Comedy and politics unite during election

President Obama and Governer Romney face a lot of laughs and criticism over the debates.  These “jokes” range from broad topics and come from comedians on late night talk shows and young adults on social networking sites.

Some of the comments about Romney involve race, the “binders full of women” statement he made in the second debate, his physical characteristics, family and his wealth.

“Mitt Romney said he had binders of women made up,” Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” said. “But first of all, who else keeps binders of women? Serial killers. Every serial killer movie, the cops bust into the serial killer’s lair and what do they find? Binders of women…and then they open the freezer and a head falls out.”

“Romney can see poor people from his house…working in the garden,” WitStream.com wrote. “For Halloween I’m going as the Romney campaign: a screaming sack of burning money.”

For the President, jokes center on the country’s debt, unemployment, the economy and Romney’s possible victory.

“The good news for the White house is that unemployment has dropped to 7.8 percent, right where it was when President Obama took office,” Jay Leno, host of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” said. “So Obama has gone from ‘Change you can believe in’ to ‘Can you believe there’s not change?’”

“President Obama is seeking to make his case with first time voters,” Leno said. “Well, you can understand why. Second time voters have graduated and can’t find a job.”

Some popular pages on Twitter have also made jokes about the candidates. In some cases, people describe they’d rather do the worst thing possible (to themselves) than vote for Romney or Obama.

I’d rather take a bus driver uppercut #ThanVoteForRomney

I’d rather wait till I’m 30 to legally drink alcohol #ThanVoteForRomney

I’d rather listen to SpongeBob laugh all day and night #ThanVoteForRomney

I’d rather approach a street gang at 1 a.m. and ask, “Anyone got change for a hundred.”#ThanVoteForObama

I would rather slide down a 20 foot razor blade into a pool of lodine#ThanVoteForObama

I would rather wipe with sandpaper#ThanVoteForObama

On other pages on Twitter the goal of the “joke” is to prove how incompetent the candidates were for their position.

Can poor people vote? #RomneyGoogleHistory

Things poor people talk about #RomneyGoogleHistory

How much do groceries cost? #RomneyGoogleHistory

Fastest way to ruin a country in 4 years#ObamaGoogleHistory

Do Leprechauns exist and can their pot of gold pay off the debt#ObamaGoogleHistory

Where is Libya (Google maps) #ObamaGoogleHistory

The candidates have also taken a few cracks at themselves and their opponents in a non-confrontational way.

“Many of you may have noticed that I had much more energy in the second debate because of a nice long nap in the first debate,” Obama said. “I went to the city today to do some shopping at some of the stores. Romney went to the city too, but to shop for some stores.”

“Present Obama and I are both very lucky to have one person who’s always in our corner,” Romney said. “Someone who we can always lean on and someone who’s a comforting presence. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to go another day. I have my beautiful wife Ann. He has Bill Clinton.”