Weekly Standard : In a recent issue
Category U.S. | Thursday, June 24th, 2010Weekly Standard :In a recent issue, The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson wrote a very long (about 9,000 words) profile very popular in Indiana, even wonkish, Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. The piece was clearly designed to be a rumor-starter for possible Daniels’ 2012 run for the White House.
Profile springs from a long tradition of writing political magazine, where the scribes spend years out of the policy areas for potential sniffing black horse contenders for the next presidential race. Those who win gold star struck gold Beltway journalist colleagues have had the expectation that the future looked out and saw a rising star.