Mitt Romney has put a lot of work into reversing the perception, prevalent during his 2008 campaign, that his ideological compass only follows the magnetic field of whichever electorate he happens to be trying to win over. The …
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Is Romney Poised to Make a Multi-Million Dollar Gamble on Iowa?
Last week, on his first visit to Iowa since August, Mitt Romney vowed to make up for lost time. “I’ll be here again and again,” he promised, alluding to the final sprint to the state’s pivotal caucuses. “I’d love to win in Iowa. …
Lessons of ’08: Romney’s Rivals Could Collude
As my colleague Michael Crowley notes, the anti-Mitt Romney vote is still a lot bigger than the pro-Romney vote. I agree with Michael that Romney doesn’t have this thing as sewn up as the inside the Beltway pundits are saying. That said, he’s smartly playing his rivals off of one another to ensure that that anti-Romney vote is never …
Is Romney Really the Inevitable Nominee?
That’s increasingly the consensus among the Washington insider set. But I’m still not sold.
The Flipside of Romney’s Technocratic Campaign: Impugning Perry’s Intellect
Mitt Romney is running for President as the candidate best equipped to repair the U.S. economy. Romney’s pitch is that turning around the economy isn’t so different from turning around businesses, as he did at Bain Capital, or turning around the failing 2002 winter Olympics. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, the man is a …
Romney in New Hampshire: Holding Onto a Broad but Tenuous Lead
Salem, N.H.
Mitt Romney is in front-runner’s form. Romney is standing amid a crush of supporters, warming up the standing-room town hall crowd at an Elks Lodge adorned with mauve stage curtains and plenty of his royal-blue …
Romney’s Luck Continues
A few days ago I argued that Mitt Romney, in addition to being a much improved candidate since 2008, has also been incredibly lucky. He had a long head start the GOP race as the rest of the field was slow to assemble. He avoided …
In Newly Unveiled Economic Agenda, the Romney Brand Distilled
Mitt Romney’s second presidential run has largely focused on a single theme: Barack Obama has bungled the economy, and I’m the guy who can fix it. Romney points to his business and management expertise, honed in the boardrooms of …
The Rich History of Mitt Romney
The former Massachusetts governor and runner-up for the 2008 Republican presidential ticket is poised to seize his party’s 2012 nomination for the White House. TIME looks at his vibrant family life, business career and political trials.
Health Care Problem Creeping Up on Romney Again
Mitt Romney was slow to dive into close-contact retail campaigning–for months Romney snuck along with a frontrunner campaign, popping up occasionally to bash the President’s “failure” on the economy– and we’re starting to see why. The political media seemed to lose interest in RomneyCare ever since since the former Massachusetts …
Mitt Romney Declares “Corporations Are People”
If you want to see why Mitt Romney is on track to become the next Republican nominee for President, you should watch the stump speech he just delivered at the Iowa State Fair. He was electric, passionate, focused and having fun, …
Operation “Kill Romney”
Mitt Romney’s camp is up in arms today about a Politico report that team Obama plans to “kill Romney” with a barrage of personal attacks that make him out to be a weirdo who flunks the have-a-beer-with-him test. (“Disgraceful,” Romney’s campaign manager told Fox News this morning.) Never mind that the metaphor quoted above is exceedingly …
Romney’s Recession Riddle
The political media is having fun with a new Mitt Romney flip-flop, namely that the former Massachusetts governor first said, last week, that Barack Obama’s policies made the great recession worse, then denied having saying said that*, and then repeated the original charge in New Hampshire on Sunday, saying that “the recession is deeper …