Mary Kaye Huntsman surveyed the crowd of 60+ people spilled across Juliana Bergeron’s lawn on Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire. Her husband, Jon, had just finished his first event of the day and the couple lingered to chat …
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Campaigning in the Twitter Era
Sure, Newt Gingrich has been a center of media attention before, but a lot has changed since he was in office in the 1990s. And part of Gingrich’s problem is that he’s unused to modern media.
His troubles started in a …
With “Cheerful Persistence,” Newt Presses On
“The key to running a campaign of ideas is cheerful persistence,” Newt Gingrich told TIME’s Alex Altman by e-mail early Thursday. And that’s the strategy Gingrich has pursued, pressing on against strong headwinds with multiple campaign events in Iowa, from where Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler has been tweeting a stream of updates and …
Is Tim Pawlenty the Process-of-Elimination Candidate?
That’s part of the takeaway from Crowley’s magazine profile, hitting newsstands Friday:
Jon Huntsman’s Task in New Hampshire
Since returning from China, Jon Huntsman hasn’t done much beyond giving a commencement address, one interview and announcing that his campaign headquarters, should he run, would be based in Orlando, Florida. But he starts his …
Did Romney Lose Conservative Media?
The right’s reception of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Ann Arbor last week was pretty icy.
No Quarter for Gingrich, but Gleeful Sympathy from Democrats
“I made a mistake,” Newt Gingrich said Tuesday night, the latest in a series of mea culpas designed to resuscitate a campaign that conservative commentators believe to be on life support. After calling Paul Ryan to apologize for …
Newt Gingrich’s No Good, Very Bad Week
One of the raps against Newt Gingrich is that he lacks the discipline to sustain the rigors of a presidential campaign. And while an outburst or two was inevitable, it’s safe to say nobody expected the former House Speaker to …
Is Paul Ryan’s Plan the New Third Rail of GOP Politics?
Paul Ryan often says that he hopes to invert the notion that Social Security is the third rail of American politics. In Ryan’s ideal world, not tackling entitlement reform and deficit reduction would become the new third rail. I doubt the country has swung that way yet, but it seems that attacking Paul Ryan’s entitlement plan has become …
Rick Santorum: The GOP’s Most Undervalued Presidential Candidate
Updated: 6/6/2011, 9:20 a.m.
The “serious” Republican candidates for President, apparently, are Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman. But none of these boring establishment guys represent the fire-breathing, …
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Newt’s Romney-esque Problem on Health Care
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is quickly developing a serious health reform problem and his defense sounds just like Mitt Romney’s.
Q&A: Jon Huntsman
TIME talked to former ambassador to China and Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman for a profile running in the May 23, 2011, issue of the magazine. Lightly edited excerpts from three separate interviews with Huntsman follow: