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...Tamed Russia Your selection of Russian President Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year was spot-on [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. Putin may yet become the single most important person of the 21st century. Russia has just begun to tap its natural resources and national potential. Putin's rise to power in 1999 is an astonishing story and was a stroke of genius by an otherwise embarrassing drunk of a President, Boris Yeltsin. Putin is that rare individual who came to govern Russia without the cancerous corruption that seems to plague East European politics. We have watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...wasn't going to air it ... except for the entire press corps, which he proceeded to do. This attempt to turn the other cheek while slapping his opponent was greeted, appropriately, with derisive laughter. In his spasm of attacks, though, Huckabee did raise an important point: "If a person becomes President by being dishonest," he said, "he won't start being honest when he gets there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Romneys | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...psychologically persuasive argument is simply having the largest group in the room, Bender says. "People want to be with a winner - the person who is most electable. 'Ooh, large groups, they're electable' - that's not a rare thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psyching Out the Caucuses | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

...Wednesday night appearance on the Tonight Show, even though Jay Leno's studios are located more than 1,500 miles away, as the crow flies. It's a strategy that takes sober account of the fact that Romney has a huge advantage in paid advertising on television, radio and person-to-person contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Final Push in Iowa | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

...deficiencies, Huckabee has something that no other candidate on the Republican side, save perhaps John McCain, has been able to muster this cycle. With the training of a former Baptist pastor, he has an uncanny ability to move an audience, and a real talent for the endless drudgery of person-to-person retail campaigning. It is a talent that he has also used to his advantage with the media...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Growing Pains | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

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