The 2012 Republican National Convention will go down in the history for Clint Eastwood's dialogue with an empty chair — and, according to a lawsuit filed by the American Action Network against one of its vendors, for all the female pop stars it tried and failed to get to play the party's quadrennial party for itself. Here's the full list (for the RNC and Lolla).
After the Republican National Convention, the pundit consensus was that Mitt Romney "did what he had to do." After the Democratic National Convention and three tracking polls showing a significant bounce for President Obama, the pundit consensus has shifted, to "Actually…" and "On second thought…"
Oh Mitt Romney. Sometimes it seems he just can't get his thoughts to come out of his mouth the right way.
Today in Ad Watch: In a very special edition, we present Mitt Romney's 15 ads shock-and-awe-ing eight states Friday.
Safely back in Pebble Beach after last week's disastrous foray into political improv, Clint Eastwood gave his first interview about the speech to the Carmel Pine Cone. His take is it was a success precisely because of his improvising.
Obama's favorability is down while Romney's is moving up, but the two are tied among likely voters in a national poll. Here's our guide to todays' polls and why they matter.
After the dueling convention speeches Ann Romney and Michelle Obama, we can never really know which woman loves her husband more, or who more deeply prizes motherhood and PTA meetings and changing diapers and all that woman stuff. But we can rank them by other woman stuff: whose dress was more fierce?
President Obama wasn't offended by the 12-minute performance art piece Clint Eastwood did at the Republican National Convention. He's still a big fan of the Man with No Name.
Jon Stewart doesn't normally work on Fridays, but the Republican Convention is a special circumstance, and thanks to Clint Eastwood's special conversation "with the President," he doesn't regret working the overtime.
One poll shows a convention "bounce" for Romney, while Michigan is close, or not really. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Why did Republicans let Clint Eastwood make dirty jokes to a chair right before Mitt Romney accepted the presidential nomination?
The repercussions of Clint Eastwood's utterly wackadoodle speech have already hit, as The New York Times' Michael Barabo and Jeremy W. Peters reports that at least a few Mitt Romney aides are making sure that everyone know they were not the one who approved that disaster.
Mitt Romney had to do several things in his Republican National Convention speech: make women like him, make working-class people like him, convince people who voted for President Obama in 2008 that it's okay to vote against him now, explain why Bain Capital is not scary, and give people some idea of how awesome his presidency would be. Did he do it?
If the Republican National Convention was GOP Christmas, then Clint Eastwood and his chair played the role of the rambling uncle that needed to be put to bed hours ago.
Before the RNC aired Mitt Romney's biography video, Jon Stewart had an "advanced copy" that he showed last night on The Daily Show: "Mitt Romney: A Human Who Built That."
Mitt Romney will tell Americans it's okay to give up on President Obama and try something completely different in his speech accepting the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention tonight.
Now that Clint Eastwood has been confirmed as tonight's surprise speaker at the Republican National Convention, here's what we think he might say, based entirely on his tough guy movie roles.
In a move that should lay to rest suspicions that Clint Eastwood is a secret bailout-loving liberal, multiple media organizations are confirming that Dirty Harry himself will indeed be the "mystery guest" at the final night of the Republican National Convention.
The measured reaction by Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who had peanuts thrown at her at the Republican National Convention, is so depressing because she's not even surprised about the incident, which happened on Tuesday night.
One of the most surprising things about Paul Ryan's speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday was not that he shaded the truth, but that he told one lie that was so easily disproven.
Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan was the main event at last night's Republican Convention in Tampa, and most observers seem to agree that it was a well-read speech ... that had a few problems with the truth.
Paul Ryan will accept the nomination at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, though in a way he'll be introducing himself as the real leader of the Republican Party.
It's getting harder and harder to come up with new, romantic venues for surprise public marriage proposals, and while popping the question during sound-check at the Republican National Convention certainly counts as novel, it's hardly romantic.
The irony of ABC News' report that Mitt Romney's campaign held a Tampa fundraiser on a Cayman Island-flagged yacht was absolutely delicious, but it couldn't be that simple.
