U.S. POLITICS 2012

With the U.S. debate winding down, meme generators are in overdrive:

As of this typing, @FiredBigBird has 8,500 followers. His profile: “Just got fired by Mitt Romney”

The first in our series of Twitter replies to threats on Big Bird

Here’s what Maclean’s writers had to say as they followed the U.S. presidential debate

Round 1: Obama vs. Romney, as told by Twitter

This just in, sort of … not really

The president’s post-convention jump in the polls has the Republicans flummoxed

Anne Kingston on Michelle Obama, the ‘mom-off’ and the role of women outside of motherhood

Luiza Ch. Savage looks at the Republican campaign’s foreign-policy fumble

No match for Clinton, Obama makes an OK play for country’s soul

President uses DNC speech to articulate a governing creed

DNC speakers rip Romney ticket while invoking Obama’s record