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Credit: paulryan.house.gov Update: Watch the Romney campaign announcement live here. Mitt Romney has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate, according to a campaign statement. The official announcement is expected Saturday morning at the launch of a Romney for America four-day bus tour in Norfolk, Virginia. In prepared remarks, Rep. Ryan immediately launched an attack on President Obama's record. "This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years," Rep. Ryan

Though the Mitt Romney campaign app got off to a slow start, it has finally caught up to the social networks like Twitter that virally spread news reports of a possible Paul Ryan pick late Friday, and confirmed those reports early Saturday with these words: "Mitt's choice for VP is Paul Ryan. Spread the word about America's comeback team." Now that the congressman from Wisconsin, known for his fiscal policy rhetoric, is Mitt Romney's confirmed running mate, Paul Ryan's voting record and politi

Credit: Foreign Policy Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday morning. Rep. Ryan is a shrewd decision from a domestic policy angle. He is a major architect of the Republican's Path to Prosperity, a vocal member of the GOP majority in Congress, as well as youthful, fresh and predicted to invigorate the Republican base. But between a relatively young Wisconsin Congressman and the former Governor of Massachusetts, where is the foreign policy experience? What a

Photo: Gage Skidmore Early Saturday morning, The Associated Press, Reuters, NBC News, and Huffington Post all began reporting that Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick had been confirmed by Republican sources and would be announced at a scheduled event at 9am Saturday. Though many commentators are calling it a bold pick and a breath of fresh air, the move may signal the Romney campaign's desperation to energize Republican voters ahead of the Republican nominating convention and the general ele

Credit: Wired Despite a much-lauded campaign mobile app designed to break the news of Romney for America's choice for vice president, news of the campaign's decision broke on Twitter hours before a formal announcement. By 10-11pm EST, major news outlets were reporting of Gov. Romney's imminent announcement of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee. In a case of much ado about nothing, when word leaked late Friday of Romney's vice president decision, it came via Twitter, not

The Mitt Romney campaign will announce their choice for Vice President tomorrow morning, says campaign spokespeople. Gov. Romney will announce his pick at a campaign stop in Norfolk, Virginia tomorrow at 9am. Unverified reports late Friday night say Rep. Paul Ryan will be named as Gov. Romney's running mate. CNN reports Romney called Republicans on the short list late Friday evening, but did not disclose his final decision. Stay tuned, IVN will be covering the VP pick announcement and campai

Another week of the presidential campaign cycle, another wave of campaign ads hitting airwaves. The media teams of Obama for America and Romney for President have traded barbs all summer long, with no end in sight. Claims of dishonesty and distorting records are abound. The following is a compilation of the major campaign ads made by the Romney and Obama camps, so far. Most ads last around 30 seconds to a minute, and tend to exploit what we do not know. If we really want to dig deeper into the

Mass Shootings in 2012: A Google Map Perspective Following the shooting attack in Wisconsin and last month's massacre in Colorado, I felt it would be interesting to show how many shootings have been deemed significant by the press or by other gun safety advocates using a Google Map. A quick Google search revealed a report compiled by the largest gun control advocates in the county, The Brady Campaign for Gun Violence.  The report lists all of the "Mass Shootings Since 2005" and gives excerpts f

Wade Michael Page has been identified as the suspected Sikh Temple shooter who killed six worshipers on Sunday before a police officer fatally shot him. Authorities say he had 9/11 tattoo on one of his arms and was a member of white supremacist groups. He was also reportedly a member of several extreme right-wing racist bands, including a band called Blue Eyed Devils. As new insight rolls in, it seems it would be quite fair to describe him as a Neo-Nazi. Perhaps he blamed Sikhs for September 11

With the news of the shootings at the Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and with the movie theater shooting near Denver, Colorado, I wonder what we are becoming when people can't enjoy a night out at the movies or a day of prayer in our religious homes. There is absolutely no reason for actions such as this.  And though gun control will likely get into the debate, that is not what this is at this time.  Instead, we as a nation and a community are left to grapple with what has transpire