This gun control controversy is a real gift to Republicans.

It got them out of the morose election postmortem. Now, they're in their zone. Guns! — such invigorating shift from having to talk about...

Paul Krugman is "feeling so despondent."

Why? "Because of the way Obama negotiated" the fiscal cliff deal. He gave every indication of being more or less desperate to cut ...

A conversation for the end of the year.

"He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to... run."

Tagg Romney tells on his dad, Mitt. "If he could have found someone else to take his place...  he would have been ecstatic to step asid...

Ridiculous WaPo headline + photo combination.

"A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid" ? He doesn't look detached or wounded and he's ...

"'White turkey chili': That's what President Obama served Mitt Romney for lunch."

"Was this really an intentional (ungracious, gloating, etc.) slap? I'm a paranoid — but it is the sort of thing the hard core polit...

"Power-hungry Bay State Democrats — eyeing another potential Senate opening if U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry joins the Obama Cabinet..."

"... are quietly discussing reinstating a 2004 law that would let Gov. Deval Patrick appoint a permanent replacement to help keep the s...

"Mitt Romney Is Now Officially the Most Hated Man in America."

Kevin Drum.

"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic."

"It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia."

"Mitt Romney is losing 593 friends per hour..."

"... at least on Facebook today from 10 to 11 a.m. You can loiter on his page and watch them plummet by the second." That was wri...

"If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is … you’re the mark."

An old David Mamet quote, deployed in the second-to-last sentence in an article titled "Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Con...

"After three decades of remarkably seamless career hopping — from Bain Capital to the Olympic Games..."

"... from governor of Massachusetts to constant candidate for president — Mr. Romney is now a restless chief executive with no organiza...

"It appears Mitt Romney's campaign prepared a transition site in the event that he won."

Screen shots... of what might have been. AND: Romney "was shellshocked."

"President Obama’s post-election offer to sit down with vanquished GOP rival Mitt Romney has spurred talk..."

" ... of a possible White House role for Romney, a move that could help calm jitters on Wall Street and warm the partisan chill on Capi...

"Advisers to Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that they were surprised by the scale of their loss to President Barack Obama..."

"... while big-time GOP donors griped about the campaign’s unflinching confidence in the final stretch." “They ran a 20th century ...

The NY Daily News endorses Romney.

It endorsed Obama in '08, but it doesn't always endorse the Democrat . It endorsed Bush in 2004. Here 's today's endorsemen...

Vote — for revenge... or love?

This clip neatly embodies a reason why I believe Romney will win. He feels like optimism, and Obama — who once owned the word "hope...

Irrelevant benefits to Obama's losing the election, #1.

I write "#1" with confidence, as if I know I'll have additional reasons and this post is the first in a series. "Irreleva...

Did Chris Christie "sudden love-in" with Obama hurt Mitt Romney?

"Sudden love-in" is the Washington Post's terminology. There is no professed motivation for Christie’s newfound feelings for t...

"A presidential candidate who gives millions of dollars a year to charity does a storm relief event in Ohio..."

"... and an MSNBC anchor is disgusted by it because the Red Cross would prefer people donating cash" ... even with the large video...