French Anti-Gay Marriage Movement Is The Toast Of American Culture Warriors
National Organization for Marriage forced to look farther afield after a losing election year.
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22 Bills Being Considered By Congress That Will Blow Your Mind
Yes, these are all real bills currently being considered in the US Congress.
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Around The World With Hillary Clinton
An infographic guide to Hillary Clinton’s travels as Secretary of State. (via state.gov)
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First Out LGBT Person Elected To Pennsylvania Legislature Sworn In
Brian Sims made history on Tuesday when he took office as the first person elected to the Pennsylvania legislature as an out LGBT person. He joins Rep. Mike Fleck, who announced after his re-election that he was gay.
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24 People Who Will Be Running Washington Next Year
A new group of communications-obsessed operatives for the Twitter age.
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15 Things We Can All Agree On
We may be divided by politics and Twilight, but here are some things everyone can agree on.
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Election Celebrations Around The World
America wasn’t the only country celebrating last night.
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Celebrating Tammy Baldwin’s Historic Win
The United State’s elected its first openly gay senator last night, and people are pretty excited.
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Roseanne Barr Placed 5th In The Presidential Election
She ended the night with a little over 48,000 votes, and even though she didn’t win, she seemed thrilled for Obama.
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10 Songs To Guide You Through Last Night’s Election
Sometimes a song can capture a moment better than a picture or video.
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This What A Woman Twerking For Obama Looks Like
Get ready to be inspired everyone.
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15 Best Election Day Treats
It doesn’t get much better than Paul Ryan shortbread.
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What Your Books And Websites Say About Your Politics
Conservative readers love Drudge and Ayn Rand; liberals like the Times and Noam Chomsky; and there’s not much in the middle. The last infographic from Engage.
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How Election Day Will Break Twitter
The central channel for America’s political conversation is likely to be all but unusable on Tuesday. A strange bookend to the Twitter Election.
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How Politics Get Shared
Social media is where more of on-the-ground political conversation is happening than ever before, largely through link sharing. It’s the site of Glenn Beck’s social revival, and a high impact for Rachel Maddow.
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Crying Four-Year-Old Speaks For How Sick America Is Of Politics
Abby is tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney alike. NPR pushed her over the edge.
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Facebook Lets People Talk Politics, But May Not Get Out The Vote
A new study shows that sharing your political views online doesn’t necessarily increase your feeling that they matter.
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Romney Camp Says They Don’t Make Hats In China
An image of a made-in-China hat is everywhere today, but it’s not official swag.
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The Newest Frontier In Political Advertising: Partisan Wi-Fi
A new router hack replaces website ads with political messages. Friendly advice for IT guys: Unless you work at a campaign office, you might want to skip this one.
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Lena Dunham Obama Ad Echoes Vladimir Putin’s Creepiest Campaign Video
The politics of comparing politics and sex. Try not to think about Joe Biden. (h/t Foreign Policy.
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Katy Perry Wore A Dress With A Giant Ballot On It To An Obama Rally Last Night
Is this a ballot for Texas!? Get it, because everything is bigger there? Haha.
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UnPolitic Your Feeds!
Are Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and your friends who like to talk about them DRIVING YOU INSANE? With a click of a button, you can replace the politics posts on BuzzFeed, Facebook, and Twitter with…cats!
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23 Best Twitter Reactions To The Final Presidential Debate
The best quips, 140 characters at a time.
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Five Idealistic Quotes From George McGovern
George McGovern has passed away at age 90. The former senator was earnestly devoted to liberal ideals for his entire life, even after he lost the 1972 presidential race to Richard Nixon.
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The Hofstra Presidential Debate, As Told By GIFs
Obama and Romney’s most contentious debate yet, looped in GIF-form forever.
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Hillary Clinton: “I Take Responsiblity” For Benghazi
The Secretary of State commented to CNN that she was taking responsibility for the lack of security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi before the attacks.
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The Vice Presidential Debate (As Told By GIFs)
Joe Biden might have the most GIF-able smile in politics.
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The Best Line Of The Vice Presidential Debate
When talking about foreign policy, Joe Biden almost said “shit” on live TV.
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Scott Brown: Other States Should Be “Incentivized” To Follow Massachusetts’ Health Care Plan
But maintains that Obamacare is the wrong way to do it.
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The Internet’s March On Washington
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian just set the Internet’s next big political campaign into action — almost by accident. Congressmen, Senators, Hill staffers: brace yourselves for Geek Day.
