Jay Newton-Small

Jay Newton-Small is the congressional correspondent for TIME. Born in New York, she spent time growing up in Asia, Australia and Europe following her vagabond United Nations parents. A graduate of Tufts University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Jay previously covered politics for Bloomberg News. And, yes, despite the misleading name SHE is a she.

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+Uncategorized | 1553 days ago

Nader Spoils for a Fight

By Jay Newton-Small

Here‘s my Q&A with Ralph Nader today, a shortened verision of which will appear in the dead tree edition this week.

+Barack Obama | 1553 days ago

Edwards, What’s Taking So Long?

By Jay Newton-Small

What is John Edwards holding out for? Attorney general? Secretary of Labor? With each passing day the power of an Edwards endorsement is dwindling. Which begs the question: why didn’t he strike while the iron is hot? The progressive groups that endorsed him – and those whose sway he could’ve claimed if he’d endorsed earlier [...]

+Hillary Clinton | 1554 days ago

Ickes’ Sticky Memory

By Jay Newton-Small

At a Washington DC breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor this morning reporters did their utmost to get Clinton senior advisor Harold Ickes to admit the campaign has failed to meet even their own goals laid out in near daily conference calls since Super Tuesday.* Ickes played the expectations game like a maestro. One [...]

+Barack Obama | 1561 days ago

Slinging Cheese Curds

By Jay Newton-Small

When did Wisconsin get so nasty? In week dominated by tit-for-tat conference calls, mailers and tv spots filled with accusations and counter-punches the Obama campaign said today they expect this is just a preview for the Ohio and Texas contests on March 4. “I would imagine that what your seeing in Wisconsin is just a [...]

+Barack Obama | 1566 days ago

Obama Claims the (Thorny) Crown

By Jay Newton-Small

His blowout victories yesterday in the Potomac Primaries have prompted Barack Obama’s campaign to finally embrace his frontrunner status. After weeks of downplaying expectations, even before contests where he led in the polls by 20+ percentage points, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe today said: “We believe that it’s next to impossible for Senator Clinton to [...]

+Barack Obama | 1573 days ago

Obama is the Frontrunner

By Jay Newton-Small

For anyone who thinks this race might be a tie, and yes, David Axelrod, that includes you, there’s a lot of evidence today that Obama is now the frontrunner. He leads in number of states won, he leads by his own campaign’s tally in pledged delegates, he is so far ahead in the money race [...]

+Barack Obama | 1574 days ago

Inside Obama’s Party

By Jay Newton-Small

It’s 8:30pm CDT in Chicago and Obama’s victory party at the Hyatt in downtown Chicago is just starting to fill up. Most of the select attendees are long time volunteers or donors. After a messy South Carolina victory party where hundreds of people, including many press, were locked out by the fire marshal, the campaign [...]

+Barack Obama | 1574 days ago

Dems Debating Debates

By Jay Newton-Small

At a press conference all about lowering expectations, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe got a little peeved when asked about the Clinton campaign’s announcement today that she will be doing four more debates, calling the move a “tactic out of the second tier congressional campaign playbook so I’m a little surprised that we’ve spent so [...]

+Barack Obama | 1574 days ago

Obama: “Clinton is the Favorite”

By Jay Newton-Small

Senator Barack Obama cast his vote in his hometown of Hyde Park, IL today, quipping: “It was close but in the end I went for Obama.” He then paused to answer a couple of questions for reporters. He played down expectations, but in the end predicted that no clear winner will emerge from today’s voting. [...]

+Uncategorized | 1575 days ago

Kerry-Obama, Full Circle

By Jay Newton-Small

Four years ago John Kerry took the stage on a rainy April evening in Chicago. It was the day after the Illinois primary – the contest that put Kerry over the 50% threshold of Democratic delegates and made him nominee presumptive. He was there to campaign on behalf of the newly minted Democratic nominee to [...]