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Michael Crowley at TNR is reporting that Arlen Specter is about to either change parties or caucus with Democrats. Huge, if true.
It’s true. I don’t think I have to explain the importance of a 60-vote super-majority for the Democrats in the Senate (assuming that Al Franken is allowed to serve sometime before his 6-year term runs out).
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.
