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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With 47 percent of the popular vote, Mitt Romney may become the president of nothing more than Ironystan.
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Lindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal both threw Mitt Romney under the Republican bus for his controversial "gifts" comments; John McCain said he'll go easier on Susan Rice if she admits she was wrong and advocated for Bill Clinton to lead the peace talks between Israel and Gaza.
When you think of the widespread Republican condemnation of Mitt Romney for saying President Obama beat him only because he gave "gifts" to young people and minorities, it helps to think of the former presidential candidate as two men: a man who was a potential Republican president and a failed Republican nominee.
Oh Mitt Romney. We really thought we and Jon Stewart were through with you and vice versa. Thankfully you and we are not.
Some Republicans are reportedly dismayed Mitt Romney blamed his loss on President Obama buying the vote with entitlement "gifts." But shouldn't they be happy to finally have proof Romney wasn't faking it?
Even though it's been a week since the election: Mitt Romney's gaffes are still being used as fresh fodder for the Internet.
Now that the Democratic Party has fully abused and discredited Mitt Romney's economic vision for America, they've suddenly decided that maybe that one idea he had about tax deductions wasn't so crazy after all.
Republicans warned President Obama's reelection would bring about more class warfare, and it has, but not in the way they predicted: elite conservative thought leaders are blaming the party's riffraff for the GOP's unhappy election day while the riffraff blames the conservative elite for not being conservative enough.
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Both President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner have revealed their opening gambits in the great fiscal cliff chess match, and they are basically what everyone expected.
The Republican Party is having a conversation about how to reach more than old white people as voters. "What Republicans need to learn is how do we speak to all Americans," House Speaker John Boehner told ABC's Diane Sawyer.
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As Republicans continue to deconstruct the failure of the Romney campaign, volunteers have revealed that there were serious problems with GOP's whiz-bang tech solution for getting people to the polls.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan both believed the public polls were wrong, and that they'd win on Election Day. Their wives did, too.
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Supporters of President Obama celebrated his reelection in a variety of ways, like getting tipsy, or partying in front of the White House. But that wasn't serious enough for some Obama fans.
Mitt Romney's campaign has admitted President Obama won Florida, and an adviser thinks they might have given it away.
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EVERYTHING MUST GO! (Go on, Mitt would've wanted you to help the economy.)
While Karl Rove was battling Fox News' own Decision Desk over the network's calling Ohio -- and thus the presidency -- for President Obama, Mitt Romney had given up.
Not even 24 hours since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama, the Republicans advisers have begun floating theories for why he failed to defeat a less popular incumbent in a weak economy.
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Fox News went to war with its own decision desk on Election Night.
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Obama wins Ohio, and with it, the presidency.
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All the top pundits in the talking head business say this presidential election was totally lame, riddled with "smallness," lacking "bigness," focused on petty complaints instead of big issues. What planet are they on?
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As is tradition before election day, our nation's wise pundits have made their predictions for who will win today, how and by what margin, theoretically giving us an idea of the most likely outcome for president of the United States.
Once you've voted there's not much else to do on Election Day other than sit around and wait for results to actually start pouring in. So what better way to get through this time than to click on some mindless election-related single-serving websites?
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.
The election is almost over, and thanks to a combination of near-constant fundraising and outside spending, the 2012 race will go down as the most expensive election in history (until we hold the next presidential race, you can assume).
Perhaps you just passed the two-hour mark standing in line to vote as frozen tears inched down your face and your toes started dying one by one, which happened to me earlier this morning. Well, cheer up, because someone somewhere in America probably has it worse than you.
Whether you've been waiting for four years, since the last election, to cast your ballots in another, or for just days or weeks or months, you can't have failed to become in some way swept up as a news reader in the undulating rhythms of politics in some way or another. Waiting! Waiting is the worst.
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In one of his last campaign pushes before the election, President Obama got a rousing introduction from Jay Z at a rally in Columbus Ohio Monday, which seems to have upset white conservative men who are feigning being offended at Jay Z's misogynistic and racist lyrics.
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Let's face it: The 2012 election is so passé. Voting may be less than 24 hours away but the media has moved on to bigger and better things: Like what's going to happen after the presidential election?
The final Gallup poll released today shows Romney maintaining a one point lead over Obama.
President Obama's reelection Tuesday looks increasingly likely, but it's not certain. There's still a chance Mitt Romney could surprise pollsters and even some Republicans who've grown grim over the weekend. How could he do it?
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