Not all election coverage is on the East Coast: Al Gore anchors election...
You’ll hear it a lot tonight on MSNBC — about how they’re broadcasting from “Democracy Square” in New York. Yeah, yeah, whatever. The West Coast is the home to an all-star cast of election night...
View ArticleNBC, Fox News call election for Obama
NBC News has called the 2012 presidential election for President Obama. So has Fox News. After both networks called Ohio for Obama, they brought the gavel down on 2012. Virginia, Nevada and Florida...
View ArticleSix key takeaways from Tuesday’s election results
There truly is a demographic tidal wave sweeping over the nation, and Republicans ignore it at their own peril.
View ArticleFrom the polls to the president: which presidential polls were the most accurate
Even as votes started rolling in from the polls it was a tight presidential race to call. And with an election this close, major national polls varied by five percent or less. Some were closer than...
View ArticleThe Tweetelection: Obama had more than just the ground game in his favor
President Barack Obama might have won yesterday's election thanks to his ground game, but the 44th president also dominated the race on social media.
View ArticleConfused about the Petraeus scandal? Here is a flowchart from Gawker that...
On Friday, CIA Director David Petraeus announced that he is resigned from the agency due to having engaged in an extramarital affair.
View ArticleFox’s chair Roger Ailes told Petraeus he’d quit to manage his prez campaign...
Fox News likes to call itself “fair and balanced.” Key words: “call itself.” The latest blunder for the cable news ratings leader is rooted in the new revelation that founder and chair Roger Ailes sent...
View ArticleKarl Rove, Dick Morris to disappear from Fox. For a while. (VIDEO)
You won’t be seeing any more Karl Rove meltdowns or Dick Morris flat-out-wrong predictions on Fox News. For a while. Sez New York Magazine:Fox News chief Roger “Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming...
View ArticleMitt Romney Wins!….Lie of the Year award
Mitt Romney may have lost the election, but he did win something Wednesday: Politifact’s annual Lie of the Year...uh…award. Mitt took home the hardware for his statement that Barack Obama “sold...
View ArticleNote explains why Current sold to Al Jazeera: Shared values.
The big question behind the sale of San Francisco-based Current TV is “Why would owners Al Gore and Joel Hyatt sell to Al Jazeera?” OK, besides the estimated $500...
View ArticleNew law requires notice before seizing media phone records
A new California law should prevent police from seizing journalists’ phone records without warning, as the Obama administration’s Justice Department did to the Associated Press last year. SB558 by Sen....
View ArticleNo Tea Party aid for Ro Khanna
Various reports that the Tea Party Express might come to the aid of challenger Ro Khanna in his Dem-on-Dem challenge to seven-term incumbent Mike Honda in his Silicon Valley district were discounted...
View ArticleCA lawmaker: ‘We don’t need that many new laws’
Assembly Republicans are backing a proposal to cut in half the number of bills lawmakers are allowed to introduce during their two-year terms. Assembly members are currently allowed to introduce 40...
View ArticleAssembly approves Robin Williams tunnel
The California Assembly unanimously voted Thursday to name the tunnel that connects the Golden Gate Bridge to greater Marin County after the late comedian Robin Williams. Following a 76-0 vote, the...
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