Des Moines, Iowa
Iowans are restless. Six weeks after the political world converged on Iowa for the Ames straw poll, the pace of the race toward the first-in-the-nation caucus has slackened. It’s not that candidates …
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Perry Stumbles at Florida GOP Forum as the Early Primary Debate Formula Wears Thin
The highlights of Thursday night’s Fox News/Google debate in Orlando, Florida, were predictable: Carefully aimed questions from the moderators set up the same back-and-forths between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Social Security, …
Breaking: Rick Perry Is “An American”
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Lucas Baiano, the guy who made Rick Perry’s new web video, was born and raised on the far side of the Canadian border. This doesn’t matter of course. Baiano is legal to work in the United States, and his dedication to the American political system is unquestioned. After volunteering for both …
How Super PACs Could Eclipse Official Campaigns in 2012
Presidential campaigns are so 2008, like boyfriend jeans or Tila Tequila. If you want to win the White House these days, “Super PACs” are the thing to have.
Is Romney Really a Lock in New Hampshire?
Summer is fast turning to fall here in New Hampshire, where I’m reporting a story for the print magazine, and it strikes me that there’s been curiously little talk of late about this state’s traditionally all-important primary. To be fair, in the past several months the Republican presidential race has revolved around other things: Iowa, …
What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night’s Tea Party Debate
TIME recaps every absurd minute of the GOP's prime-time food fight on CNN.
Rick Perry Gives Good Ads
Perhaps the only thing that beats a politician in chaps is that same politician walking through a sausage factory, all the while looking good and not at all phony. Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose long political career, is filled with high quality and effective television spots.
Sometimes he is the Marlboro Man. Sometimes he is right …
Social Security: Picture of a Ponzi Scheme or Not?
In 2008, I found myself in the Crystal City office of Doug Holtz-Eakin, the top economic adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain. When talk turned to Social Security, he said a version of what just about every serious fiscal analyst says these days: This is not that hard of a nut to crack. Sure there is a debate about just …
The Sisyphean Stimulus Sell: Why Obama’s Big Job Speech Will Likely Prove Unpersuasive
Governor Rick “Galileo” Perry declared at the Reagan Library last night that President Obama and his 2009 stimulus have “proven once and for all that government spending will not create one job.” Actually, in the last …
What You Missed While Not Watching Last Night’s Reagan Library Debate
0 minutes. Presidential debates come and go. But tonight’s GOP debate, the fourth in a series too numerous to bear, is a special treat. “We are all gathered under the wings of Air Force One,” says NBC’s Brian Williams, …
Tonight’s GOP Debate: Prepare for a Rick Perry Pile-On
Modern presidential primary debates tend to be silly, shallow, gimmicky and ultimately not very useful in judging how the candidates would perform in the oval office. But they can also change the course of the campaign. The …
Ron Paul Goes After Rick Perry
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In a new ad released on Tuesday, Ron Paul hammers fellow Texan and Republican presidential rival Rick Perry, calling Perry’s conservative credentials into doubt by juxtaposing the candidates’ past political allegiances.
For GOP Hopefuls, Labor Day Weekend Marks Start of 2012 Sprint
After a spring of embarrassing ephemera (remember Donald Trump’s painful presidential flirtation/publicity tour?) and a summer of high-octane campaign kickoffs (Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman) that haven’t sustained much …