Businessweek and the Obama Age Progression Cover
Taken as a metaphor for the problems facing his administration, will the next four years be a greater challenge than those facing Obama in his first term?
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Stacie Laughton: One of Many Firsts
New Hampshire brings yet another first their state politics.
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The Romney Brain Trust and the Length of the Shadows
Having taken a weak product and injected new life into it, it would be a mistake to see the shadow here as blanketing the operatives equally.
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The Republican Spring (and More on "the Smirk")
Call it the Week of Long Knives, eating your own, or Republican Spring...whichever way you slice it, Mitt Romney has had a horrible week and GOP stalwarts have been liberated from party discipline.
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama: The "Empty Chair" in Charlotte Last Night
In staging that empty space between the First Lady and the Vice President, the Obama election team visually managed the expectations of everyone in the hall and watching on TV. It was subtle and brilliant. It was a dig at the republican schtick and it succeeded where Eastwood's...
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Straining the Tea out of the Party and Vanquishing the Also-Rans (Or, Sarah Palin's a Stripper in Tampa)
In what could be a quick edition of "where are they now," the question is how did the Romney camp and the party establishment appease the Tea Party, Michele Bachmann, Hermann Cain, Ron Paul?
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Obama the Subservient Revisited
Given Mitt Romney's disastrous foreign tour at the start of the Olympics, photos from Obama's foreign visits feel like a visual walk in the park. It's noticeable that the right has yet to trot out photos of Obama's deference to the diplomatic moment in their defense of Mitt Romney's...
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Retail Revisited: Romney, Ryan at the Sandwich Shop
Did Romney and Ryan seal the deal last Spring while working the counter before the Wisconsin Primary? In this post from April 4th, we considered both the chemistry and the retail politics of Romney-Ryan.
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Gravitas Revisited: When Obama Became Acting President
Looking back at Campaign '08, photo after photo showed Obama looking presidential, even inevitable in the contest with McCain. Today, despite the fact the country is still in that ditch, the pictures don't necessary support the attack line that Obama is failing at the job.
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Palin Re-Re-Revisited: Proud to be Trash (But Not Trashed)
If the Ryan VP pick satisfied the party's intellectual base, should the GOP ignore the queen of its emotional base by refusing to have her speak at the upcoming RNC convention? Will she comply or will she speak to her supporters in a Tampa parking lot? In a "base-rallying"...
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Campaign Narratives Revisited: GOP "Handicapped"
We’re thinking now that the early campaign narrative remains pretty much intact: Obama vs. the Seven Dwarfs.
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"Team of Rivals" Revisited: Hillary for Joe
Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan for Vice President takes us down memory lane to revisit the so-called Hillary for Joe swap that became the cornerstone of Obama's "Team of Rivals" cabinet.
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Obama Budget Politics Revisited: Target Ryan
This photo serves as a major cautionary note and a reminder to the Romney campaign of the high risk involved in casting their lot with the Ryan plan. It's hard to believe the President isn't looking forward to the Fall having already thrashed the plan with the Congressman sitting...
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"Disappeared" Olympic 7/7 Tribute: NBC Perpetuates Myth Terror Only Happens to Americans
NBC perpetuated the myth that terror only happened to Americans. That we can't identify or relate to the loss experienced by other peoples, other nations. That we don't look or feel like everyone else.
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Campaign 2012: So What’s With All the Slogans?
The question is: what's with the rapid cycling of slogans on backdrops and posters in the presidential campaign?
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TIME Covers: Asked and Answered
The top cover is next week’s U.S. Edition. The one below will appear next week in international markets. I suppose they did this on purpose: Resolve the question premised on one cover with an answer posed on another.
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Egypt's Muslim Sisterhood: How We See Them or How They See Themselves?
Veiled and separate, the women depicted in this Time photo essay are political players who note their inequality even while participating in it. Is it simply a Western view or are these photographs slightly subversive?
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