Here's Obama's new campaign ad, to be aired in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Iowa, and Florida. It's not as hilarious as some of the attack ads we've seen recently, but it is a major effort, costing $25 million dollars for a month of airtime.

What do you do when your party's base is made up of scared old white people who believe that the president is a traitor? You never, ever, ever correct them, and you talk a lot about God. Take Mitt Romney's example!

It's about as easy to lose track of Mitt Romney's political gaffes as it is to lose track of the number of drinks you've had during a beer pong tournament. Their pace is relentless, both are sort of shamefully satisfying, and ultimately they make your head hurt.

Here's the buzzed-about anti-Obama political ad in which Barack Obama's oppressive coolness is exposed. There's a lot about this strategy I don't understand. Is being cool a problem when you're a president? Does this ad make Obama's fans like him any less? Could Mitt Romney ever pull off Al Green?

Now that the GOP primary season is finally over, Mitt Romney has rebooted his campaign like so many superhero movies. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart dipped his toe into the new general election and he found it wanting. Wanting for material that is.

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a look at how none of the top GOP party members want to be Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee. Instead, they keep suggesting each other and excusing themselves like the nomination is a game of hot potato.

Unemployment is down in swing states, which means support for Barack Obama is up. Recent polls show the president has an advantage over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. And it's still the economy, stupid.

The pundits over at Fox News spent most of the GOP primary season talking about how Mitt Romney wasn't conservative enough to win the nomination and now that he has all but won it, they've had to drastically change their tune. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart called out three pundits in particular and also unveiled a killer Dick Morris impression.

On tonight's Colberrt Report, Stephen Colbert took a moment to examine Mitt Romney's potential running mates and found one big problem, they are all way more interesting than Romney. And that lead Colbert to the perfect choice: Romney's shadow.

Now that the GOP primary is all but over and Mitt Romney a virtual lock for the nomination, the media has switched into general election mode. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart examined one of the most important questions being asked so far: is Romney funnier than Obama?

Ted Nugent is standing by the anti-Obama rhetoric that earned him an upcoming visit from Secret Service agents.

The endorsement of ex-relevant-person Ted Nugent has unsurprisingly resulted in some distracting backlash for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who was forced to respond today through spokeswoman Andrea Saul to a quasi-threat the rocker made over the weekend on President Obama's life.

Two Sundays ago, the New York Times ran an article about Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two have known each other for about 35 years. They went through Boston Consulting Group's "boot camp" together. They "can almost speak in shorthand." They finish each other's sentences and once accidentally ate from opposite ends of the same long strand of spaghetti. Their lives are an endless geopolitical meet-cute: Romney wants to run the nuclear big-box store of the United States, but he has enough love in his heart that he'd never crush the beautiful Middle Eastern shop around the corner.

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert told tales from the weekend he spent with the NRA at their annual meeting. While Mitt Romney was a wee bit out of place, Newt Gingrich was right at home, especially when he theorized that the right to bear arms had been handed down by God and that it is his hope that everyone on the planet can be armed. One day, Newt, one day.

By now everyone is familiar with the comments Hilary Rosen made last week wherein she said that Ann Romney had never had a job in her life. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took stock of Fox News' strong response.

It's not just the dog: assuming he's the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney will go into the election with more people viewing him unfavorably than favorably.

Ann Romney is ready to set the record straight about the whole "dog strapped to the roof of the car" business. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Ann recalled that Seamus the Irish Setter "loved" riding in a carrier on top of the family's Chevrolet. In fact, it would have been far crueler to leave him at a kennel.

Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pro-choice. Wait, no — that's not exactly true. She still supports a full ban on abortion, even in the case of rape or for the woman's health. But Bachmann used an odd choice of words when she appeared on Meet the Press.

Mitt Romney has reportedly been offered a Saturday Night Live hosting gig by executive producer Lorne Michaels himself. The last time a candidate hosted the show was in 1996 when GOP candidate Steve Forbes hosted. (He never made it to the general election.)

Ann Romney joined Twitter last night, apparently to retaliate against CNN talking head Hilary Rosen, who criticized Ann by saying she "never worked a day in her life." @AnnDRomney has tweeted twice so far: