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“Women are not an interest group. You should not be treated that way,” Barack Obama said on Friday morning. It was an admirable sentiment, but the statement was disingenuous on its face. Women are an interest group, and will be until the last vestiges of gender discrimination are eradicated from American society. And Obama, by holding [...]
A couple of writers objected to the same sentence in my review of Mike Allen and Evan Thomas’ e-book “Inside the Circus.” The book, I argued, “captures the zeitgeist of what has been, for Republicans, a horribly depressing campaign. A very conservative party is on the verge of nominating a relative moderate whom nobody is very [...]
Mark Halperin scoops that Rick Santorum is meeting today in northern Virginia with conservative leaders to discuss the road ahead. Halperin quotes a Santorum source pushing back against mounting speculation, driven partly by the indefatigable candidate’s decision to take an Easter break from the campaign trail, that Santorum may soon shelve his presidential bid. “He [...]
As expected, Mitt Romney pulled off a three-state sweep on Tuesday night. As expected, pundits straining to inflate the evening’s drama cast the trifecta as a turning point in the Republican primary race. This is a bit like suggesting a football team ahead by three touchdowns has turned the corner with a fourth score. Romney’s [...]
For the 2012 election, the journalists Mike Allen and Evan Thomas are attempting the neat trick of chronicling the history of the campaign as a real-time serial. Their second installment on the Republican race, “Inside the Circus,” is a dishy account that tries to enliven the campaign’s well-worn themes — Mitt Romney is rich, his [...]
A gallery of winners (and losers) from the vice presidential vetting process through the years.
It’s 50 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny in Wisconsin, according to the local forecast. The cold days are almost done and so, too, is the Republican primary. In the week leading up to Tuesday’s nominating contest in Wisconsin, one of the few standing between Mitt Romney and iron-clad inevitability, GOP leaders rallied to the former governor’s banners. Romney finally has the party at his back. But that support also puts a new kind of burden on his shoulders.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
The new Newt Gingrich slipped into Washington with little fanfare. As his campaign downgrades from long shot to longer shot, the happy-go-lucky Speaker who slogged cheerfully through a series of defeats is finally letting his frustration show. Gingrich’s speech at Georgetown University on Wednesday evening sounded like a valedictory for a vanishing campaign. The boasts [...]
Paris As the Republican primaries drag on, some of Mitt Romney’s old friends are harking back to a time when, decades ago, the former governor honed his skills at winning over skeptics. That time was 1968, and the place, France, where Romney was stationed as a Mormon missionary. While the issue at that time was [...]
