We now know what Barry Obama and his date looked like at prom in 1979 — and they probably looked better than you. Just compare the Obama crew's not-horrible prom fashion to many politicians' prom photos they might wish hadn't been dug up.
A Time story about "senior advisor" Gabriel Schoenfeld offers a sneak peek at his short eBook, A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign, which comes out on May 14. The gist: Romney should have listened to Schoenfeld more. Duh.
She promised to stay in the business world then, but here's how President Obama's kiss-worthy new Cabinet member-to-be now stacks up against his temporary worst enemy. Just count the dollar signs.
Long portrayed as technologically aloof, the end of the comeback week gives us a portrait of Bush fully in thrall to consumer technology, leveraging the iPad not to check and respond to email but to express himself in art. Yes, he learned how to paint on an app.
After his much-discussed arrest on Tuesday, the charges against Adam Savader were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, and they are disturbing reflections of a young man with access to power, turned very pushy — and very sexually aggressive — with a virtual toolbox of creepiness at his disposal.
The words "47 percent" were the death blow to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign — even he admits it was "completely wrong." So why on Earth is Rep. Rob Woodall, a Republican from Georgia who sits on Paul Ryan's House Budget Committee, saying Mitt was so right?
A Republican Party website is going to try to reach young people by stealing the jokey lists and memes from BuzzFeed. While it's funny to imagine "stuffy white men" (the RNC's words!) brainstorm OMG LOL listicles, this is not cosnervatives' first attempt to tap the power of social media to make their ideas go viral.
Mitt Romney is hosting a mixer in Park City, Utah this summer to unite "political, business and other thought leaders," according to the Chicago Tribune, but you probably aren't invited unless you're a future Republican contender for President or a deep-pocketed donor.
As Mitt Romney inched closer to the Republican nomination, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich considered fusing their campaigns, according to new revelations from a Santorum advisor. The plan never came to be — but it doesn't matter. It wouldn't have worked.
The lessons the Republican National Committee learned from the 2012 elections is that both the party's message and its policy needs fixing.
There were really two CPACs this weekend: official CPAC and angry CPAC. This is where you could see the conflict between the party's attempt to get new voters and the rebellion of its old ones.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the presidential primary straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday with 25 percent of attendees' votes, just ahead of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who also got 25 percent.
Taking the CPAC stage to cheers for his first major speech since November, Romney did not in any way name what his mistakes might be, instead reprising a 2012 stump speech for a 2013 version of the party that he left necessarily vague.
Why did Republicans lose the 2012 elections when so many Republicans really didn't like President Obama?
The only things that have changed from the bracket-laden budget fight of the campaign are a few specific numbers, like switching the second two in "2012" to a three. Indeed, Washington is gearing up for an Obama-Ryan budget rematch — and it's a contest that each side seems all too eager to have.
Meet Scott Prouty. On any given day you might find him tending bar, saving women from crocodile-infested waters or recording videos that change the course of history. No big deal.
Later today, Americans will finally get to meet the cater-waiter who recored and then leaked the video revealing Mitt Romney's now infamous "47 percent" comments.
Mitt Romney, businessman, is back in action. According to NBC News, the former presidential candidate and private equity baron has been hired by Solamere Capital, a Massachusetts-based PE firm co-founded and run by his son, Tagg.
Until Donald Trump's invitation was announced on Tuesday afternoon, this year's Conservative Political Action Conference was mostly in the news for the uninvited guests — their sins were unforgivable. But what do the forgivable CPAC invitees say about the conservative agenda right now? That's where things get weird.
What's surprising about Pew Research's study suggesting that sentiment on Twitter often doesn't track with public opinion isn't that this happens — it's that the extremes are fairly ideologically balanced.
Failed Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's first official interview since losing aired on Sunday. Guess what? He totally thought he was going to win, until, y'know, he lost.
His day-to-day activities, as captured in photographs leading up to his big post-election interview this weekend, bear the scars of his vertiginous fall from presidential candidate to private citizen.
Along with eyebrow-raising support from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, Chris Christie today got a contribution from another perhaps-unexpected source: Mitt Romney.
Jimmy Carter knows why President Obama was re-elected. According to the former one-term president, it wasn't Obama's first-term achievements or his limber campaign staff that secured his second victory. It was Jimmy Carter's grandson.
