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This is an issue that is not getting much attention in the presidential campaign–or in Congress–but a battle is raging out in the states. Here’s a story I wrote about it for TIME.com.
The Governors are objecting primarily because of the costs, but civil libertarians have raised concerns about the new licenses as well, saying they are, in effect, a national ID card. That argument that may gain more resonance amid all these stories about passport snooping.
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.
