Politics

GOP operative Mary Matalin on Sunday said that the Republican Party would mount a third-party or write-in campaign to defeat Rep. Todd Akin (R), whose bid to defeat Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is in danger after he suggested women could not get pregnant by "legitimate rape."

Bill Nye, host of the popular nineties children's show Bill Nye the Science Guy, is warning parents to not teach their children creationism because, he says, it does them a disservice by undermining their scientific understanding and development.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) on Sunday asserted that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was sending "coded messages" and pandering to white voters by making jokes suggesting that President Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush offered a broad critique of the current Republican party on Meet the Press Sunday, saying that for the party to stay relevant in future years, members must do a better job of reaching out to and attracting more diverse voters.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney insists that he didn't shut down his tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Switzerland because it would "avoid the truth" and he wasn't going to "manipulate my life" just to become president.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday said he supported presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's joke about President Barack Obama's birth certificate because the race needs "levity."

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says that women should support him because of a health insurance law he passed as the governor of Massachusetts -- even though he has promised to repeal a similar law passed by President Barack Obama.

On Friday night's edition of "The Young Turks," host Cenk Uygur highlighted a report by controversial Republican political operative Roger Stone. The report alleges that vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) arrived at his place on the ticket through the machinations of David Koch, half of the powerful billionaire Koch brothers.

The campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama has released a new ad responding to Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)'s "birther" joke yesterday at an appearance in Michigan.

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow was joined by "Up with Chris Hayes" host Chris Hayes for a discussion of the fact that in the thick of the campaign, with fewer and fewer things running in his favor, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) has resorted to trolling liberals in order to shore up his credibility with the right wing base.

On Friday night's episode of HBO's Real Time, host Bill Maher took Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin to task.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney came the closest yet on Friday to personally embracing the so-called birther movement's theory that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says that he personally believes that rape is just another "method of conception" and not an excuse to allow abortions.