Mitt Romney will give a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, his first public speaking appearance since conceding defeat on election night, the National Review's Robert Costa reports.
During the 2012 Republican primary, several candidates were criticized as unserious hustlers who cared less about America's problems than getting more famous into order to sell books — or get a Fox News contract like the one Herman Cain landed on Friday. Well, it's a year later. How did everyone do?
Peter Wensierski on the polarizing pope, Greg Sargent on Ted Nugent's friends in D.C., Sam Lagrone on looming Navy cuts, Jeffrey Toobin on vanishing Republicans, and Andrew Ross Sorkin on an elite LinkedIn.
As Republicans grilled Hillary Clinton on the Obama administration's response to Benghazi in congressional hearings Wednesday, they repeatedly hit on a talking point that doesn't seem like it'd do them a lot of good: It's been four months.
George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, even Oprah Winfrey — the famous people who didn't attend Barack Obama's second inauguration say as much about the ceremony as those who did turn up.
As the new Congress certified President Obama's win in the electoral college, word came of the official final count from the Associated Press: the man behind the 47-percent video won over exactly 47.2 percent of America.
If you thought the tale of how Mitt Romney lost the general election was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never wanted to be President anyway.
If you thought Mitt Romney wasted his money on advertising, you won't believe how much of yours his transition team spent on furniture and BlackBerrys.
A new e-book offers more insight into Romney's micomanagement approach to politics, and the three big ways in which it failed him.
On Friday, the TMZ cycle whirled on, when Romney's name got pulled into a petty crime. A man wearing a Romney mask robbed a bank in Sterling, Virginia, Point Break-style.
Mitt Romney lost women voters by 12 percentage points, but he lost women donors by way more.
Forget for a moment whether they were true or not, and that one of them earned the title of "Lie of the Year" today. When it came to the biggest expenditure of his presidential campaign — TV ads — the technocratic and data-loving Mitt Romney allowed his campaign to waste a shocking amount of money.
Mitt Romney's campaign ad claiming President Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" — implying Ohio jobs were being shipped overseas — has been awarded PolitiFact's dubious achievement.
The gods of irony have smiled once again and played with a new Politico poll: only 47 percent of likely voters now view Romney and Paul Ryan favorably.
Mitt and Ann Romney have largely stayed out of the public eye since losing the election a little over a month ago. Last night they made their first public appearance together at a rather unlikely event -- a boxing match.
Reports have surfaced today that Romney visited the institution of American commerce known as Costco this week — and looked way more dweeby than Joe Biden when the vice-president shopped at the superstore just days earlier.
Not that it will pay him much, or that he hasn't held it before, but Romney will rejoin the board of directors at Marriott, the exclusive hotel of the campaign announced Monday.
Now that Mitt Romney has lost and faded into a life of McDonald's, dad jeans, and Disneyland, his campaign advisers can talk freely about how badly they blew the election. This afternoon, at last, comes the truth about the video that sent their candidate spiraling.
If you're wondering how the Romney family is holding up post-election loss, the answer is: not well. Mitt has resorted to retail therapy, and Ann might be the most disappointed Romney of all.
Romney's campaign has insisted that its internal polls showed a much closer race. Now comes word that the campaign has revealed some of those poll numbers to The New Republic's Noam Schieber, and the magic numbers are not what you'd expect.
Mitt Romney's campaign manager Stuart Stevens has offered up a counter-history of the 2012 presidential election, the kind you might imagine coming from lefties like Howard Zinn or Oliver Stone — if the purpose weren't to protect the reputation of a former private-equity executive.
The White House says there will be no press coverage of Obama and Romney's meeting, but luckily we have a long photo archive of past presidents' microexpressions giving away exactly how they feel about the other guy.
Thursday's lunch, between a couple of men who didn't seem terribly keen on each other just a few weeks ago, brings up a host of modern-day etiquette questions. Here, we do our best to answer them.
The White House just announced that Mitt Romney will be having lunch with President Obama tomorrow at the White House. That ugly campaign will make this whole thing awkward, right? Well, Obama told us exactly three weeks ago this would be happening.
The race to become the presumed frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination feels awfully hot given that the 2012 election is all of three weeks old. But still, here are the guys ready to make a few tweaks and usher in a new Republican era, like, right now.
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