From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: Liberals are furious with Obama for asking mega-church pastor and evangelical Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration. Conservatives are furious with Warren for accepting the invitation (just as they savaged him two years ago when he invited Obama to speak at his annual HIV/AIDS conference). But amid all [...]
From TIME’s David Von Drehle: You can color Missouri red–finally. Half a month after the polls closed, all of the Show Me state’s 114 counties (plus the independent city of St. Louis) have delivered their certified election results to Secrettary of State Robin Carnahan. As expected, Republican John McCain narrowly won the state’s 11 electoral [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: One more semi-related note on Rahm: Obama’s victory on Tuesday night means the streak of outsider campaigns beating insider campaigns continues. Going back to 1976, every new president has brought with him a team of outsiders—think Carter and Pat Caddell; Reagan and his California advisers; Clinton and Carville; Bush and the [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: Barack Obama is going to win by such a comfortable margin—flipping what looks to be nine states into the Democratic column—that the battleground counties we profiled in TIME over the past few months weren’t exactly pivotal to the outcome. But how and why they broke does give us some sense of [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: I recently spent some time in Hamilton County, which includes and surrounds Cincinnati in Ohio’s southwest corner, for our battleground county series in the magazine. Hamilton has always been reliably Republican — the urban population is relatively small and the suburbs are either socially conservative (working-class Catholics) or fiscally conservative (affluent [...]
From TIME’s Nathan Thornburgh: Plenty of observers noticed that it took two tries for Palin to actually come out and say Ted Stevens should resign. Less talked about were the reasons behind her reluctance. It’s not that there’s any love lost between Palin and Stevens—they had some ties, but were not close. He’s more or [...]
From TIME’s Amy Sullivan: There’s been growing momentum over the past few years behind an alternative approach to the abortion issue, an effort some people refer to as “abortion reduction.” The idea is that whether they’re pro-choice or pro-life, most people agree that it would be a good thing if the abortion rate could be [...]
