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Chris Matthews: ‘Idiots’ vote for ‘numbskull’ third party candidates
Chris Matthews let everyone watching MSNBC’s NOW with Alex Wagner know that people who vote for third parties or refrain from voting are “idiots.” “If you don’t vote you’re an idiot,” he began. “The haters all voted, they always vote. The haters will show up,” Matthews explained. “It’s the lovers…
Gov. Christie: Hug from Bruce Springsteen left me ‘weeping’
Speaking outside a shelter in Keansburg on Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) told a crowd that he’d confessed to President Barack Obama that getting a hug from famed musician Bruce Springsteen on Friday night left him “weeping.” “Bruce [was] apparently flying around with the president today on the…
Pastor’s pre-election sermon: Obama is ‘paving the way for… the antichrist’
A Texas pastor who supports Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney warned in a pre-election sermon that President Barack Obama was “paving the way for the future reign of the antichrist.” Right Wing Watch on Tuesday published audio of First Baptist Church of Dallas Senior Pastor Robert Jeffress telling his congregation…
Giuliani: Obama’s storm response ‘worse’ than Katrina, ‘same’ as Benghazi
As voting was getting underway on Tuesday, Fox News had former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on twice in a two hour period to declare that the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Sandy was “worse” than George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina — and he claimed it was…
Oregon election worker fired for altering ballots to Republican straight ticket
An election worker in Oregon is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly altering multiple ballots to benefit Republican candidates. RELATED: PA voting machine ‘taken out of service’ for flipping votes to Romney In a press release on Monday, Clackamas County spokesperson Tim Heider said that 55-year-old Deanna Swenson had been…
Colbert to Nate Silver: ‘Put your balls on the felt’ and say how you really feel
Monday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert welcomed New York Times writer and author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, but Some Don’t, Nate Silver. After reading the book title, Colbert said, “Let me guess. Yours don’t.” “They could,” Silver said, “but we’ll…
Fox News begins election day with ‘alert’ over New Black Panthers
The Fox News Channel began election day on Tuesday by warning viewers about an alleged member of the New Black Panthers Party at one Pennsylvania polling place. “This is a member of the Black Panthers standing guard outside a polling place in Philadelphia,” co-host Gretchen Carlson noted following the blaring…
Maddow reviews accomplishments of Obama’s ‘historic presidency’
On the eve of Election Day, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reviewed the many accomplishments of President Barack Obama’s first term. Obama’s list of accomplishments included an equal pay law, expanding hate crimes laws, health care reform, revamping student loans, increasing national service programs, the “cash for clunkers” program, preventing a…
WATCH: Sherrod Brown sort of dances to Jay-Z
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) danced along during a Jay-Z performance at a campaign rally on Monday, the penultimate day of the 2012 elections, in a move that will likely have no impact on the outcome of Brown’s reelection race but that will leave many people amused nonetheless. In a…
Bernie Sanders: GOP wants ‘austerity for the middle class’
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Monday night that Republicans in Congress were likely to continue pushing for tax cuts after Election Day, despite the upcoming fiscal cliff. “It is very clear that virtually all of the Republicans are going to fight not only to extend Bush’s tax breaks…
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