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.
It's an activity best associated with dingy strip malls and reality TV stars, but it also happens to be the secret to Mitt Romney's sun-kissed glow, according to BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins and Ruby Cramer.
Wednesday is Double October Surprise Day, with two famous publicity seekers promising juicy revelations related -- Gloria Allred and Donald Trump. We now have a hint of what Allred might reveal.
Americans will get a second helping of Clint Eastwood's endorsement of Mitt Romney, but this time it's more serious, and does not involve talking to chairs.
Jon Stewart looked at Monday's foreign policy presidential debate last night on The Daily Show and reached a conclusion: Mitt Romney is leaning toward voting for Barack Obama.
Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, an Indiana Republican, turned a few heads and dropped a few jaws on Tuesday night when he said that pregnancies resulting from rape were "something that God intended to happen."
All of the evidence points to one thing, but most of the media is saying a different thing.
Today in Poll Watch: President Obama won the debate, tracking polls are up and down, and Sen. Ben Nelson's lead is shrinking in Florida.
We live in the most partisan America some of us have ever seen. The choice in this election is huge. And most of us won't even consider voting for the other guy. So you should know your preferred candidate pretty well, right? Take this quiz and see.
Last night's third and final presidential debate appeared light on foreign policy (especially if it didn't involve the Middle East or China), but the meeting did spawn one of the more memorable memes of the campaign.
Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer hosted the final presidential debate sit-down with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, focused ostensibly on the matter of foreign policy, Monday evening. Here is your semantical commentary. (For GIFs and things, go here).
The main message of the Obama campaign for the past year is essentially the one that's at the end of some ads airing in Ohio: "Mitt Romney: He's not one of us." Now, with the debates over and two weeks left in the race, the message is suddenly sunnier.
The final debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was bound to spawn a meme or two in in the hours after the debate.
Both Obama and Romney started out with smiles and jokes. Then they got a little meaner.
Tonight is very our last chance to see President Obama and Mitt Romney yell at each other, as well as debate issues, at the third presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida.
Today in Poll Watch: Numbers raise questions about just how many opinions the debates affected, Obama's up in his crucial state of Ohio, and national polls give Romney the upper hand.
Nuanced policy arguments be dammed! Tonight's foreign policy debate is a battle of who can sound toughest without advocating all-out war.
Mitt Romney leads President Obama by 6 percentage points among likely voters nationwide, according to Gallup's seven-day tracking poll. The result, 51 percent to 45 percent, is a small 1 point drop for Romney from Sunday.
It's the time of year when newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates start coming in. We're keeping track of who's backing President Obama and Mitt Romney here.
A blimp-like aircraft that carried advertising showing a beaming Mitt Romney was forced to make an emergency landing in a heavily Democratic part of Florida on Sunday, The Miami Herald reported.
Women are the key to President Obama's lead in Ohio, and Ohio is his key to stopping Mitt Romney's momentum nationally and winning the electoral college vote.
According to the latest poll numbers, the gender gap is on track to hit historic highs in the upcoming presidential election.
If you are one of those pesky undecided voters and you were waiting to decide between Obama and Romney based off the word of Mayor Bloomberg himself, stop. You're turning blue in the face. Get a soda and make up your own mind. Bloomberg's probably not going to endorse anyone.
Your best tuxedo or gown is already getting pressed and steamed. The days on your calendar are quietly being crossed off. You're ready to look your best and mingle with the nation's most powerful (or defeated) on election night. The only question is, which party are you attending?
Mitt Romney's business experience has been his calling card throughout the election. 'A hard nosed businessman, that Romney fellow' has been the campaign message. But a New York Times investigation says he's more of a softy around the office than he'd like to let on.
National polls other than Gallup indicate the race is tight, Obama is up in Wisconsin and maybe Iowa, and Rasmussen has Romney up by five in Florida.
Whether President Obama or Mitt Romney was funnier at the Al Smith dinner Thursday night is in the ear of the joke beholder. What's more interesting is which of their own jokes the candidates laughed at.
