As Congress returns to a continued hiatus in the Senate's push for a return to expanded gun control legislation, opponents of new measures have hunkered down while advocates of stronger laws desperately look for a way back in.
After last night's debate, fact checkers at the Associated Press, The Washington Post and Foreign Policy accused Vice President Joe Biden of misstating facts about the security situation in Libya, but this morning, Biden has found a way to wiggle out of the salivating maw of his fact-checking foes.
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.
Last night sitting Vice President Joe Biden faced off against Republican nominee Paul Ryan for the first—and only—VP debate we're going to get this year. Was there excitement? There was some excitement! Here we're going to talk mostly about the semantics and style of the debate.
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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.
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.
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.
Reince Priebus lowers the expectations for Paul Ryan's debate performance because he just loves Joe Biden's debating skills so much; David Axelrod praises Mitt's performance while explaining the Obama campaign has reviewed the tape and adjusted their strategy for the next debate.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama accuses Mitt Romney of using coal miners as props, Romney talks straight into the camera again, the Romney campaign admits Joe Biden is better at selling their economic message, and an anti-immigration group targets black voters.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pulls triple duty -- appearing on Face the Nation, This Week, and Meet the Press -- to tell the whole world how he thinks Wednesday night's debate is going to change the face of the election forever.
Here's a handy compendium of additional crutch words, those verbal (and sometimes written) pause words that we just can't seem to help using, even as we know we shouldn't. You know?
President Obama and Joe Biden had two strange, but similar photos taken of them on Sunday afternoon. Both men got a little, uhm, physical on the campaign trail.
According to Washington, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan have the "blue collar appeal" and "working class roots" that Mitt Romney and President Obama lack. But in reality, all of these men have only the faintest ties to blue-collar work -- you know, manual labor in factories or mines or construction sites.
Vice President Joe Biden may be the only public speaker who veers off course more than Bill Clinton, but a comparison of his written and spoken text from last night's convention address reveals a very different lesson in the art of speech making.
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.
Now that President Obama has stepped up and participated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian has extended an offer to Mitt Romney to face Redditors as well. Ohanian told The Atlantic Wire that he wants Reddit to become an "expected campaign stop."
A new poll shows that registered voters by a small margin think Mitt Romney will do a better job with Medicare, but the same poll shows opposition to Ryan's plan for the program. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
It's nice to get an atta-boy, especially after a tough week, especially from the president, so the tweet from President Barack Obama reaffirming his support for Vice President Joe Biden had to feel good.
Vice President Joe Biden will show up in Tampa on the first night of his opponents' special celebration, the Republican National Convention, and give a speech outside.
Joe Biden's middle class patois was in rare form today as he puffed up his NASCAR bonafides on the campaign trail.
Vice President Joe Biden was doing fine when he warned a crowd at The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Virginia on Tuesday that Mitt Romney wants to "unchain Wall Street!" with a dramatic clenching of his fist, bringing boos from the crowd. Then Biden got into trouble. "They're gonna put y'all back in chains."
The Commission on Presidential Debates released dates and details Wednesday so mark your calendar for a tension-filled Halloween season!
After Mitt Romney's boo-filled warmup act yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden took the stage at the NAACP's annual convention in Houston today and brought down the house.
It's been awhile since Vice President Joe Biden made us chortle with some salty off-the-cuff remark, so here he is Tuesday musing on the, erm, parental mechanics that spawned his crowded house he and his three siblings grew up in.
If you want a visual guide to how the right's anger over Obamacare has evolved over time, you need to look at T-shirts.
Look at 2012 as labor’s rude welcome to politics in a post-Citizens United world.
Joe Biden spent his Saturday having way more fun than you did. Every year he invites the press and their families for a water fight at his home. He usually loses.
The Los Angeles Times' Michael Memoli has a very fun profile of Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday, focusing on his "everyman appeal," but some points in the portrait actually provide a neat primer—paging, Mitt Romney!—for talking about personal wealth with voters.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Margaret Carlson on Rob Portman, Tom Frost on big banks, Ruth Marcus on John Edwards, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. on Facebook's IPO, and George Packer on Biden and LBJ
Five years ago, Jason Horowitz, author of the fascinating history of Mitt Romney's teenage bullying in The Washington Post, wrote another story that seemed to offer unsettling insight into the character of a presidential candidate: Joe Biden.
Perhaps an answer to the question on just how deliberate Vice President Biden's pre-emptive same-sex marriage endorsement was: He apologized to President Obama for jumping the gun, The New York Times reports.
What would be the worst possible news for Mitt Romney to have to deal with the day after President Obama announced he supports gay marriage?
Biden cleared the path for President Obama to declare to ABC's Robin Roberts that he now supports gay marriage. He set in motion a three-day saga that dominated the political air space.
Though most people assumed President Obama privately supported gay marriage, many were surprised he decided to say so publicly, especially now. But before the story gets rewritten, let's take a look at the chain of events in the recent history of the news cycle that led to Wednesday's announcement, which all trace back to one man: anti-gay Christian activist, Bryan Fischer.
For the past four years we've watched the media portray of the Obama-Biden ticket as politics' Odd Couple, and thanks to Mark Leibovich's profile on Joe Biden in The New York Times, we now know how hard it is for an alpha dog like Biden to be Obama's sidekick.
When Vice President Joe Biden said he supported gay marriage on Meet the Press Sunday, was it a Kinsley gaffe -- as in, did Biden accidentally say what he really thinks? Or did the White House only try to make it seem like an accident?
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.
Quick: Who's wackier, Vice President Joe Biden or The Onion's depiction of Vice President Joe Biden? As regular readers of "America's Finest News Source" know, Biden has long been a figure of fun, but lately, in real life, Biden has started to resemble his Onion alter-ego.
President Obama could always count on the killing of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, who died one year ago, to bolster the argument he deserves reelection. But as he and his political allies have demonstrated this past week, they aren’t content to use the terrorist’s death only to build up Obama—they want to use it to tear down Mitt Romney.
Joe Biden's best line in the 2008 Democratic primary was that Rudy Giuliani's entire campaign was "a noun, a verb, and bin Laden." In the vice president's foreign policy speech Thursday, he said "bin Laden" 12 times.
Vice President Joe Biden sounds he's moving from blue humor ("how big a stick is it?") to insult comedy, telling a room full of donors at a breakfast event that they looked, "dull as hell."
"I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you," said Joe Biden in New York today.
It's weird that the emerging consensus on HBO's Veep is that it's unenjoyable because it's not realistic, and it's not realistic because it's too cynical, given that the meme for the last two or 20 years has been that Washington is broken.
The best outtakes from the Sunday morning political talk shows.
The toy has been a thorn in the side of Mitt Romney ever since a senior aide first used its magical erasing properties to describe the campaign. Now the vice president and Ron Paul have joined the pile-on.
A Washington Post profile of Joe Biden calls him the Obama administration's "traveling everyman," and he's got a simple strategy to connect with every man (and woman) in the far-flung parts of America he visits: He'll figure out how he's related to them.
Hillary Clinton is already an odds-on favorite to run for president in 2016, if you take your odds from people like Maureen Dowd and Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House a little more than an hour ago and had a chat with Vice President Joe Biden before meeting with the president.
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