2012

The day after the close of the 2012 Republican National Convention, Vice President Joe Biden came out swinging at inaccuracies in a speech given by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and calling Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to account for pressuring the government to bail out help his former private equity firm Bain & Company.

White House challenger Mitt Romney rushed to storm-ravaged New Orleans on Friday in a bid to burnish his presidential credentials ahead of his November battle with Barack Obama.

A judge in Ohio has ordered election officials to restore early voting in the days before the election. According to the Ohio Capital Blog, U.S. District judge Peter C. Economus has ruled that in the interest of placing "all Ohio voters on equal standing," the state must reinstitute its popular early voting program.

A day after being crowned the Republican contender for the White House, Mitt Romney on Friday finally unwrapped a gleaming newcampaign plane.

Ann Romney says that her husband is "used to" passing up multi-million job offers and that the "poor guy" didn't even get paid for running the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

A Republican Senate candidate from Pennsylvania who said that out-of-wedlock pregnancy was similar to rape is being accused of a second sexist comment after video emerged of him telling women at a Paul Ryan campaign event that he assumed they were "talking about shoes."

At a Thursday morning fundraiser for his super PAC, former Bush political strategist Karl Rove told an audience of billionaires and influential investors that a chance for Republican control of the Senate is in jeopardy, then made a joke about Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) being "mysteriously murdered."

Even as the Republican Convention in Tampa winds down, instances of highly questionable judgment on the part of its attendees continue to make headlines. According to Think Progress, Pennsylvania delegate Mark Harris and his wife Irene took a trip to Disney's Epcot Center as a part of their trip to Florida, and were shocked and horrified by what they found there.

Ann Romney says she appreciates the support of actor Clint Eastwood and the "unique thing" he did during his Thursday speech at the Republican National Convention, but she would have rather seen a video praising her husband, Mitt Romney.

In a surprise revelation, billionaire industrialist and tea party financier David Koch, one half of the sometimes infamous Koch brothers, said Thursday night that he's in favor of same sex marriage.

If you felt so overwhelmed with Republican National Convention coverage this week that you just did the mental equivalent of hitting "ignore," we don't blame you. With literally thousands of reporters descending on Tampa this week, The Atlantic's Molly Ball admitted, "Sure, the conventions are a manufactured event, more infomercial than news."

Mitt Romney vowed to rescue the US economy and create jobs as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination at the climax of a convention that sought to humanize the candidate.

TAMPA, Florida — Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney accepted the Republican presidential nomination with a prime-time pitch to voters on the final night of the party convention in Tampa, Florida.