Authorities have confirmed tor the first time ever, that hackers attempted and almost succeeded at rigging a Miami primary vote, uncovering underlying security issues with the online voting systems of the future.
The rehabilitation of Todd Akin has been steadily moving along this week. One of the leaders of the renewed interest in Akin, Sen. Jim DeMint, is one of four prominent Republicans hosting a lunch for the Missouri Senate candidate in Washington this week.
Has your criticism with this election season's crop of infographics been that they have involved too few balloons? The Guardian has you covered.
Barack Obama must be the luckiest dude on the planet, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, because something is happening to Mitt Romney: He is getting dumber and dumber as the election goes on.
It's been a 48 hours for the Romney campaign, and the cracks are beginning to show. The New York Times' Michael Barbaro reports aides are starting to lose their cool behind the scenes, and wondering if there's still hope.
The Romney campaign in a bit of disarray right now, with the release of the damaging '47 percent' video, and this isn't helping anything. Turns out, the campaign everyone thinks is a financial juggernaut is in debt.
David Letterman lucked out. He is the first interview Obama had booked after Mother Jones' wild 47 percent video hit. Sitting with Letterman, he said he doesn't think 47 percent of the country is entitled at all. "There are not a lot of people," who think they're entitled, he said.
Mitt Romney was supposed to be interviewed by CBS's Scott Pelley today for 60 Minutes, but amid the chaos surrounding the Libya story they forced to reschedule. CBS was still able to find time for the President, though.
While the DNC's TV ratings might not correlate to more votes for Obama, high viewership of either convention may correlate to higher voter turnout, according to this chart by Jordan Ragusa on the blog Rule 22.
These donation websites have the trappings of official campaign pages: smiling candidate photos and videos, issue pages, and a large, red “donate” button at the top. Except that the money goes to an obscure conservative group run by an Arizona activist.
Much of the Internet appeared awash with love for Michelle Obama last night, and today, as the analyses of her speech at the Democratic National Convention come through, there is more praise, much of it dealing with Michelle as the self-dubbed "mom-in-chief."
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show team head to Charlotte for the DNC, and Stewart's appalled at the Democrat's poor response to the question "Are we better off?"
This campaign is so boring, pool reporters told us today. The excitement is gone and everyone's focusing too much on gaffes. They're alls starting to feel burnt out from the non-stop, non-existent news cycle. Pool reporters, we're here to tell you, "it get's better."
Leading into this week's Democratic National Convention, the question everyone's either asking or answering is, "Are we better off than we were four years ago?" Republicans are using it as an attack, and the Democrats are on their heels trying to answer.
Well, Bill knows. Clinton is scheduled to be one of Wednesday's top speakers at the Democratic National Convention, but no one has any idea what he's going to say. He hasn't submitted his speech for the usual vetting process yet, and some people are getting a touch nervous.
It is hard to go from cultural darling to elder statesman. That, essentially, is the takeaway from Alex Williams' piece in the New York Times reflecting upon how a bunch of formerly cool-kid Gen Xers feel about having one of their cohort, Paul Ryan, 42, running for vice president.
It seems all cute and quirky and fun that President Obama's campaign emailed supporters four GIFs of the president giving fans high-fives. But do not be fooled. This is like the days in 2006 when the first old people started getting on Facebook.
The Romney campaign doesn't have the most stellar track record with smart phone apps (remember Amercia?), but it nonetheless plans to announce his vice-presidential pick via app, even though you can rest assured it will leak out on Twitter first.
We still don't know who Mitt Romney is going to choose to be his running mate yet, but the one thing we can be pretty sure of is his choice won't inspire the same kind of fundraising spike that Sarah Palin brought the McCain campaign. Bobby Jindal could be the exception, though.
The Obama campaign's latest ad takes you on an offshore vacation to hot button destinations like Mexico, China, Switzerland, India, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands while being serenaded by the man with the smoothest voice in America, Mitt Romney.
By now, Karl Rove's juggernaut fundraising vehicle Crossroads GPS is famous for its influence and wealth. What's less visible is one of its principal financiers: casino mogul Steve Wynn, a billionaire ex-Democrat who voted for President Obama in 2008.
The Romney campaign was so offended when Democrats used the Sunday talk shows to question Romney's Swiss bank account, but then the Obama campaign fired a catty response right back. These two are fighting and gossiping like high school girls.
When Romney's campaign made such a big deal over the donations they received the day SCOTUS ruled the Affordable Care Act was constitutional, the Obama campaigned stayed tightlipped. But something's changed, and now they're claiming they out-raised the GOP juggernaut.
The Romney campaign is finalizing the plans for a quick little jaunt across the world at the end of this month to make a big foreign policy push.
