November 7, 2012

In Focus: Election Night 2012: Reactions in Photos

Late last night, as the outcome of the presidential election became clear, supporters of Barack Obama celebrated his victory, as his challenger, Republican nominee Mitt Romney, conceded the race and offered his congratulations. Obama won the popular vote by more than 2.5 million votes, and took the electoral vote by 303 to 206. Supporters of both candidates rode an emotional rollercoaster last night as results were slowly reported, ending in disappointment for some, elation for others, as Barack Obama now heads into a second term as President of the United States. Collected here are images from yesterday’s election, from here at home, and abroad.

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Filed under: Politics Election 2012 Obama Romney Biden Paul Ryan 
October 11, 2012

The Internet Can’t Get Enough of Paul Ryan’s Curls

And neither can we.

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Filed under: Paul Ryan Workout Photography 
October 11, 2012
Paul Ryan Beefcake Photos Released: Abs Remain Elusive Paul Ryan has posed for beefcake photos in which he flexes his biceps while doing reps of what high school gym coaches nationwide call “curls for girls,” bicep curls that make your arms beefy for the ladies but don’t really make you stronger or better at sports. Read more. [Image: TIME]

Paul Ryan Beefcake Photos Released: Abs Remain Elusive

Paul Ryan has posed for beefcake photos in which he flexes his biceps while doing reps of what high school gym coaches nationwide call “curls for girls,” bicep curls that make your arms beefy for the ladies but don’t really make you stronger or better at sports.

Read more. [Image: TIME]

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Filed under: Paul Ryan Politics Photography Gym 
September 6, 2012
How the Convention Speeches Played on Twitter The line in yellow on the chart above shows the number of tweets per minute about the Democratic convention during Wednesday night’s session featuring Bill Clinton. In red, tweets per minute on the equivalent night of the Republican convention last week, featuring vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Clinton’s Twitter traffic peaked at over 22,000 when he finished speaking and President Obama joined him at the podium. Ryan’s speech, by contrast, barely topped 5,000 at its highest point. Read more.

How the Convention Speeches Played on Twitter

The line in yellow on the chart above shows the number of tweets per minute about the Democratic convention during Wednesday night’s session featuring Bill Clinton. In red, tweets per minute on the equivalent night of the Republican convention last week, featuring vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Clinton’s Twitter traffic peaked at over 22,000 when he finished speaking and President Obama joined him at the podium. Ryan’s speech, by contrast, barely topped 5,000 at its highest point.

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Filed under: Politics Election 2012 Twitter Bill Clinton Paul Ryan 
August 30, 2012
"A major party’s nominee for national office apparently just doesn’t care that he is standing in front of millions and telling easily catchable lies."

— James Fallows, on Paul Ryan’s GOP convention speech.

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Filed under: Politics Paul Ryan Election 2012 
August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Doublespeak Before Paul Ryan had even wrapped his speech last night at the GOP convention, fact-checkers had their work cut out for them. The address repeated several misleading lines that have worked to great effect for the Romney campaign in recent weeks. Among them: And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. […] Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it. Ryan presents the $716 billion figure as an all-out attack by Obama against seniors. But what Ryan elides is that his own budget plan, which was passed by the House in 2011 and again in March of this year, contains the same exact cuts to Medicare. Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Paul Ryan’s Medicare Doublespeak

Before Paul Ryan had even wrapped his speech last night at the GOP convention, fact-checkers had their work cut out for them. The address repeated several misleading lines that have worked to great effect for the Romney campaign in recent weeks. Among them:

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. […] Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it.

Ryan presents the $716 billion figure as an all-out attack by Obama against seniors. But what Ryan elides is that his own budget plan, which was passed by the House in 2011 and again in March of this year, contains the same exact cuts to Medicare.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Filed under: Politics Paul Ryan Medicare Election 2012 
August 29, 2012
Paul Ryan Gets a 10% Favorable Rating From Democrats [Image: Gallup]

Paul Ryan Gets a 10% Favorable Rating From Democrats

[Image: Gallup]

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Filed under: Paul Ryan Politics Democrats Poll 
August 22, 2012

The Strange World of Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan Fan Fiction

Warning: Some of it is raunchy and mention of dressage is not off-limits

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Filed under: Art Literature Face Fiction Politics Romney Paul Ryan 
August 14, 2012
Banner Above Paul Ryan-Led Event: ‘Hey girl, choose me, lose choice - P. Ryan’ [Image: @EamonJavers]

Banner Above Paul Ryan-Led Event: ‘Hey girl, choose me, lose choice - P. Ryan’

[Image: @EamonJavers]

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Filed under: Paul Ryan Gosling Paul Ryan Politics News 
August 14, 2012
Is Medicaid Doomed? How Ryan’s Plan Would Affect America’s Very Poorest Democrats are giddy to attack Paul Ryan’s Medicare reforms, but it’s his plan for Medicaid that will have the fastest and most massive impact on the U.S. health care. How massive? Think 44 million additional Americans without health insurance, in a worst case scenario.   If that number leaves you a bit dizzy, or skeptical, it’s a testament to how radically Ryan would like to reshape the federal program that’s responsible for insuring low-income Americans, and which also happens to be at the heart of Obamacare’s attempt to expand health coverage. In the most recent budget proposal, Ryan pledged to cut Medicaid spending by $810 billion dollars over ten years. But forget the precise dollar figures for a moment. Romney’s new running-mate doesn’t just want to trim the program. He wants to bulldoze the whole thing, then build a more modest replacement in its place.   Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Is Medicaid Doomed? How Ryan’s Plan Would Affect America’s Very Poorest

Democrats are giddy to attack Paul Ryan’s Medicare reforms, but it’s his plan for Medicaid that will have the fastest and most massive impact on the U.S. health care. How massive? Think 44 million additional Americans without health insurance, in a worst case scenario.  

If that number leaves you a bit dizzy, or skeptical, it’s a testament to how radically Ryan would like to reshape the federal program that’s responsible for insuring low-income Americans, and which also happens to be at the heart of Obamacare’s attempt to expand health coverage. In the most recent budget proposal, Ryan pledged to cut Medicaid spending by $810 billion dollars over ten years. But forget the precise dollar figures for a moment. Romney’s new running-mate doesn’t just want to trim the program. He wants to bulldoze the whole thing, then build a more modest replacement in its place.  

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Filed under: Politics Medicaid Paul Ryan Republicans Election 2012 Mitt Romney 
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