election-2012

Obama Loses Coveted Creed Frontman Endorsement

Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/02/12 10:00AM

Remember Creed? The band that plays second fiddle to Nickelback in music acts people love to hate? Well, the group's lead singer Scott Stapp made a highly anticipated appearance on Fox & Friends this morning to reveal his choice for America's next president, and — surprise — it's not Obama.

Over 47 Percent of Voters Think Media Over-Covered Mitt Romney's '47 Percent' Remarks

Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/01/12 05:50PM

Following the release of secretly recorded footage from a $50,000-a-plate Mitt Romney fundraiser, in which the GOP's presidential nominee can be heard blasting 47 percent of all voters for believing "they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it," subsequent media coverage may have given a casual observer the impression that Romney had all but forfeited the race.

Hunting and the Idiocy of Identity Politics

Hamilton Nolan · 09/28/12 09:00AM

The Romney-Ryan ticket, which will lose the US presidential election this November, is still giving it their all. The campaign is trailing in key states like Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio. But they have a secret weapon: VP nominee Paul Ryan is an avid hunter.

Todd Akin Says He Knows He's Winning Because His Female Opponent Is Getting Less 'Ladylike'

Cord Jefferson · 09/27/12 03:34PM

You might remember Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin from the time he said last month that women who suffer "legitimate" rapes undergo biological processes that prevent them from getting pregnant. It was one of the wrongest things a politician has said publicly in modern America, and Akin was criticized from people on both the left and the right. All that is apparently behind us now (what with Akin's former GOP critics supporting him again), and thus Akin is back to saying archaic nonsense about women.

Paul Ryan's Got a Cute Nickname for His Floundering Running Mate: 'The Stench' (UPDATE)

Cord Jefferson · 09/26/12 10:55AM

How can you tell when a presidential campaign is not going so well? A lot of ways, actually, but one way is to listen to the candidate for vice president's pet names for his presidential running mate. If one of those sobriquets is a word normally reserved to describe death, filth, and feces, chances are that you are looking at a rather unsuccessful presidential campaign.

ICYMI: Here Are the 60 Minutes Interviews With the Presidential Candidates In 60 Seconds

Kate Bennert · 09/24/12 07:00PM

The infamous and inevitable 60 Minutes interviews with the Chosen Two aired on CBS last night. Neither candidate said anything that they had never said before and everyone walked away forgetting why they had opted to watch the predictably uninformative interviews in the first place. (Is 60 Minutes even still a thing?)