Jon Husted: The Powerful Official Behind Ohio’s Vote
Ohio secretary of state Jon Husted is ready for a fight. Come Nov. 7, he may get one — and the presidency may depend on the outcome
Massimo Calabresi
Massimo Calabresi joined the Washington bureau of TIME in 1999 and has covered the CIA, State, Justice, Treasury, Congress and the White House. He covered the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo as TIME's Central Europe bureau chief from 1995 to 1999 and the collapse of the Soviet Union as a freelancer in Moscow in 1991.
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Nov. 7 Nightmares: When Voting Goes Bad
As Americans count the hours until the election is over, thousands of lawyers for the Obama and Romney campaigns are preparing for the possibility that the counting of votes will stretch well beyond Tuesday night.
Report: Benghazi Presence Was a CIA Operation
If you read one story today, let it be the game-changing article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
Remembering 1980: Are the Polls Missing Something?
In November 1980, the great TIME correspondent and editor John F. Stacks (a mentor to such stars as John Dickerson and many others) won the unenviable task of analyzing how and why every single public pollster (including ours) …
Governor Christie on Sandy, Romney and Obama
Here is the clip of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Fox & Friends this morning, slamming the suggestion (at 2:05) that he and Romney might “tour some of the damage” from Sandy and praising Obama’s handling of the disaster (at 5:25). Rich political matter.
Election Nightmare Scenarios: What Could Happen on Nov. 7?
The neck-and-neck 2012 race for the White House is unharnessing a stable-full of nightmares.
Voter-Registration Fraud Exists
A lot of people on the left have been decrying GOP efforts to pass voter ID laws nationwide this year, arguing there is little or no voter fraud and that Republicans are just trying to suppress likely Democratic voters. Well, at least with regard to voter registration fraud, those critics are wrong: it may well exist.
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Did Obama Spin the Benghazi Attack?
UPDATED 9:20 a.m. 9/28/12
The perpetrators behind the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, had been looking for an opportunity to attack …
Fast and Furious Report Destroys Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
For more than a year and a half, everyone from House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa to right-wing provocateurs on Fox News have been lobbing fiery accusations about Operation Fast and Furious, including that it was a plot conceived by the White House for a variety of nefarious purposes.
Romney’s Campaign Is Far from Dead
Some of my colleagues are declaring Mitt Romney’s presidential hopes dead and buried; some are enthusiastically dancing on his political grave. This is premature. True, the latest video of Romney denouncing nearly half the country as self-pitying mooches seems to confirm the caricature of a heartless plutocrat that Democrats have spent …
Bush Officials and 9/11: They Had a Plan
Reporter Kurt Eichenwald has new details in the New York Times today about the blindness and inaction of the George W. Bush Administration in the run-up to 9/11. In addition to the well-known Aug. 6 presidential daily brief …
Obama’s Economy: The President Asks Voters to Go on Faith
Democrats are reveling in the damage the GOP base has done to Mitt Romney’s chances to defeat President Obama in November. Between Todd Akin’s malapropist contribution to the political lexicon (“legitimate rape”) and Romney’s …
The Man Behind Romney’s Israel Trip
Under real-world rules, Dan Senor should not be anywhere near Mitt Romney‘s foreign policy inner circle. This is the man who, as spokesman for the disastrous Bush Administration reconstruction effort in Iraq, told a group of reporters, according to Imperial Life in the Emerald City by the Washington Post‘s Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Off …
