Philip Rucker at the Washington Post is out with this new piece, based on dozens of interviews with Romney’s friends and neighbors: Mitt Romney looks out the windows of his beach house here in La Jolla, a moneyed and pristine enclave of San Diego, at noisy construction workers fixing up his next-door neighbor’s home, sending regular updates […]

On Thursday, President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet together for the first time since Obama defeated Romney on November 6. “On Thursday, Governor Romney will have a private lunch at the White House with President Obama in the Private Dining Room. It will be the first opportunity they have had to visit since the […]

Romney’s chief campaign strategist Stuart Stevens, who has kept his head low since his campaign’s loss on November 6, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post today: “Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight.” Nobody liked Romney except voters. What began in a small field in New Hampshire grew into a national movement. It wasn’t our […]

Asked by the Weekly Standard about a potential second presidential run in 2016, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum’s reaction was similar to that of most other potential 2016 candidates: “I’m open to it, yeah,” Santorum replied. “I think there’s a fight right now as to what the soul of the Republican party’s going to be and […]

Speaking to the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a former senior adviser to Mitt Romney specifically named Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as “craven hypocrites” for bashing Mitt Romney only days after praising the former Republican nominee and lobbying for cabinet positions in a Romney administration. “There were one or two well-known […]

Romney, who has largely avoided public attention since his defeat to President Obama last Tuesday, returned to Facebook yesterday by posting a candid picture of himself (with notably ruffled hair) hugging Ann. ”Hope everyone had a great Thanskgiving! Much to be thankful for this year,” the former presidential candidate wrote. The misspelling of “Thanksgiving” serves as […]

In an interview with Politico‘s Mike Allen, Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign’s manager, revealed that his team believed that former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, who also served as President Obama’s Ambassador to China, would likely have been a tougher general election opponent than Mitt Romney. “Um, hmm, that’s a good question,” Messina said when Allen […]

In a post-election statement whose purpose seemed to be to explain why Gallup was wrong about the election outcome, Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport included what can only be interpreted as a dig at the New York Times‘ Nate Silver and predicted analyses like Silver’s could result in less polling in future cycles: It’s not easy nor […]

On November 20 a picture of former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney filling up his gas tank surfaced on Reddit. Based on Romney’s expression, our suggested caption: “Stop taking a ****ing pictures of me.”

by Trevor Antley and Calvin Roberts. [Update: The election has been called, and the winner of Ohio was President Barack Obama. Our forecast, as we noted was very possible, turned out to be incorrect. While the problem with the model can't be verified until after full election results come in, it is most likely that […]