Republicans Want Conservative Fundraisers to Stop Scaring Their Moms
A new battle is raging in the conservative civil war over something that has long felt fundamental to organizing the GOP: the crazy right-wing email forward.
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The former head of the RNC's Hispanic outreach committee in Florida is so fed up with the national party's stance on immigration that he's switching teams and registering as a Democrat.
A new battle is raging in the conservative civil war over something that has long felt fundamental to organizing the GOP: the crazy right-wing email forward.
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.
The push and pull between the Republican Party's members who are more and less enlightened on matters of race has been going on for a long time. And in just the last decade, the GOP has seen plenty of two-steps-forward-three-steps-back moments when it's tried to minority outreach programs.
If Latinos won't reward Republicans, why should Republicans do anything to help Latinos?
The Republican National Committee says in a new report that it can figure out how to win national elections by following the examples of the 30 Republican governors. But a closer look at what state those 30 governors govern, and when they got elected, complicates the picture.
The lessons the Republican National Committee learned from the 2012 elections is that both the party's message and its policy needs fixing.
The Republican Party has two comeback plans after the 2012 election, and they are total opposites: Plan A is to win presidential elections by appealing to broader audience that reflects America's "changing demographics." Plan B is to just change the rules of presidential elections so that rural white voters get a disproportional vote.
While the DNC's TV ratings might not correlate to more votes for Obama, high viewership of either convention may correlate to higher voter turnout, according to this chart by Jordan Ragusa on the blog Rule 22.
If a convention speaker can "win" Twitter, President Obama, whose speech last night spurred nearly 53,000 tweets per minute at one point, won by a long shot according to Twitter's blog.
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.
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."
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.
I suppose I'm weak for only being able to last a day of this convention trying to be neutral about the whole thundering affair. Try as I might to be non-partisan, to view these things as spectacle rather than affirmation of policy, last night it became impossible to do that. No, what I saw last night frankly chilled me to the bone.
After Fox News' suggestion that Ronald Reagan himself might make an appearance at the Republican National Convention, Digital Domain -- the company that made the Tupac hologram earlier this year -- says that's not happening.
The most disruptive part of Paul Ryan's speech last night, aside from those not-quite-truths, came when two hecklers from the female anti-war group Code Pink pulled off the most successful protester infiltration yet at this year's conventions — and maybe the last one.
The Republican Convention is intriguing, and not just pundits' explanations of Chris Christie's speech or watching the "We Built This" theme come apart at the seams. No, what's really intriguing is how the 15,000 journalists sent into the path of a hurricane to report on all of the same things only seem to care about Diet Coke.
In purely theatrical terms, you have to admit that the Republican National Convention's Night Of a Thousand Speeches was a pretty solid show.
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.
All the guys who were competing to be Mitt Romney's running mate have gotten a consolation prize, except one: Poor old Tim Pawlenty.
In an era of crunched budgets and with Republicans in particular broadcasting a message of economic gloom, party planning and the all-important schmoozing it facilitates have gotten trickier for the droves of Washington organizations that want a presence at the end-of-summer conventions in Tampa and Charlotte.
On Thursday, Politico and a several other reporters pointed out a two-month old video of a contestant on an episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire correctly answering a question about Solyndra.
Republicans are having none of President Obama's recent action against China's tariffs on American exports, resorting to what's becoming the party's go-to critique: This is just election year pandering.
The Republican National Committee apparently liked one former Democratic National Committee staffer's clever microsite knocking Republican then-candidate Tim Pawlenty so much, they decided to just, uh, repurpose it.
Reports from Fox News, The Washington Post, Politico, and others are saying that Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign next Tuesday.
President Obama is hosting a well-timed White House Forum on Women and the Economy Friday, in which 10 women in the administration talk about Obama's record on jobs for women, just as Democrats have been attacking Republicans for waging a "war on women."
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus denied that his party has a woman problem in a way that made a feminist argument, even if it was on accident: women shouldn't be considered a special interest group, but maybe old men should.
Concluding "The Obama Experiment Has Failed," the Republican National Committee's new ad capitalizes on President Obama's remark in interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos last month: "Well, I don't think they're better off than they were four years ago."
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