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The 2012 Republican presidential nomination will not be won or lost on newspaper op-ed pages, or in the wood-paneled confines of a university classroom, where Mitt Romney spoke Thursday about health care. But that is where the field’s current front runner has been running his campaign so far. He didn’t show up at the first [...]
–Mitt Romney, explaining why he won’t criticize the individual health insurance mandate he enacted while governor of Massachusetts that’s similar to the requirement in Democrats’ federal overhaul.
The spouses of presidential candidates usually play a small, but non-trivial role, in the success or failure of campaigns. (Jeri Thompson is a personal favorite.) The horror expressed by Haley Barbour’s wife about the presidential campaign freak show reportedly contributed to his decision not to run. And two spouses in the news this week, Callista [...]
President Obama’s high-speed rail program has taken a lot of abuse because it isn’t just funding true high-speed rail; it’s also accelerating and improving service on moderate-speed trains. OK, guilty as charged. The program’s actual name is “High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail.” And now that Obama has redistributed the cash that Florida didn’t want — [...]
After a series of head-fakes and stutter steps, Newt Gingrich finally jumped in the GOP presidential race Wednesday, announcing his candidacy on Twitter and previewing his platform in a YouTube video set to soothing elevator music. The rollout wasn’t perfect: Gingrich’s website, Newt.org, still featured empty space earmarked for quotes from the candidate’s announcement, and [...]
Jon Huntsman is back from China, playing political catchup and eying an entrance into the wide-open Republican presidential field. Melinda Henneberger has a nice profile of Obama’s ex-ambassador in the dead tree edition of TIME hitting newsstands tomorrow, and nabbed the first interview with him since he returned to U.S. soil. A little news on [...]
Pakistan’s Gilani talks to TIME about the “trust deficit.” Obama will talk about the Arab Spring, but won’t yet effort a new push on Israel-Palestine détente. The Wall Street Journal preempts Romney’s health care remarks with a op-ed tagging him as “compromised.”
Mitt Romney hasn’t officially filed to run for President. He has no campaign manager. He hasn’t been to first-in-the-nation Iowa so far this year. Yet at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center in Ann Arbor, Romney will deliver a full-fledged, single-issue campaign speech. Why? You probably already know.
A look at how Memphians are reclaiming the Mississippi.
It begins.
