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The Clinton campaign announces the endorsements of actresses Melanie Griffith and Eva Longoria Parker, who will be campaigning with her Monday in Texas. We’ve argued back and forth here in the Swamp over whether endorsements make any difference, but I can’t help thinking HRC would pick up a few votes (at least in my home town) if she could talk Eva into bringing along her awesomazing husband, the Lone Star State’s favorite Frenchman.
P.S.: Go Spurs!
Mitt Romney lashed President Obama’s economic stewardship in an interview with TIME’s Mark Halperin on Wednesday, deflecting attacks on his years as a private equity executive and laying out how he hopes to take control of the economy as soon as he’s sworn in, should he defeat Obama in November.
This week’s TIME cover story, “The Mother of the Mitt Campaign,” tells the tale of how Lenore Romney’s 1970 run for U.S. Senate may have made a bigger impression on the Republican presidential candidate than his years spent as the son of a governor. Mitt’s father lost his own presidential bid, but it was the lessons from his mother’s loss that are more instructive as Romney enters the campaign stretch.
