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.
There are the public rules for each presidential debate -- how long the candidates get for each answer, how long they get to respond -- and then there are the secret rules their campaigns agreed to in a memorandum of understanding with the Commission on Presidential Debates.
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party raised a ton of money in September -- $170 million, The New York Times' Ashley Parker and Nicholas Confessore report.
All of the probing insight into Mitt Romney's daddy issues over the last two years has been based on a lie.
The presidential campaign has reached a moment of rare bipartisan agreement: the candidates do not want Candy Crowley to do much of anything at the second presidential debate Tuesday.
With less than 48-hours to go before the big night, arguments over the rules and procedures for the presidential next debate are already underway.
Whether you like it or not, the Obama and Romney campaigns have been using cookies and data miners to track what you're up to on the web.
Christopher Stevens' father would really like it if everyone stopped trying to turn his son's death into a political issue.
Mitt Romney didn't stay in Massachusetts very much while he was governor, according to a new investigation by the New York Times.
In her post on Peter Berg asking Mitt Romney to stop using the iconic slogan from his show Friday Night Lights, Esther Zuckerman noted that musicians have also told him to stay away from their songs. What do politicians have left?, one commenter wonders.
Summer is now a distant memory, and the presidential campaigns have moved from sweating through parades to engaging in wholesome fall festivities to convince the plebes they are Just Like Us.
Today in Poll Watch: It's unclear who won the vice-presidential debate, and Mitt Romney is leading President Obama in Florida and New Hampshire.
Mitt Romney tapped the television show Friday Night Lights' slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" on his way to the presidential debate last week, then used it in a fundraising letter, but the show's creator does not approve.
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.
"I think unemployment is very important for now, so as of now I think (my vote) is Mitt Romney," said unemployment expert Lindsay Lohan to a group of reporters on Thursday night. "So, as of now, Mitt Romney. As of now."
Today in Poll Watch: Voters in three swing states see more strong leadership qualities in Romney than Obama; in another poll of swing states we find the debate didn't change that many people's minds; a small number of debate watchers do so on two screens; and the national tracking polls once again conflict.
In an interview on CNN, Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said "the entire reason" the attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi has become a political lightning rod is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
There hasn't been a sweeping obvious change in the presidential race after Mitt Romney's victory in the first presidential debate against President Obama -- all liberal panicking aside. But several new polls released Thursday show the race is now quite close nationally and in many swing states (except Ohio), which is exactly where the race was back before the conventions.
After Romney said he'd get rid of Big Bird, the Obama campaign simply has not let go of it, and Jon Stewart had some advice last night on The Daily Show: it's time to let it go, guys.
Mitt Romney has managed to achieve something other politicians only got after having cajoled pranksters into doing it for them: He has his very own Google bomb... that he created himself.
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.
To capitalize on last week's debate performance success, what Romney needs is clear-eyed, smooth-talking, PowerPoint-clicking outside consultants much like the very ones he once worked with at Bain & Company so many years ago.
As news broke that Beyoncé would be dropping out of Clint Eastwood's remake of A Star is Born, the media wondered if the split had something to do with the two celebrities' very public political personas.
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Now that Mitt Romney has an "insurmountable, unblowable lead" in the election, Jon Stewart decided to actually look at what he's been saying about policy last night on The Daily Show.
Mitt Romney let his guard down a little bit on Tuesday, when he told the Des Moines Register that he wouldn't pursue any abortion legislation if elected to the nation's highest office.
Even Big Bird has to make some money. The Sesame Workshop's 990 form for the 2010 tax year reveals that Caroll Spinney, the man behind the newsworthy avian creature and other Muppets, including Oscar the Grouch, made $314,072.
Today in Poll Watch: Gallup's numbers today lead to varied viewpoints, favorability for both candidates are at highs, and Ohio is tight.
President Obama embraces the Big Bird meme, Rand Paul attacks Democrats on foreign aid, and Crossroads GPS puts money in five Senate races.
How to push back against the Obama campaign's claim that the moderate Mitt Romney of the first presidential debate was a new, inauthentic Mitt Romney? Suggest that Moderate Mitt is really the old, authentic Mitt -- and that he was only revealed after his eldest son and wife fought back against the political consultants who constrained him.
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Mitt Romney is really not winning any fans among the people behind children's programming.
Today in Poll Watch: Pew shows Mitt Romney leading by four points, the tracking polls paint a confusing picture, swing state polls show President Obama leading by a small margin, and fewer Obama supporters than Romney supporters are "extremely likely" to vote.
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger endorsed Mitt Romney for president today. Channeling Tami Taylor, one of our commenters says that even with clear eyes, full hearts, and Bissinger's vote, Romney's still got a heck of a game ahead.
Mitt Romney's debate performance pushed him into a national lead over President Obama among likely voters, Pew Research Center reports in its latest poll numbers.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama looks back to when people were making fun of Mitt Romney, Romney finds a disappointed Obama voter, Democrats call Linda McMahon too rich to care about old people, Richard Mourdock tries to tie his opponent to Obama, and the NRA says somebody's gonna take your guns away.
In his speech today at the Virginia Military Institute, Mitt Romney skewered President Obama for his his foreign policy leadership but failed to outline significantly different policy positions.
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger has announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney just as Romney's campaign has embraced the slogan of Friday Night Lights character Coach Taylor, "Clear Eyes. Full Hearts."
President Obama admitted, in joke format, that he choked at the presidential debate, telling a Los Angeles fundraiser Sunday night that celebrities like George Clooney, Jennifer Hudson, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jon Bon Jovi, and Katy Perry, "are just incredible professionals" and "just perform flawlessly night after night." As for himself, he added, "I can't always say the same."
The Ohio Democratic Party took out a full page ad in The Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper, that was simply a picture of the Republicans face with a quote laid over top saying, "I have been a Michigan and Wolverine fan for a long, long time."
The upshot of the Great Romney Cheat Sheet Conspiracy appears to be that Romney didn't beat Obama by cheating with a little sheet of paper he slipped onto the podium, but that Romney beat Obama despite being under the weather.
Today's in Poll Watch: Two different pollsters show Virginia, Ohio, and Florida leaning more towards Romney than they had been, but the tracking polls still have Obama up nationally.
Lots of Republicans want Mitt Romney to be Ronald Reagan, the last Republican challenger to defeat a Democratic president in a weak economy.
Last night Snoop Dogg, through Instagram, posted some profanity-laced reasons why he isn't voting for Mitt Romney. The only problem is, that while it's a brilliantly lowbrow list, he didn't write it.
Mitt Romney subtly took something out of his pocket and put it on his podium at the presidential debate Wednesday night, and it's a big deal, because no notes were allowed.
Mitt Romney crushed President Obama in the first presidential debate Wednesday night, which changed everything, until a good jobs report changed everything again Friday morning.
It took him long enough, but Romney finally admitted his 47 percent speech was 'completely wrong' during an interview with Fox News tonight.
Debate viewers think Mitt Romney beat President Obama, and the Connecticut senate race is basically tied. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Ann Romney will be filling in for Good Morning America cohost Robin Roberts next week, it was announced today. Doling out mom-friendly morning show fluff seems like a job Romney is ideally suited for, having yelled in her Republican National Convention speech, "I love women!"
Conservatives are so thrilled with Mitt Romney's victory in the first presidential debate Wednesday night that they're not noticing how moderate he sounded.
Following a disappointing debate marked by a lack of comebacks on the president's part, political journalists are saying a speech in Denver today felt like the president's George Costanza moment.
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