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: it involves a LOT of milk).
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Posted Sunday, November 11th 2012 at 12:04PM
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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 Tuesday night after news came that he’d won re-el ...
Posted Saturday, November 10th 2012 at 11:03AM
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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 victory and her network's coverage of the election. ...
Posted Friday, November 9th 2012 at 11:41AM
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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.
Apparently anxious to ensure the newly-reelected lea ...
Posted Thursday, November 8th 2012 at 7:28PM
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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 jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney’s loss ...
Posted Thursday, November 8th 2012 at 3:22PM
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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 pointed finger in the president’s face is one of t ...
Posted Tuesday, November 6th 2012 at 10:10AM
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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-election to 91.4 percent.
Here’s what the result ...
Posted Tuesday, November 6th 2012 at 10:08AM
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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 religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan go ...
Posted Monday, November 5th 2012 at 11:55AM
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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) defends his statement made comment during the Re ...
Posted Sunday, November 4th 2012 at 4:32PM
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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 if Mitt could do anything to turn the tide.
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Posted Sunday, November 4th 2012 at 11:11AM
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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 it increased to 83.7 percent on Friday, his highe ...
Posted Sunday, November 4th 2012 at 11:09AM
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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 favorite (and certainly not a lock) to be re-elected ...
Posted Saturday, November 3rd 2012 at 12:49PM
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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 electorate.
How else to explain his refusal to dis ...
Posted Saturday, November 3rd 2012 at 12:46PM
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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 just want to get that black man out of the White ...
Posted Saturday, November 3rd 2012 at 12:46PM
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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 should be shuttered so that states can individually tak ...
Posted Monday, October 29th 2012 at 1:31PM
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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 Sunday, he said something unusual to his flock of ...
Posted Monday, October 29th 2012 at 1:29PM
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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 old from Brooklyn is just a few wins away from b ...
Posted Saturday, October 27th 2012 at 4:33PM
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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. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response ...
Posted Saturday, October 27th 2012 at 2:46PM
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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 political candidates — and that included urging ...
Posted Saturday, October 27th 2012 at 11:37AM
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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 the First Lady said to him: "And eat your carrots ...
Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 9:16PM
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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 divorce, and then testified that she got a fair price, ...
Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 2:14PM
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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 its co-founder who was involved in a divorce.
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Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 2:11PM
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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 Maureen Sullivan Stemberg received were valued ...
Posted Friday, October 26th 2012 at 2:06PM
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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’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtuall ...
Posted Thursday, October 25th 2012 at 12:08PM
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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 of times.
Mitt Romney is sticking to it.
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Posted Sunday, October 21st 2012 at 10:12PM
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