The Republican National Committee is set to release a major new digital strategy Monday, called the "Growth and Opportunity Project" - a report ordered by RNC Chair Reince Priebus after Mitt Romney's loss in November. Read More
Elections/Election 2012
NOW Today: More confusion?
With strategies like this.... The Republican National Committee is set to unveil a new autopsy to help republicans change course and fix the problems that led… Read More
To win back black voters, GOP must do more than ‘show up’
In her guest Open Letter, theGrio managing editor Joy Reid offered some thoughts on RNC chairman Reince Priebus' "African American listening tour." Read More
Scott Prouty offers final thoughts on Romney in ‘last’ television interview
Scott Prouty, the 38-year-old bartender behind the infamous 47% video dropped by NOW with Alex Wagner on Friday, saying it would be "the last television interview that I do." Read More
Let Me Start: Change of heart
A dramatic reversal on gay marriage by an influential Republican senator: Ohio's Rob Portman now says he supports gay marriage, a change of heart triggered after his son came out. Read More
Obama used the 47% video ‘exactly the way I would have hoped’
When President Obama finally referred to the tape in a debate, Prouty was thrilled: "I think he used it to great effect..It defined Romney in a real negative light but in an honest light." Read More
How voter ID kept minority youths from the polls in 2012
Researchers discovered that African American and Latino youth were more likely to be asked for ID, and more likely to not even try to cast a ballot because they lacked it. Read More
The ’47% tape’ and the man who revealed the real Mitt Romney
Finally, meet the bartender who changed political history by secretly recording Mitt Romney's 47% remarks. He'll be interviewed on "The Ed Show" Wednesday night. Read More
First Word: Ryan Budget 3.0
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan will reveal his budget plan today for the third time in the last three years. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he stresses that the only way to balance he budget is by using Obama's tax increases and Obamacare's Medicare cuts. Read More
Let Me Start: Crossing the aisle
President Obama is preparing to meet the House Republican conference, but after four years of near vitriol towards this president from Republicans, how much can… Read More
Lawrence O’Donnell rewrites Scott Brown’s political future
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell argues that Scott Brown made the conscious decision to end his political career on Monday by joining a Boston law firm as a lobbyist focusing "his practice on business and governmental affairs." Read More
Guess who has a new job? Romney heads back to private sector
Sources confirm that former presidential nominee Mitt Romney is back to work in the private sector, joining his eldest son's investment firm in Boston as chairman of the executive committee. Read More
The real GOP voter fraud: Employees admit forging voter registration forms
Employees of a consulting company hired by the GOP admit to destroying dozens of registration forms, and one claims she was told not to register Democrats. Read More
Top Links: Jeb Bush’s immigration flip-flops may determine his 2016 status for him
Top story: Former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Florida, won’t rule out a 2016 presidential run, though the criticism from the left and the right over his immigration… Read More
The MVP of the 2012 campaign: James Carter IV
James Carter IV, the Democratic opposition researcher who discovered Mitt Romney's "47%" video, explained how he stumbled upon it and how President Obama thanked him for his contribution to the 2012 presidential race. Read More
Top Links: Perhaps Republicans should sequester Mitt and Ann Romney
Mitt and Ann Romney certainly stepped in it much worse during campaign 2012. But their extended interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" shows they haven't lost their ability to give comedians material and Republicans heartburn. Read More
Pennsylvania takes lead on Republican plan to rework Electoral College
Late last week, a plan that would've given Mitt Romney 8 of Pennsylvania's 20 votes was introduced by Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi and 12 other Republican senators—that's already half the votes needed to pass the plan in the Senate. Read More
Romney campaign done in by bad ‘Kabuki’
Chief strategist Stuart Stevens took responsibility for Mitt Romney's loss Sunday, while also describing the candidate's "Kabuki" theater. Read More
Voting rights bill will honor Desiline Victor, 102-year-old Florida voter
Hoping to fixing Florida’s flawed voting system, State Senator Oscar Braynon, along with civil rights organizations such as the Advancement Project, are joining 102-year-old voter Desiline Victor to introduce a bill that will protect and improve the right to vote in Florida. Read More
Idealizing Millennials is no more accurate than condemning them
It's nice to get some positive press. But author David Burstein's over-reaching praise of his fellow Millennials is just as inaccurate as everyone else's criticisms. The thing to know about all Millennials is that there's no such thing as 'all Millennials.' Read More

