TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
–President Obama campaigning in Iowa.
Romney feels haunted by gaffes. Ground zero, Wisconsin. The Senate race is a better bellwether than the recall.
Why the Massachusetts Senate race is close: the fundamentals favor Warren, Brown is more popular. George Will chalks it up to off-putting identity politics of l’affaire de Cherokee, though the polling suggests it’s not having a huge effect. Fewer Americans are identifying as “pro-choice” even though their views on abortion haven’t changed.
”Uncommitted” and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It’s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall. A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about [...]
Obama and Romney run dead even on the economy, which 80% say is still bad though a slim majority now feel hopeful about its direction. The way for conservatives to embrace Romney is to pressure him. Unable to further avail the White House, Catholic institutions sue the Obama Administration over contraception coverage requirement. HHS awards [...]
How Mormonism shaped Romney. How 1968 shaped Romney. How Obama narrowed the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Joe Ricketts backs off Jeremiah Wright. Romney’s first TV ad of the general election: greenlight the Keystone pipeline, cut taxes, repeal health reform. The Federal Reserve Board is now fully staffed for the first time since 2006. (It’s not like much happened in the realm of monetary policy over the last six years, right?) Mann [...]
