One of the latest offerings of the Obama Campaign’s swag store quotes, um, liberally from the cover line of my recent TIME story on the Latino vote. The shirt costs $30, and is part of a larger collection of newly released Latino- and Hispanic-themed merchandise. (You can get the original cover print from TIME for $19.95, which makes …
Mitt Romney spent Sunday afternoon being spied on by his own press corps, and it was just about the best thing that could have happened to him. At a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Romney stood in a backyard with his wealthy …
When Joe Biden went to New Hampshire on Thursday to attack Mitt Romney’s tax proposals, the Romney campaign greeted Biden by attacking President Barack Obama’s charitable giving rate. On a campaign conference call with …
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized Wednesday night for inaccurate comments he made a week earlier about the origins of the Mormon church. “I am truly sorry if I said something inaccurate about Joseph Smith, and I am …
Don’t believe what the national media tells you, says Dr. Richard Land, a leader with the Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney doesn’t need to worry about his Mormon faith being a problem for evangelical voters at the voting booth.
The Latino vote will matter in the 2012 election. So say Republicans and Democrats, and even the cover of TIME magazine. But just how much it will matter is not clear at this point. Too many factors remain fluid. We don’t know …
The Obama campaign fundraising machine has debuted a new text message tool with encouraging results for the President’s bean counters. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign sent out an SMS message to cell phones and smart phones of tens of thousands of previous donors asking them to give more money. “Support Pres Obama in less than a minute,” …
Have you Googled “Santorum”? You will see descriptions of the byproducts of anal sex. This was funny to its creators because former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is not a big fan of sodomy. It’s a kind of political protest. It’s also a form of bullying.
Who knew it is against U.S. House rules to wear a hood? Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois seemed to know what he was doing this morning when he donned one in an act of solidarity with killed Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
One of the first things people who know Mitt Romney tell reporters is how delightfully personable and funny he is. This is spin, of course, but it also appears to be an actual surprising secret his intimates want out. Romney is one of those guys who generally has a tough time being personable with strangers, and on the campaign he has …
In the 2012 campaign for president, the news cycle has been replaced by the gaffe cycle.
Back in the day, and even four years ago, certain signature events all but guaranteed a full 24-hours of political press coverage. Win a …
“If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” President Obama said Friday, March 23, regarding the recent killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was shot last month in Florida by a neighborhood-watch volunteer …
“No matter what happens to America,” the satirical pundit Stephen Colbert once observed, “She will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world.” And so Barack Obama stood before a bunch of big pipes …
