The Republican National Committee took steps Thursday to change how it will pick its presidential candidate in 2016, the …
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Political Pictures of the Week, June 30-July 6
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Political Pictures of the Week, June 15-22
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Babies of the Campaign Trail
For presidential candidates, posing with supporters’ babies is a rite of passage as important as eating deep-fried state fair food or enduring endless debates. TIME celebrates this hallowed tradition with 34 photos of infants in …
The Not-Romney Candidates Look Ahead to South Carolina
In the days before the Iowa caucus, Rick Santorum had a decision to make. Spiking in the polls and positioned for a top-three result, Santorum could try to ride the wave into New Hampshire, where legions of free media awaited, …
As Romney Claims New Hampshire, the GOP Comes to Grips with His Inevitability
New Hampshire voters are famously fickle. They venture out on cold January mornings to shake a candidate’s hand, look him in the eye and judge the mettle of the man, polls and pundits be damned. Four years ago, they shrugged off …
Scenes from New Hampshire on Primary Day
Manchester, N.H.
On the morning of the New Hampshire primary, Ronald Reagan walked into Newt Gingrich’s campaign headquarters on a leash. The 3-year-old West Highland terrier strolled in with his owner, Dan Ferrante, a …
New Hampshire Creates Big Expectations, if Little Drama, as GOP Race Wears On
Somersworth, New Hampshire
In a final, frantic day of campaigning before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, the six Republican presidential hopefuls sought to calibrate expectations for a race from which Mitt Romney’s healthy …
Road to New Hampshire: The Primary Campaign’s Final Days in Photos
TIME captures Republicans, reporters and rabble-rousers on the campaign trail as the Granite State prepares to vote.
Why Ron Paul Is Gunning for Rick Santorum
Meredith, N.H.
Ron Paul set his sights on Rick Santorum the moment it became clear that the Texas Congressman would take bronze to Santorum’s silver in the Iowa caucuses. “We got one of the three tickets out of Iowa,” a campaign chair told a crowd waiting to hear Paul speak on Jan. 3. “And there are only two candidates in this …
Hecklers and Hostile Crowds Stymie Santorum in New Hampshire
Hollis, New Hampshire
It was a scene fit for a front-runner: an overflow crowd spilling out the doors of a Rockwellian barn on Saturday afternoon, kids perched in the rafters, an American flag tacked to one wall. The only …
What You Missed While Not Watching the New Hampshire Republican Debates
–6 minutes. At St. Anselm College, ABC News asks former Utah governor Jon Huntsman to take the stage first. Texas Governor Rick Perry peeks from behind the curtain instead, followed by the others. Huntsman is last out. Typical. …
How To Trip Mitt: Rhetorical Pitfalls for the GOP Front Runner
Friday night at a “spaghetti dinner” in Tilton, New Hampshire, a no-nonsense woman named Lisa Smith Brunelle, who is a single mother of four kids either in college or recently graduated, asked Mitt Romney whether he had any ideas …