TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
Hello, and good morning, and welcome to your Sunday morning liveblog. And now: goodbye! Yes, some super-genius in Hell has decided that the debate schedule...
The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For January 6, 2012
The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from...
Can Twitter Predict Election Winners? Should We Be Excited? (No.)
If you watched the CNN's Iowa caucus coverage Tuesday night (or caught our highlight reel of the same), you probably were treated to another extension...
After Iowa, Santorum’s Challenge Is Ramping Up His Shoestring Operation
The close second-place Iowa finish has given Rick Santorum's candidacy new life, but he is now playing catch-up with the new top tier. And he has a lot of catching up to do.
A Fond Farewell To Michele Bachmann
The Iowa caucuses are perhaps better known as a contest that culls certain losers from a field of candidates than one that anoints the winner....
Anti-Romney Conservatives To Take One Last Stab At Preventing His Anointment
If you recall, as far back as May of last year, various forces had begun to mobilize in the conservative movement to prevent Mitt Romney...
The Real Results Of The Iowa Caucus: Hardly Anybody Voted, And Nobody Won Anything
So, with the Iowa caucuses in the books, our attention turns to the matter of who "won" last night. Technically, the "winner" is Mitt Romney,...
WATCH: CNN’s Madcap, Hologrammed, Punch-Drunk Caucus Night
CNN outdid everyone else last night with hours of frantic, high-tech whiz-banging over an evening that eventually became chaotic and punch-drunk. Yes, there were holograms. And "magic walls." And tables full of pundits, sitting around doing nothing. There was something called a "flick," which was stolen from the movie Minority Report. No expense was spared...
Romney, Gingrich Predict They Will Either Win Or Lose In Iowa, Unless They Don’t, Depending On When You Ask
There's only a few hours left before the Iowa caucuses, which means in a few hours, the Iowa Caucuses are going to happen. Time for...
Rick Santorum’s Sweaters Are Now A Thing, Because Reporters In Iowa Are Bored
In the clearest sign that all of the reporters in Iowa have run out of local Iowa culinary fare to take Instagrams of and are...
Iowa Caucus: It’s Actually Totally Okay If You Haven’t The Faintest Clue About What Is Going To Happen
The Iowa caucuses will be getting underway in just a few hours, and normally, as events speed themselves toward the conclusion of a thing, one expects bewilderment to fade and for a certain amount of well ... certainty to start to congeal. But this is Iowa, in an election year, and the whole point is...
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
I'm back after two weeks of treating myself to not having to watch these shows by using Christmas as a convenient escape hatch. Why can't Christmas always be on a Sunday? How were these shows on Christmas morning? Were they terrible?
