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Obama’s decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty well. Its massive, high-rise headquarters in Chicago achieves a balance between 2008’s casual dorm room (there’s a ping pong table and homemade signage) and 2012’s systematized Death Star (work stations sub-divided as ever more employees are added). The place hums from early morning until late at night.
Mitt Romney’s Illinois win could be the beginning of the end of the Republican nomination fight. In order to get there, he faces just one more challenge: Persuading Republicans and the media that he’s a sure thing.
1. Romney will face inordinate pressure to shake up his campaign team. 2. He will face public questions from elected officials and Republican strategists about his electability and competence that will make past doubts seem mild. 3. He will have even more trouble raising money for his campaign and his Super PAC. 4. He will face more pressure to [...]
In a Republican-primary season marked by political chaos, here’s something that finally seems settled: Mitt Romney will win the Tuesday, Jan. 31, Florida primary. So say the latest public polls, several of which suggest Romney has a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich. So say Romney supporters, who have delighted in discombobulating the former Speaker with [...]
Mitt Romney has been running his presidential campaign based on a primal instinct: kill or be killed. And so after Rick Santorum fought Romney to a virtual tie in Iowa and arrived in New Hampshire trailed by media hordes, Romney’s Boston headquarters decided it was time to take the former Pennsylvania Senator down. Boston trotted [...]
