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...past week has showcased our team at its best. Michael Scherer, a former correspondent for Salon.com penned a dispatch on Governor Mike Huckabee for this week's issue, while the indefatigable Jay Newton-Small, with the Obama campaign, posted numerous scoops on Swampland. Assistant managing editor Michael Duffy brilliantly analyzed the results out of Iowa and New Hampshire on TIME.com The magazine cover story was written by editors-at-large Nancy Gibbs, who has written more than 100 TIME covers, and David Von Drehle, who came to us from the Washington Post and wrote and reported...
...reported by Ana Marie Cox, Michael Scherer, Jay Newton-Small, Amy Sullivan and Karen Tumulty/Iowa and James Carney, Gilbert Cruz, Michael Duffy and Mark Halperin/New Hampshire
...with reporting by Karen Tumulty and Jay Newton-Small/Nashua
What a nice guy! Mitt Romney is all humble and reasonable, a human goose-down comforter lulling the Iowans who have come to hear him at a classic heartland café in downtown Newton on a Saturday morning. "I don't think anybody votes for yesterday," he says, streaming balm. "We vote for tomorrow. Elections are about the future." Romney's version of the future sounds as if he's pickpocketed the polling data used by Democrats roaming the cornfields, with an occasional Republican nod to lower taxes and a strong defense. He talks about the need for an alternative...
...After Romney's ethereal performance in Newton, I drove to Indianola, where Huckabee was holding a clown-car event, trying to stuff hundreds of supporters and dozens of camera crews into an upstairs room meant to hold about 20. Huckabee had lost control of his Christian calm and spent most of his stump speech railing against Romney. This was pretty shocking for a primary, where attacks tend to be muffled because the losers eventually support the winner. Huckabee was particularly miffed by Romney's ad about the pardons. He told the crowd the story of one pardon - an Iraq...