Iowa junior Senator Joni Ernst, who rose to national prominence by working a record number of castration double entendres into an early campaign ad (Respect!), will be delivering the GOP's State of the Union rebuttal. This is fucking amazing news. » 1/15/15 5:30pm 1/15/15 5:30pm

Poll after humorously pathetic poll this year has suggested that Congress is about as popular as a temporary but debilitating illness (it sucks, but it's fun to wake up in a hospital room full of flowers!). So why don't Americans just do the sensible thing and vote out incumbents? Because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, that's why. » 11/10/14 5:30pm 11/10/14 5:30pm

Only 37% of registered voters nationwide cast ballots in the 2014 elections, the lowest turnout in a national election, percentage-wise, since 1942, reports the New York Times. Meanwhile, in Oregon nearly 70% of registered voters turned in ballots. Voters there legalized marijuana and passed an Equal Rights Amendment. » 11/06/14 6:30pm 11/06/14 6:30pm

Jon Stewart did not vote today in the 2014 midterm elections. The Daily Show host admitted in an interview Tuesday that he skipped out on exercising his constitutional right to vote this year due to a logistical snag. » 11/04/14 6:50pm 11/04/14 6:50pm

Lena Dunham's official book tour t-shirt is a pink little number that reads "LENA <3 PLANNED PARENTHOOD" in that awesome '70s book club font (shout out Elizabeth Olsen and Teddy Blanks). Last night, in advance of the November election, Dunham embarked upon an Instagramming spree showing her famous friends wearing… » 10/30/14 11:30am 10/30/14 11:30am

Caption this: Eva Longoria, actor, director, producer and activist speaks during the bus tour kickoff to support Leticia van de Putte for Lieutenant Governor on October 22, 2014 in San Antonio, Texas. » 10/23/14 11:05pm 10/23/14 11:05pm

The general elections are right around the corner and several states' governor races are neck and neck, so, please — for the love of uteruses, poor people and LGBT rights everywhere — get yourself to a polling place (or make sure you're good to vote early) on November 4th. » 10/23/14 7:00pm 10/23/14 7:00pm

It's important for a president to get out of D.C. and interact with normal, everyday people every now and then— even when those normal, everyday people happen to be Mike Jones, a Chicago early voter who heckled President Obama with "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend" when Obama happened to be placed next to… » 10/21/14 1:30pm 10/21/14 1:30pm

Here are some things that are like sex: pizza, driving a nice car very fast, being on high quality recreational drugs at a concert. Here are some things that are not like sex: voting. In fact, voting is not only just about the opposite of sex. But don't tell that to the earnest PSA and app architects who keep reaching… » 10/06/14 10:40am 10/06/14 10:40am

I was recently perusing the news, when I noticed this little blip from MSN.com about the GOP candidate for governor in Arkansas: » 5/22/14 9:06pm 5/22/14 9:06pm

A new poll by the Pew Research Center has all the info on what Americans will be looking for in a candidate for the 2016 presidential elections. The good news: The vast majority of people polled said they would have no problem voting for a woman. The bad: Everyone is still refusing to vote for atheists. » 5/20/14 6:45pm 5/20/14 6:45pm

During this election year, you can expect to see a change in tone in many political ads. If you're wondering if this means that they'll finally be less dumb, I'm sorry to disappoint; they are, unfortunately, going to get even more dumb, because conservative strategists have decided that the best way to reach ladies is… » 5/12/14 6:15pm 5/12/14 6:15pm

Would a Rose by any other name smell as sweet? Maybe. But she might not vote the same way. » 2/28/14 5:10am 2/28/14 5:10am

The only surviving polar bear cub can now be seen by the public (BRB, planning a trip to the zoo) and needs a name! » 2/12/14 10:11pm 2/12/14 10:11pm

Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians). This, it turns out, is an old stereotype. In fact, cats were a common symbol in suffragette imagery. Cats represented the domestic sphere, and anti-suffrage… » 12/06/13 7:15pm 12/06/13 7:15pm

North Carolinian Madison Kimrey is 12 years old and already more articulate and fabulous than 95% of the members of the United States Congress. Case in point: this speech she gave on Monday in protest of the state's idiotic new voting restrictions. And her outfit! If I wasn't so damn impressed by her poise, I'd be… » 10/30/13 3:20pm 10/30/13 3:20pm

After the Supreme Court's decision to strike down key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act this year, some states hit the ground running with new laws that would make it much more difficult for women and minorities to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, it now seems like this could bite them in the ass, as one of… » 10/25/13 3:40pm 10/25/13 3:40pm