Tampa
This is the love-in Mitt Romney never had. Mere minutes elapsed between the moment Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the GOP convention open and its weather-driven adjournment until Tuesday. …
2012 Election
RNC In Pictures: The Protests
Tropical Storm Isaac led organizers to cancel Monday’s lineup at the Republican National Convention, but protests in Tampa went ahead mostly as planned. Photographer Grant Cornett was on scene to capture the action
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.
Despite Headwinds, Obama Campaign Remains Confident
In May, after a round of interviews with senior Obama advisers, I concluded that they were, to a person, cautiously confident that their man could beat Mitt Romney.
“Because the popular vote is expected to be closer than it was four years ago, the Obama team is not being coy when it admits this will be a close
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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 …
TIME/CNN Poll: Obama Leads Romney in Florida
President Barack Obama has opened a narrow lead in Florida as Republicans gather in Tampa this week to nominate Mitt Romney, according to a new TIME/CNN/ORC poll. The survey also found the two candidates locked in a near tie in …
Potemkin Conventions: Why Are We Doing This Again?
Remind me: Why are we doing this?
That was the question bouncing around in my head after I spent my first 24 hours in Tampa on increasingly soggy ground. The twin horrors of Tropical Storm Isaac and the Nielsen ratings have …
The Tea Party’s New Model: Experienced Candidates Magnifying Movement’s Influence
The Paul Ryan Paradox: GOP ‘Ideas Man’ Playing Conventional Campaign Role
BuzzFeed has aggregated footage of Paul Ryan on the campaign telling the same joke over and over, in nearly the same blue shirt:
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New Column: Romney’s Foreign Policy Choice
I have a new print column out today, about Mitt Romney’s foreign policy choice: will he be a realist in the manner of George H.W. Bush or a neoconservative idealist, in the manner of George W?
Speaking of which, and given the impending climax of the Iran nuclear negotiations, I think it’s very counterproductive–indeed, maddeningly …
How Bain Shaped Romney
In this week’s cover story, Bart Gellman delivers some great reporting on Mitt Romney’s Bain days, his decision-making as a consultant and a private equity CEO. The fun is in the details: a joke Romney once told about polar bear …
The Making of Paul Ryan’s Big Ideas
Where does Paul Ryan get his ideas? The nation’s most famous budget wonk, recently added to Mitt Romney’s presidential ticket, is more than a number cruncher. He is a conservative reformer on a mission to overhaul–critics say devastate–the role and size of the federal government. To hear Ryan tell it, his mission is about more than a …
Why Akin Matters
We now have Representative Steve King (R., Ostrich) saying that he never heard of a girl getting pregnant because of statutory rape or incest. He thus joins Rep. Todd Akin (R., Clueless) among the ranks of blithering idiots …