Mitt Romney may not have the mainstream media to kick around anymore.

Coming out of the Super Tuesday contests, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination enjoyed his best period of press coverage all year, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. 

Despite losing four of ten contests to Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, fifty eight percent of coverage last week about Romney was positive, the study reports.

Just sixteen percent of articles about Romney were negative. 

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Obama pitching another government program— or just a good television program?

President Obama gave a shout out to actor Aziz Ansari at a fundraiser in New York City last week, revealing that his 13-year-old daughter is a huge fan the NBC show “Parks and Recreation.”

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“Now, this is big because Malia is a big ‘Parks and Recreation’ fan,” said Obama. “So having Aziz here is like the only thing she thinks is worth me doing.” He went on to...

Let's be honest: Rick Santorum supporters -- and Democrats -- weren't the only ones rooting for a Santorum win in Tuesday's primaries.

Two hours before the polls closed, MSNBC's Chris Matthews sounded like a reporter's reporter at the top of "Hardball." No, not because he played it down the middle: A reporter's reporter roots not for the candidate he or she likes best, but for the candidate who's win would be the best story.

"Tonight we stand watch, again, at the political abyss of Mitt Romney," Matthews said with just a touch of melodrama. "He may win tonight and avoid a devastating fall. But if he loses the fall could be deadly. How does Romney explaining...