If Mitt Romney wins, the $1 billion conservative super PACs raised this election will be seen as money well spent. If he loses, there will be a fight among the biggest groups over which one made the most effective ads and who gets to be the "shadow boss" of the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney picked up a key newspaper endorsement in the swing state of Florida, from a paper that supported the President just four years ago.
In what has become one of the most bizarre traditions of the presidential race, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney roasted each other at the Al Smith Dinner last night.
The 'Restore Our Future' super PAC is making sure Romney's face will be all over your television screen (if you live in a battleground state) after Monday's final debate.
Today in Poll Watch: In Maryland, marriage equality is leading, the Democrat is up in Ohio's Senate race, and Romney takes a seven-point Gallup lead.
Gallup's seven-day tracking poll of likely voters shows Mitt Romney leading President Obama by 7 percentage points, 52 percent to 45 percent. Should Obama panic?
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki would have us believe the campaign is terrified Mitt Romney will destroy President Obama with far funnier jokes during their appearances on Thursday night at the Al Smith dinner, where it is a tradition for people who are not comedians to tell jokes.
Many, many people were puzzled by the mental image brought to mind by Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" phrasing at th Tuesday's debate. An entire Tumblr has been trying to fill in the details, but now we have the real deal, guys, a photo from the Associated Press taken in 2002 of the original binder.
Behind their handsome faces, the Romney boys are a little intense. Tagg Romney said the debate made you want to "jump out of your seat and you want to rush down the debate stage and take a swing at him" -- him being the President of the United States.
Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you're a small business owner, he wants your employees' votes as well and insists that there's nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle.
It's wonderful being an American woman right now, because the last three weeks of the presidential campaign are going to be all about women. Well, it's only sort of wonderful, because while the campaigns will be paying women a lot of attention, they won't be treating women like they're smart.
It was almost happy hour, but Veronica De Souza was having a pretty awful Tuesday. She has just been laid off from her job as a social media manager and what else did she have to do but pour a drink and watch the debates...
Today in Poll Watch: Insta-polls give President Obama the second debate, and the Connecticut Senate race is still in a dead heat.
Tuesday evening we went down the old presidential debate road yet again, meeting our candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama for a second time with all the convivial discourse-ready trappings of America.
There were a couple exciting moments in the presidential debate last night when President Obama and Mitt Romney revealed they do not like each other very much. One of those was on the not-typically-emotionally-charged issue of energy permits. Relive it in our GIF anatomy of the fight.
The were several big fights in the presidential debate that were target rich for both fact-checkers and GIF makers. In a few cases, what started as a calm, maybe even boring conversation suddenly broke down into pointed fingers and raised voices.
Everyone is having a good at laugh over Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" line from last night's debate, but given our current obsession with fact checking it's no surprise that there are also questions about whether the binder story is even true.
If everyone remembers the last debate for Romney's leveraging Big Bird to make a point about budget cuts, they'll remember this one for another fairly confusing Romney phrase: "binders full of women."
Police arrested Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her vice presidential running mate Cheri Honkala at Hofstra University on Tuesday night just a few minutes before the start of the second Obama-Romney debate.
We live GIF-blogged the second presidential debate, and President Obama and Mitt Romney rewarded us for our efforts with a very confrontational show. If you missed the debate -- or if you want to relive all the best finger points and fact checks and zings -- here's our recap.
A new poll from USA Today/Gallup finds the candidates equally favorable heading into tonight's debate, Romney's up by as much as four in two polls, but Obama's up by three in another, Pennsylvania is looking closer, and rural swing state voters are going big for Romney.
However overhyped you think Tuesday's presidential debate is, the real cold hard truth is that it cannot be hyped enough. The stakes are impossibly high—not just for who gets to be the most powerful person on Earth, but also for the people who get paid to talk about the most powerful person on Earth, which is a powerful though considerably lesser position.
The Democratic National Committee released a single-serving joke site—RomneyTaxPlan.com—that displays an enticing button promising to allow you to "GET THE DETAILS" on the plan but that scurries away from your pointer when you try to click on it.
National and tracking polls show varying results, a USA Today/Gallup poll has Romney up in swing states thanks to women but the Obama campaign sees a problem, and Romney is doing better with Latinos in Florida than he does with Latinos nationwide, and fewer voters think Obama will win Tuesday's debate.
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