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In the first post-election episode of the season, "Saturday Night Live" bid farewell to Mitt Romney in a cold open sketch that imagined what he must have done after conceding to President Obama (hint:

SLATE, November 8, 2012 -- Photojournalist Scout Tufankjian has been chronicling the political career of Barack Obama on and off since 2007. Her image of the president hugging his wife went viral on T

Stephen Colbert has a new nickname for Rachel Maddow's show: "conservative dream killing machine." The MSNBC host appeared on Thursday's "Colbert Report," where she reflected on President Obama's v

In the midst of Tuesday's election night celebration in Chicago, Sasha Obama gave her dad a friendly reminder that endeared her to supporters in the McCormick Place convention center and beyond. Ap

NEW YORK TIMES, November 8, 2012 -- At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream je

BY JOAN WALSH, SALON, November 6, 2012 -- We have a lot of iconic images of the Obama era. Far too many are ugly. The photo of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Tea Party darling, disrespectfully waving her po

Nate Silver has gone all-in with President Obama. In a Monday evening update to his fivethirtyeight blog on the New York Times, the polling guru increased the likelihood of the president’s re-elect

SALT LAKE CITY TRIBUNE, November 5, 2012 -- Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and

Fun fact: Mitt Romney is technically still a presidential candidate, even if the election has taken the backburner to Hurricane Sandy in the last week's media coverage. On SNL, Mitt (Jason Sudeikis

According to polling data, Black voters favor Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in this election by an overwhelming percentage. Jimmy Kimmel decided to talk to some of the black voters in the area and see

BY NATE SILVER, NEW YORK TIMES, November 3, 2012 -- President Obama is now better than a 4-in-5 favorite to win the Electoral College, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast. His chances of winning

By NATE SILVER, NEW YORK TIMES, November 2, 2012 -- If you are following some of the same people that I do on Twitter, you may have noticed some pushback about our contention that Barack Obama is a fa

EDITORIAL BOARD, WASHINGTON POST, November 2, 2012 – Through all the flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the elect

DAILY BEAST, November 2, 2012 -- Mitt Romney is a pimp. He’s pimping his base, lying every opportunity he gets with the hope that the uninformed—as well as those who are supporting him because they ju

HUFFINGTON POST, October 29, 2012 -- During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency shoul

NEW YORK TIMES, October 29, 2012 — The Rev. Eugene W. Diamond of the Abyssinia Missionary Baptist Church here rarely pays attention to the clock when the spirit moves him to preach, but midsermon on S

CNN, OCTOBER 26, 2012 – Rochelle Ballantyne plays chess the same way she walks through the streets of New York, determined to reach her goal without letting any obstacles slow her down. The 17 year

HUFFINGTON POST, October 26, 2012 -- Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists." Retired Army Col

NEW YORK TIMES, October 27, 2012 -- Imagine getting a letter from the boss, telling you how to vote. Until 2010, federal law barred companies from using corporate money to endorse and campaign for

Thinking of not voting on election day? Think again, otherwise the First Lady might just show up at your house like she did here with Jimmy Kimmel. And as he was getting ready to go, the last thing

SALON, October 25, 2012 -- Documents unsealed by a court in Massachusetts today show that Mitt Romney created a special share of stock to help a friend give his ex-wife less money during a nasty divor

BLOOMBERG, October 26, 2012 -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, as a board member of Staples Inc., voted to set a low price on the stock and create a new class of shares as a “favor” to

BOSTON GLOBE, October 25, 2012 — Mitt Romney testified under oath in 1991 that the ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg got a fair deal in the couple’s 1988 divorce, even though the company shares

NEW YORK TIMES, November 18, 2008 -- If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won

POLITIFACT, October 16, 2012 -- The notion that President Barack Obama started his presidency with an "apology tour" is a persistent and false Republican talking point that we have debunked a number o