While most of the media have gone ridiculously aflutter over Sarah Palin’s latest diesel-powered tourist outing slash fan dance, a far more interesting caper is quietly unfolding in New Hampshire. Former New York governor George Pataki is airing a new ad on a Granite State TV station, WMUR. The ad comes from a Pataki-sponsored group [...]
Corrected, 12:00 P.M. Jon Huntsman’s first trip to New Hampshire was a get-to-know-you affair, a chance to showcase his skills as a retail politician as he hopscotched through gun shops, VFW halls and living rooms. By virtually all accounts it was a success. The press coverage was fawning, even as Huntsman ducked policy inquiries, declining [...]
With the media chasing Sarah Palin’s tour bus up the East Coast and buzz about her presidential prospects renewed, TIME’s Feifei Sun looks at the former Alaska governor’s exploits on the trail in 2011
When Sarah Palin was a child, her parents would pile their four kids in the car and take road trips across Alaska and Canada. “In our old car that the front door didn’t open and we all had to climb over the back seat,” Sally Heath, her mother, said on Sunday as she gazed at [...]
Almost any politician in the U.S. follows tried and true patterns when dealing with the media. They alert the media of an upcoming event, the media shows up, photos are taken, cameras roll. Sometimes questions follow. And then the media goes home. But not Sarah Palin.
For much of 2010, Sarah Palin kept the media whipped into a frenzied state over one question: Will she or won’t she run for President? Reporters picked apart every move from pragmatic candidate endorsements in early primary states to her mama bear-references on her Alaska-themed reality show. This means she will. That means she won’t. [...]
Talk to just about any Democratic strategist these days, and the first or third thing mentioned is the wonderfulness of having an opponent again. Back in 2010, of course, Democrats tried for months to pretend they were running against something — John Boehner, George Bush’s legacy, Slurpees — but the public never bought it. That [...]
At the annual Rolling Thunder event in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Sarah Palin will kick off a week-long tour of U.S. historical sites. She will be accompanied by her husband Todd and daughter Piper. “The tour will originate in Washington, D.C., and will proceed north up the east coast,” reads a statement from her PAC. [...]
Vowing to help assemble “the most robust, aggressive presidential campaign in history,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, lashed Barack Obama’s Republican opponents in terms the GOP often uses to attack the President. “Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman — I’m concerned about their commitment to American exceptionalism,” she said [...]
After receiving an “A” from the Cato institute in 2010 for his record as governor of Minnesota, you might think that members of the libertarian think tank would be excited by the prospect that Tim Pawlenty, who outperformed Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour in that basic policy test last year, remains in the running for [...]
