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With the Presidential debates in our rear-view mirror and the election less than two weeks away, YouTube has taken some time to reflect on the viewership numbers from their live st...

Watch the Third Party Candidates Debate Live on YouTube

Tonight, the final Presidential debate takes place between Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. And although those are the two candidates f...

Romney’s Binders Full of Women Remark Gives Birth to Crappy Flash Game

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this election is weird, and it's being made weird by the internet. And I'm not saying this is a bad thing - at all. All I'm saying is t...

Jimmy Kimmel Proves Our Electorate Is Made Up of Liars

Who do you think won this year's First Lady debate? Ann Romney? Michelle Obama? I'm sure whoever came off as more knowledgeable and agressive without being condescending is the...

Second Presidential Debate Sees 7.2 Million Tweets

Last night's town hall debate saw the two Presidential candidates go at it for a little over an hour and a half on topics both foreign and domestic (mostly domestic). We've alread...

Binders Full of Women: The Comment That Launched a Thousand Social Media Pages

Last night's second Presidential debate saw the two candidates clash over mostly domestic issues, with a few foreign issues sprinkled in. The town hall format meant that audience...

President Obama Probably Doesn’t Approve This Message from Pauly Shore

In the world of political endorsements, I'm not exactly sure where Pauly Shore ranks. Maybe somewhere between Lindsay Lohan and Kid Rock. I guess it really doesn't matter how the...

Vice Presidential Debate Saw 3.5 Million Tweets

Last week's first Presidential debate broke a Twitter record. With over 10 million total tweets comi...

Use Your Facebook Data to Smear Yourself with a Negative Political Ad (It’s Fun, I Promise)

There's a new project out from PBS NewsHour that allows anyone to create political ads for themselves with Facebook data. It's called...

Vice Presidential Debate Streaming Live on YouTube [Reminder]

If you want to see the current Vice President of the United States and the man that could assume that role battle it out face-to-face, tonight's your only chance. At 9 pm ET, Jo...

Google Maps Hot-Button Political Search Terms Across the U.S.

If you weren't aware, Google has info on our searches just sitting around. Since we, as a nation, make millions and millions of searches every week, you'd expect that Google has q...

First Presidential Debate Undergoes a Bad Lip Reading

If you missed the first Presidential debate, don't worry - there are still two more to go. And even if there were no more televised contests it would be cool, because Bad Lip Read...

Sesame Street Wants Obama Campaign to Take Down Big Bird Ad

Poor Big Bird. Nobody wants to be inserted into a campaign as rough as the one currently playing out for President of the United States, and I can imagine that the eight-foot tall...

Watch Celebrities Tell You to Vote, For Anything

It's that time of the year again (ok, time of the every four years). It's voting season, which means there will be plenty of people who come along and tell you that you have to vo...

Watch the Presidential Debate Live on Your Xbox (It’s Interactive, If You’re into That)

Political junkies, members of the informed electorate, concerned citizens: Y...

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