Alter: A Rising Star, Out of the Blue - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com

Alter: A Rising Star, Out of the Blue - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com: "Even though he did surprisingly well in a recent Tennessee straw poll, Romney has been viewed as strictly second-tier.

Until now. With the help of forces ranging from the impeccably conservative Heritage Foundation to Ted Kennedy, Romney drafted a health-care plan for his state that passed the overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature last week almost unanimously."