TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
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 [...]
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Republican presidential candidates and their supporters swarm the Land of Lincoln for Tuesday’s contest.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
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 varying states of joy, indifference and abject terror on the campaign trail in 2012.
Winning the presidency was never Ron Paul’s foremost goal, and as he nears the end of his last presidential crusade, he has one more chance to promote his ideas. Only Mitt Romney has a real shot at amassing the 1,144 delegates required to wrap up the nomination, and he would then have to unify the GOP’s warring factions. Which is why Paul’s campaign has sent discreet signals to Camp Romney that the keys to Paul’s shop can be had for the right price.
Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi cast their ballots in Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday.
Voters in 10 states go to the polls to cast their ballots in the Republican presidential primary bonanza.
A week makes all the difference in the media narrative — and very little in the pecking order. Super Tuesday, a coast-to-coast flurry of democracy with 10 states and 437 delegates at stake, is supposed to be an inflection point of the Republican nominating fight. Instead, it is likely to produce a split decision that resurrects the old conventional wisdom by reaffirming Romney, the best-funded and best-organized candidate, as the inevitable nominee.
