influence perception--and how politicians and the press could take advantage of these findings--NEWSWEEK's Andrew Romano spoke to Caruso. Excerpts: How did the study actually work? Essentially we were interested in whether political
Last week, in his Absurdly Premature 2012 Watch Column , erstwhile Stumper Andrew Romano mused about the DNC's treatment of Tim Pawlenty, who is steadily becoming target No. 1 for their oppo researchers. Now it
Written by 2008 NEWSWEEK campaign blogger Andrew ( Stumper ) Romano, Absurdly Premature 2012 Watch is a weekly column that (in lieu of psychiatric treatment) indulges our collective presidential-election fixation ... even though the next presidential election is still, ahem, three years away.
Republican George Pataki in 1994 to the first of three terms as governor, but it still went for Bill Clinton in 1996. (As Andrew Romano points out , Christie Whitman's contemporaneous victory in neighboring New Jersey did not mean that national Democrats
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Movies, especially unusual movies, tend to take on lives of their own. Spike Jonze is learning this the hard way. Last month the innovative director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation met a man on a subway platform in New York City. Both were about the same age—Jonze is 39—and both were waiting for the F train. Jonze and the man hit it off. After a few minutes, however, the conversation slowed to a halt, as conversations with strangers typically do. Jonze and the man stood in silence for a moment. And then, unprompted, the man offered a bit of information about himself. "You know what movie I can't wait to see?" he asked. "Where the Wild Things Are."
Last week, Ramin Setoodeh and I had the honor of interviewing Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers at Mr. Sendak’s house in Connecticut. It was the only time the creative team behind Where the Wild Things Are would be getting together to speak to the press. This morning, Newsweek posted the magazine version of our exclusive conversation, which you can read here . We think it’s the definitive WtWTA interview.
Today in "Breaking News That's Been, Like, Totally Obvious for Months Already": Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the former veep hopeful and recovering mullet victim , wants to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Now, maybe it was the steady stream of television appearances that tipped us off. Or the increased presence at out-of-state GOP fundraisers . Or even the sleek new haircut . But for some reason, when we read over at Politico that T-Paw "has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants," we weren't exactly surprised.
OK, Katie. I hear what you're saying . And in theory, I agree. The current law in Massachusetts─the one that prevents a sitting governor from filling a Senate vacancy with an interim appointment before the special election ─ is, in fact, an "affront to democracy." Like the rest of us, Massachusettans deserve to be fully represented in Congress at all times, even if the dominant political party feels threatened. But just because the law is stupid doesn't mean it's illegitimate. Fact is, the law is the law. If Bay State Dems were so worried about Romney appointing a Republican, perhaps they should've passed a bill mandating that the executive install a interim legislator of the same political party as the one who preceded him (assuming that's possible; if not, never mind). But now they're stuck with the bed they made, and refusing to lie in it by changing the law inescapably smacks of partisan hypocrisy.