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American Mustache Institute: Axelrod's Mustache Wager 'Incredibly Irresponsible'
Tweet Share on Facebook October 31, 2012 CommentWith Movember just around the bend, senior adviser to the Obama campaign David Axelrod made a hairy wager on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday: he will shave off his four-decade-old mustache on national television if Obama loses Minnesota, Michigan or Pennsylvania on Election Day.
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Romney Quoted by the Media 50 Percent More Than Obama This Election
Tweet Share on Facebook October 30, 2012 CommentMitt Romney has been quoted by the media about 50 percent more often than Barack Obama this election, a new analysis shows.
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Donald Trump Says Obama 'Will Buy the Election' By Handing Out Millions Of Dollars In Aid For Sandy
Tweet Share on Facebook October 30, 2012 CommentReal estate tycoon and consummate opportunist Donald Trump has seized upon superstorm Sandy to rehash his criticisms of President Barack Obama, as well as brag about his superior building skills.
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Conspiracy Theorists Say Obama Engineered Hurricane Sandy
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2012 CommentAs Hurricane Sandy blasts the eastern seaboard just over a week before Election Day, a number of conspiracy theorists have decided President Barack Obama engineered the mega-storm to secure his re-election.
InfoWars.com, TheIntelHub.com, and ConsfearacyNewz all posted stories over the last several days alleging that the The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, helped the president engineer Sandy.
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Gay Romney Supporter and Friend Were Likely Not Kicked Out Of Rally Because They Are Gay
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2012 CommentThis post was updated 10/31/12 at 2:00 p.m. with comment from Adam Peters.
On Wednesday, a gay Romney supporter and friend wrote a post on Facebook saying they were kicked out of a Romney rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for no apparent reason, though they suspected it was because they were gay.
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Mike Huckabee Says Women Worse At Multitasking During Their Menstrual Cycles
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2012 CommentSeveral days after CNN published, then deleted, a story about how women are more likely to vote liberal when they are ovulating, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee says women are worse at multitasking than men because of their menstrual cycles.
Huckabee made the comment on his Facebook page Monday morning, noting that he wanted to share some lighter news as many Americans braced for Hurricane Sandy.
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Hurricane Sandy is a Democrat
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2012 CommentAs Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc on the Obama and Romney campaigns, the frankenstorm has made her political inclinations clear in at least one place: Twitter.
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Obama Campaign Posts Photo to Tumblr of Romney in a Dunce Hat
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2012 CommentConservatives aren't happy about the latest move by the Obama campaign to undermine his opponent Mitt Romney: an illustration posted on the campaign's Tumblr blog of Mitt Romney in a dunce hat. "Sums it up," reads the caption below the illustration.
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How Obama and Romney Will Frame Their Messages In The Two-Week Sprint To The Finish Line
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2012 CommentIn this week’s third and final presidential debate, the incumbent was full of zingers and the GOP nominee, who had cast himself as a conservative Republican with Tea Party appeal, was speaking the language of a moderate.
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Father of Slain Navy SEAL in Libya Says Obama 'Had No Remorse,' Biden Made Disrespectful Joke
Tweet Share on Facebook October 26, 2012 CommentThe father of one of the Navy SEALs killed in the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya says that President Barack Obama did not seem sorry when he met him at the ceremony in which the bodies of the four slain Americans were returned to the United States. Vice President Joe Biden, he says, also made a disrespectful joke about his son.
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