In honor of his keynote speech Tuesday night, I thought I’d recount a revealing story about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. If you think of …
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The Organizer: How Reince Priebus Got the Convention (and the GOP) Back on Track
Tampa
Most Americans have probably never heard of him. Those who have still can’t pronounce his name. But he is the official leader of the Republican Party, and the GOP’s face here in Tampa this week — at least until …
Downtown Tampa Still Awaiting Flood of Convention Money
Tampa is famous for many things: its beaches, the cigars of Ybor City and being the place where actor Channing Tatum was a stripper before he played one in the movies. This week, the city joins the ranks of Chicago and …
The Ascent of Ann Romney
With Ann Romney, what you see is what you get, except when it’s not. The would-be First Lady is indeed a picture-perfect country-club Republican woman, bright and attractive at 63, with a rich, handsome husband and five …
Ron Paul in Tampa: A GOP Outsider’s Last Hurrah
Tampa
The Sun Dome at the University of South Florida (USF) is typically filled with basketball fans and shouts of “Go Bulls!” But on the Sunday before the Republican National Convention, it hosted a different sort of …
The Ticket: Romney and Ryan Go to Tampa
So what kind of convention will it turn out to be?
Everyone already knows that the Republican faithful will gather in Tampa this week to nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to take on Barack Obama and Joe Biden in November. …
Mitt’s Moment: TIME Talks to Romney About Business, Budgets and Beliefs
Managing editor Rick Stengel and senior correspondent Michael Crowley spoke with the Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday for the Sept. 3 issue of TIME, now available online to subscribers. A lightly edited transcript follows.
Romney at the Convention: Whom Will Mitt Speak To?
The Republican Convention is Mitt Romney’s first big opportunity since the primaries to speak directly to general-election voters. Will he focus on rallying the Republican base, or will he try to connect with the swing voters …
“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars.”
Can Occupy Wall Street Be Used Against Obama?
The Republican National Committee seems to think the answer is yes. Here the tear gas in Oakland is shown to describe instability in Obama’s America, and the Occupy protesters are used to demonstrate dissatisfaction with Obama.
American Crossroads and the Ascendant Super PACs
The leaders of American Crossroads, the conservative super PAC formed last year under the watch of Karl Rove, sat down with reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in D.C. this morning. The subject of the discussion was, of course, money: the role deep-pocketed super PACs will play in 2012 and the specific spending plans of …
Out of the Spotlight and Into the Margins
Ben Smith has nabbed a letter from some wealthy Republican donors urging others to send money to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Smith notes, rightly, that this is further evidence that although RNC Chair Michael Steele is no longer in the spotlight as a liability to the party, he’s still being marginalized – in an election …
Let’s Have Another Round Of RNC “Office Supplies”
Lindsay Beyerstein dug a bit deeper into the Republican National Committee’s expense report–the one with the “meals” at the lesbian bondage-themed nightclub–and found some questionable categorization.
Listed on the report in the category of “office supplies” are purchases from a New England winery and a Capitol Hill liquor store, as
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