We already know about the Romney Olympics, the annual fourth of July family competition that can get pretty competitive, but we wondered what else the Romney family likes to do while on vacation at their New Hampshire home. So, we did some digging and found out.
The Romney campaign packed up their things for a weekend getaway in Park City, Utah, where top campaign supporters got to mingle with some of the GOP's mast famous faces, including runaway comedy star of the weekend Karl Rove.
Mitt Romney talks immigration, bailing out Europe, health care and tax reform in huge interview with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation; McCain says he's worried about campaign finance scandals; Santorum talks immigration and his role in a potential Romney administration.
Mitt Romney had a full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania on Saturday that included a joke, a flub, and some talk about the economy.
Does Barack Obama's have "very high" "geek quotient" as chief technology officer -- a.k.a official White House geek -- Todd park claimed today in a CNN interview?
Woodward and Bernstein talk leaks on CBS; McCain and Axelrod spar over Eric Holder on CNN; Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels think Wisconsin spells the end of public-employee unions. Oh, and two more names can be crossed off the VP watch list.
The Obama campaign is shedding the traditional campaign model and focusing its advertising efforts on the Internet, a gamble that could cost them dearly, or help them write the book on how candidates engage their base online.
Rand Paul endorsed the GOP's last man standing during an appearance on Fox News's Hannity on Thursday night.
The President's campaign is opening up a new front in its re-election fight by turning the focus to Mitt Romney's "broken promises" as Governor of Massachusetts.
Joe Biden said he's "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex marriage on NBC's Meet the Press; Marco Rubio attacked the President's economic policies while deflecting questions over whether or not he'll accept a VP nomination.
President Obama didn't hold back when talking about his opponent, Mitt Romney, during a thirty five minute speech he gave on the Ohio University campus, the first of two major political rallies on Saturday that are meant to be the kickoff of his reelection campaign.
Mitt Romney's campaign has set a fundraising target of $800 million for this election cycle, setting up a race with President Obama that could see each side spending more than $1 billion by November.
Unlike most of the Republican field, no one thought Rick Santorum was running to sell books or win a Fox News job. It's a good thing, too, because the most memorable moments of the Santorum campaign were accidents — most of them unhappy ones.
We're slowly getting a fuller picture of what the die-hard Mitt Romney fan looks like: a lover of online quizzes, photos, and Williams Sonoma, a hater of gambling and nunchucks.
Thanks to Citizens United and other recent court decisions, individuals, corporations and unions can make unlimited donations to so-called super PACs that support a candidate. The money is flowing in. So, exactly who is donating, and what do they want?
Senator Roy Blunt's bill to exempt employers from providing contraceptives serves no other purpose other than giving politicians on both sides something to point to when November's election rolls around. Mitt Romney, for one, was "too confused" to take advantage of the opportunity.
President Obama mocked Mitt Romney’s stance on the automobile industry, telling autoworkers that the former Massachusetts governor’s recent statements are an effort to “rewrite history” and “a load of you-know-what.”
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is pleading -- for at least the third time -- for someone better to get in the Republican presidential primary at the last minute and save the party from the current candidates.
It was one of those opposition research kind of nights on The Daily Show, and the host delivered a simple message about Newt Gingrich to GOP voters: "Don't do this."
With Newtmentum grinding to a halt, the candidate looks like he got some good news today: Politico is reporting that billionaire Sheldon Adelson will be donating $20 million to a pro-Gingrich super PAC to bolster his efforts in the face of Romney's attack ads.
The editors of the National Review have some good news -- conservatives are unified in what policies they want enacted, and the White House is winnable -- but there's also some bad news: Republican voters are on the verge of nominating a guy who will fail at one or both those things.
With each passing day the initially-hilarious notion of The Donald Trump Debate gets less humorous, today even more so after Rick Perry wisely declined the mogul's supposed invitation that couldn't be refused.
A couple GOP strategists, Ari Fleischer and Nicholas Thompson, have some words of advice on how best to attack the president: stick to branding him a flip-flopper and skip the personal critiques because people actually like the president as a person.
With Newtmentum still chugging along, Mitt Romney has unveiled a secret weapon to halt his sluggish polling: an endorsement from former vice president Dan Quayle?
What it means, no one seems to be quite sure, but Herman Cain will announce something he thinks is "major" on Saturday in Atlanta.
As a recent study claiming to measure how many votes Obama lost in 2008 because of racism demonstrates why it's problematic to rely on Google search results as a metric for racist voting patterns.
A new poll released by Rasmussen Reports shows Gingrich has support from 38 percent of likely Republican primary voters while Mitt Romney gets only 17 percent.
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