Part 5 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie.
The candidate: Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota
The bio: Pawlenty’s life story formed the narrative …
Part 5 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie.
The candidate: Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota
The bio: Pawlenty’s life story formed the narrative …
Part 4 of our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio, Rob Portman and Mitch Daniels.
The candidate: Chris Christie, New Jersey Governor
The bio: A native Garden Stater, Christie grew up middle-class and …
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Part 3 in our ongoing series. Also see our analyses of Marco Rubio and Rob Portman.
The candidate: Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
The bio: The wonky two-term governor has an impeccable pedigree, having served high-level …
Part 2 in our ongoing series. You can read about Marco Rubio’s prospects here.
The candidate: Rob Portman, U.S. Senator from Ohio
The bio: Portman’s resume is illustrious and lengthy: Dartmouth and Michigan Law, followed by …
Having fended off his rivals to capture the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney now faces one of the critical moments of his candidacy: the selection of a running mate. Once a bureaucratic backwater, the role of the …
Almost exactly four years ago, Barack Obama made one of the worse gaffes of his political career. He told highfalutin donors at a San Francisco fundraiser that “bitter” voters in rural Pennsylvania “cling to guns or religion or …
Mitt Romney spent Sunday afternoon being spied on by his own press corps, and it was just about the best thing that could have happened to him. At a fundraiser in Palm Beach, Romney stood in a backyard with his wealthy …
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
“I was disappointed in listening to the President as he’s saying, ‘Oh Republicans are waging a war on women,’” Romney said at a Wednesday campaign rally in Hartford, an event painstakingly choreographed to flaunt …
Don’t believe what the national media tells you, says Dr. Richard Land, a leader with the Southern Baptist Convention, Mitt Romney doesn’t need to worry about his Mormon faith being a problem for evangelical voters at the voting booth.
The Latino vote will matter in the 2012 election. So say Republicans and Democrats, and even the cover of TIME magazine. But just how much it will matter is not clear at this point. Too many factors remain fluid. We don’t know …
Standing before a bank of cameras at a hastily called press conference in Gettysburg, Pa., on Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum spoke about miracles. As he often does, he spoke about his faith in God and about his family, …