Politics

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed (D) said on Sunday's Meet the Press that Mitt Romney's comments about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax show once again that the candidate is "defective," comparing Romney to a race car driver who is constantly grinding along the track's wall.

President Obama has given up on the space program and is allowing rival superpowers China and Russia to dominate that field, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan said at a campaign stop in Florida on Saturday.

Bay Buchanan, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, on Sunday doubled down on the Republican presidential nominee's comment that 47 percent of Americans refused to take personal responsibility for their lives by asserting that the entire country was "a nation of people dependent on their government."

Former President Bill Clinton is warning that President Barack Obama's edge in the polls may not be enough to defeat GOP hopeful Mitt Romney because the Republican Party was using voter suppression techniques to target traditionally Democratic voters like African-American church members and the elderly.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter asserted on Sunday that Democrats were making a mistake by "dropping the blacks" in favor of Hispanics because rights for LGBT people and immigrants are not true civil rights.

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus claimed on Sunday that his party had a "good week" after video surfaced of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney insulting 47 percent of Americans, and said that the presidential candidate didn't need to offer more details about his policies because "we've got specifics coming out our eyeballs."

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol says that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is going to have a tough time winning if the election is a referendum on President Barack Obama's first term.

Pennsylvania's married or divorced women voters will have a harder time making it to the polls, Melissa Harris-Perry said on her show Saturday.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said his campaign does not need a turnaround in an interview scheduled to air on 60 Minutes Sunday.

In an appearance on Jennifer Granholm's Current TV show, The War Room, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said Mitt Romney's campaign only released the candidate's tax returns Friday to distract people from Romney's damaging remarks about lower-income Americans.

Rachel Maddow, puzzling Friday night over the unexpected news dump of Mitt Romney's 2011 tax returns, pointed out that by Romney's own standard, his tax returns disqualify him from the presidency.

On Friday night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, panelist Chris Matthews renewed his accusations against Republicans of racist campaigning, in a confrontation with right-wing radio host Roger Hedgecock

Rep. Todd Akin's (R-MO) performance during a Missouri senatorial debate Friday, Ed Schultz said on The Ed Show that evening, was part of a wave of problems more Republican candidates are encountering in the wake of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's infamous "47 percent" video.