Politics

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed how the campaign to elect former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), never a model of honesty and forthrightness, is now mounting an all-out putsch to scrub portions of its record before the election.  Maddow said that they're working particularly hard to cover up the campaign's history of extreme views on women's rights and abortion.

Friday night on "Real Time With Bill Maher," host Bill Maher and a panel including MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor, Wall Street Journal columnist and author John Fund and Daily Caller contributor Boris Epshteyn discussed the right wing myth of Democratic voter fraud and the very real steps that the Republican Party has been taking to keep traditionally Democratic constituencies away from the polls in swing states like Ohio and Virginia.

In criticizing the "Republican bubble" Friday night, Bill Maher denounced his two conservative guests during a panel discussion on the second presidential debate and the fact-checking on the Libyan consulate attack that tripped Mitt Romney up.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) hold a campaign rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, Friday with country singer John Rich of the popular duo Big & Rich.

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a key figure in the U.S. Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, cut a rug as part of a voter registration drive.

MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid hammered Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) on Hardball Friday during a discussion on the Republican party's positions on women's health issues.

The multimillion-dollar high-rise being built near his office, Bill Moyers said Friday, is evidence of the "new Gilded Age" running roughshod over the U.S., which he discussed with journalists Chrystia Freeland and Matt Taibbi.

For the second time in a week, a Colorado field office for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has been targeted.

At a campaign rally in Fairfax, Virginia this afternoon, President Barack Obama went after his opponent former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)'s habit of adapting his political tune to whatever audience he is speaking to, a habit that Obama dubbed "Romnesia."

The director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization says that a CNN host kicked him off her program earlier this week because she is part of the "gay Gestapo."

An adviser to Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson on Thursday mocked Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, by referring to him as "Reince Penis."

After Mitt Romney's son, Tagg, said recently said that he wanted to punch President Barack Obama for insulting his dad, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell on Thursday invited the younger Romney to "take a swing at me."

Tea party-backed Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) suggested on Thursday that exceptions to abortion bans were not necessary to protect the mother's health because science had advanced to the point that pregnant women can't die.