There’s a bit of a panic raging in the conservative commentariat today with twin columns from the Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol and the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board urging Mitt Romney to correct his course. President …
2012 Election
Romney’s Latest, Greatest Twist On The Individual Mandate
The contortionists impress, until they twist again. Then the crowd goes “Awww.” On Tuesday, I tried to explain all the knots both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had tied as they tried to bend with the political winds on the …
Why Romney Probably Won’t Harp on Health Care
After much bluster from Republicans last week about how the Supreme Court‘s Obamacare decision would be a 2012 election game-changer, it’s starting to look as though the Romney campaign won’t, in fact, make Obamacare a central …
Newt Gingrich Takes Italian Vacation While His Campaign Remains in Mop Up Mode
Everyone deserves a holiday, and barking about politicians’ vacations is standard practice (See: President Obama going to Martha’s Vineyard during the recession). But it seems fair to suggest that politicians invite scrutiny of …
Decision 2012: Battle of the Health Care Contortionists
Both major party candidates running for President, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, say America faces a clear choice in November. But good luck figuring out all the fine print, especially when it comes to their positions on health …
Health Care Issue May Fade Fast for Romney
Mitt Romney has long run a campaign obsessively focused on Barack Obama’s economic record. Romney has been so monomaniacal that I recently wondered in this space whether he might actually be putting too much emphasis on the …
Hatch’s Victory Blueprint and the Tea Party’s Limits
Orrin Hatch’s win in the Utah Republican primary Tuesday night — a triumph that all but ensures he’ll add another term to his 36-year tenure in the Senate — was a tribute to Hatch’s textbook strategy for rebuffing an upstart …
One-Note Mitt: Is Romney Too Focused on the Economy?
However the Supreme Court rules on Barack Obama’s health care law this week, it’s still the economy that will likely determine the president’s fate—or so Mitt Romney’s campaign says. The presumptive Republican …
Obama vs. Romney on Immigration
From the “no core” division of the Obama campaign’s messaging operation comes this new Web video, essentially a compendium of news reporters carping about Mitt Romney’s evasiveness on immigration policy:
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Romney Debuts a Lighter Touch on Immigration
Pare away the tough economic talk and the requisite condemnations of President Obama, and Mitt Romney’s Thursday address at a conference of Latino elected officials in Orlando was a softer moment for a candidate who spent much of …
Obama and Romney Finally Court Latinos – and Latin America
It’s a doleful time for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who leaves office in five months. Thanks to a bloody drug war and a limp economy that only now is starting to rebound, his party’s candidate is running third in …
In Search of the Changing American Voter
Mark Penn in this week’s issue of TIME, available online to subscribers:
The 137 million voters registered to go to the polls this November will not look like the 131 million who voted for President in 2008. And they are vastly different from the 96 million who voted the year Bill Clinton was re-elected. The U.S. has been changed by
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How Anxious Europeans Could Decide the U.S. Presidential Contest
The reactions of everyday Europeans to their predicament could determine the next U.S. President