Alex Altman

Alex Altman is a Washington correspondent for TIME.

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A Tea Party Champion Faces Political Reality in New Hampshire

Back in January, Tea Partying businessman Jack Kimball sprang an upset in New Hampshire, toppling an establishment-backed Republican to become the chair of the Granite State’s GOP. Kimball, 64, had a paper-thin political resume headlined by a losing bid for governor. But his purist politics won him fans within the state’s burgeoning Tea …

Can Jon Huntsman’s Jobs Plan Resurrect His Campaign?

Jon Huntsman is mired in the cellar of presidential primary polls and battling the perception that his brand of conservatism may be better suited for a bygone era. His campaign needs a jolt of energy, and he’s hoping that the economic agenda he outlined during a Wednesday speech at a Hudson, N.H., manufacturing company will provide …

Romney at the Center of a Tea Party Spat

FreedomWorks, the big-time Tea Party booster run by seasoned Washington insiders, has been a co-sponsor of the latest cross-country bus tour organized by the Sacramento-based Tea Party Express, a sign of the uneasy peace that has mostly prevailed between the myriad Tea Party factions. But Mitt Romney’s planned appearance on the tour has …

Hurricane Politics

Hurricane Irene wreaked billions of dollars in damage, inundated cities and towns and killed at least 35. For hundreds of thousands more, it was either a life-changing calamity or a close call. But for politicians, it was also a chance to showcase leadership and promote their vision of government in a moment of peril. President Obama …

Radtke and RedState: A Brewing Tea Party Feud

Jamie Radtke announced she was running for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia last December, a month after five Tea Party upstarts swept into the chamber in the anti-incumbent wave. A rising star at the center of the commonwealth’s thriving Tea Party movement, Radtke “was supposed to be the Tea Party’s next giant-killer,”

Ron Paul, “The One”?

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On the heels of his second-place finish in the Ames straw poll, Ron Paul is up in Iowa and New Hampshire with a new ad that casts the Texas Representative as a lone crusader in a “lost city.” According to Politico’s James Hohmann, who first reported it, the 65-second spot is a …

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