David Chalian, Yahoo's Washington Bureau Chief, has been fired for a comment he made during ABC-Yahoo News' coverage of the Republican National Convention (or whatever there was of it) on Monday when he apparently made a Katrina-Romney-Isaac joke at the Romneys' expense, saying that "they [the Romneys] are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
Among all the power brokers attending the Republican National Convention, one institution is noticeably underrepresented: the C-suite. The country’s chief executives and other top officials are largely staying home this year.
If you didn't know much about Mitt and Ann Romney's biography, you might have gotten the impression from Ann's speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night that they were once two crazy kids in love just scraping by in a sad little slum.
The first night of the Republican National Convention featured two key speeches that aimed at raising the curtain for Mitt Romney. So, how did they do?
The Daily Show returned last night, live from Tampa, and Jon Stewart checked in with the correspondents—discovering that Tampa was the perfect place for the Republican National Convention.
Hurricane Isaac has relented to allow the first real night of the Republican National Convention to begin.
Ann Romney revealed she had a miscarriage in 1991, 10 years after her fifth son was born, in an interview with CBS News Tuesday.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Something is rotten with the National Hurricane Center's forecasting of Tropical Storm Isaac, Rush Limbaugh thinks.
With the GOP descending on Tampa, the black heart of death metal country, Reuters tried to construct a conflict between Republicans and headbangers. But death metalheads seems unbiased in their hatred of politics.
As Tropical Storm Isaac moved west over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday afternoon, the storm warning for Tampa expired, and it looked like Republicans had unnecessarily canceled the first day of their convention. But New Orleans is bracing for a direct hit.
The Huffington Post is no longer just an oasis for laid off print journalists, it's also one for rain-soaked Tampa conventioneers.
The Republican National Convention is a place for speeches, weather anxiety and... hotties? That's what one might think based on a magazine dropped in gift bags: Alas, the "young delegates" featured in Bay Pop's Fall Issue are just models.
Here are some things Tropical Storm Isaac is ruining for the Republican National Convention: Donald Trump's special surprise, the entire night devoted to the slogan "We Can Do Better," maybe Mitt Romney's Thursday speech, and TV networks' coverage of the event.
Sher Valenzuela basically embodies everything the Republican party wants from its "We Built This" narrative: She's a small business-owning Latina running for office in Delaware, according to The New Yorker's John Cassidy. The only problem is, her company has taken some $17 million in federal loans and contracts and Reddit is all over it.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Now that Day One is officially not happening and the Republican Convention schedule has been compressed and re-configured, you might need to adjust your own schedule to catch your favorite politicians.
A report in the New York Post suggests that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who will deliver Tuesday's keynote at the Republican National Convention, is not confident of the nominee's chances.
TMZ breathlessly reported that Republican National Convention organizers paid Journey $500,000 to play at "a private fundraising party," on Thursday, but that doesn't appear to be true.
As Tropical Storm Isaac inches closer and closer to the Florida coast, Republican National Convention organizers are debating cancelling all of Monday's events and spreading them across the other four days.
Mitt Romney is but a man. He is no better than you or I, despite his much larger checking account. He falls victim to human perils from time to time, like leaving his homework to the last minute. Yes, Mitt Romney is a procrastinator.
The Republican National Committee had a bad start to their Friday night when, just around supper time, Politico's James Hohmann and Tony Romm discovered a draft of the party platform on the RNC's website.
Congress gave Tampa and Charlotte police $50 million each to keep America's egg-throwing anarchists at bay during the Republican and Democratic conventions. Turns out, both cities got quite a lot of bang for their buck.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Thursday that the latest predictions show Tropical Storm Isaac moving on a western path, missing Tampa (and the Republican National Convention), but Haiti, where 400,000 people still live in tents, likely won't be so lucky.
The FBI is worried about anarchist protesters disrupting Tampa during the Republican National Convention, which may be a valid concern if St. Paul in 2008 is any guide, but the warnings sound borderline ridiculous.
Tropical Storm Isaac is predicted to turn into a hurricane tonight, and it looks like it'll be hitting Tampa on Monday night—possibly around the time when Ann Romney is set to take the stage at the Republican National Convention.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has gone on the record and said that there'd be no hesitation in calling off next week's Republican National Convention if Tropical Storm Isaac (soon to be Hurricane Isaac) poses a threat.
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