Michelle Obama.
The union of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has brought us many wonderful things ranging from fashion editors waxing about their sartorial choices to the wonky Medicare debate, but this beautiful relationship has also spawned something far weirder: erotic fan fiction.
In less than a week since naming Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney and his campaign have seen around $10 million in online donations, which isn't a bad haul, but they're more excited about the 68 percent bump in new donors.
Some (like John McCain) may deny similarities between the VP picks of Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin, but the Internet feels differently. Here are a few demonstrated learnings and consistencies (and predictions of further consistencies) gleaned from online reactions thus far.
Now that we know who is on both the tickets, it's time to plan your presidential debate watching parties.
The real Devil Who Wears Prada, Carrie Bradshaw, George Clooney--the Obama reelection campaign is leaving no pop-culture touchstone unturned to raise funds, now tapping cast members of The Wire and The Good Wife's Julianna Marguiles to reach quality TV fans with money.
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