F.A.Q.: Why is undisputed G.O.P. front-runner Mitt Romney making attack ads about himself?:
A conversation with Salon political writer Steve Kornacki about how Mitt Romney's primary might affect his general.
Bio: Josh Benson is a co-founder and co-editor of Capital. He was previously an editor and reporter at The New York Observer, and he wrote about New Jersey for The New York Times.
Steve Kornacki: Within the context of a G.O.P. primary campaign, he's been doing what he can to inoculate himself against what the Dems will do to him in the fall. So to me, this slip-up today—him saying that he doesn't care about the "very poor," in an effort to convey just how much he cares about the people in the middle, is about Mitt being hyper-aware of his vulnerability and trying too hard, and too artlessly, to overcome it. More
Posted on February 1st, 2012 1:02pm
Appearing on NBC after President Obama's State of the Union address, Mitt Romney was put in the position of defending himself, in a sense, against Michael Bloomberg. More
Posted on January 24th, 2012 11:49pm
