Waiting on Those Returns
True to the standard he set all campaign, this is a wonderful Instagram photo from Charles Dharapak from Romney election central in Boston.
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The Last Slideshow: The Brilliant Stephen Crowley's So Long to Mitt Romney
In the last photo of the last slideshow before signing off on the Romney campaign, Crowley makes a sweet gesture.
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"Victory" at a Florida Election Office
If the photo is joyful, let's remember these images instead as a testament to lost ground, rights undermined and almost undone, and a scene we should never, ever have to see again in America.
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Can Someone Please Let Me Out?! — Instagram, Twitter and Those Freezing People Trapped at Romney PA Rally Last Night
I can't say I'm sorry Campaign '12 is ending. At the same time, however, given the wonderful Instagram window I had, I am going to miss it.
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Barack, Mitt and Sandy: Final Exam (or: Why My Friend Saw Obama in this Photo with the Joint Chiefs)
Now my question is, how do you get from a typical three officer tarmac greeting at a military airfield we've seen a thousand times to the Joint Chiefs?
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Campaign ’12: The Scream
What a wonderfully visceral example of what close cousins passion and pain are.
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I Had a Sad Thought about TIME's Reversible "Election Final" Cover
As a last word culminating an exhaustive and consuming multi-year process, Campaign '12 was ultimately about keeping score.
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Injury to Injury: After Ryan Soup Kitchen Deceit, Romney Stages Hurricane Relief Photo Op
The fraud is in the perceptual deceit -- and, in exactly the same mode as the soup kitchen lie, the exploitation of charity (and charitable organizations) to perpetuate the deception.
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Pic of the Day: Romney's Hurricane Sandy Non-Political Political Event
It's Romney mixing campaigning with hurricane relief on a day that he pledged would exclude the former.
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Sandy 1: Political Contrast of the Day
Tracking images of Hurricane Sandy: Paul Ryan/Barack Obama edition
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Sandy: Mitt Gets It, Mitt Gets It
Bag tracks the visual coverage of Hurricane Sandy: Mitt Edition.
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Alan Chin in Nashua, New Hampshire: Pressing The Flesh
President Obama campaigns in New Hampshire, hugging babies and also adding exclamation points!
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I'm Mitt Romney and I Approve this Mourdock
Hingeing his campaign in the final weeks on a bipartisan vision while actively aligning himself with the Mourdocks -- not to mention, the Ryans, for that matter -- with a radical right anti-choice agenda is sorely hypocritical.
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Oh Doctor: Romney Instagram Etch-a-Sketches Campaign Photo
Talking presidential campaign optics, photoshop and desperation, of course we can talk about character, ethics and the compunction to mess with reality and digitally lie. If a wire photographer did such a thing, of course, he'd be headed for the abyss.
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Is Big Mo Evaporating, Even to Romney? Tell Tale Signs
it seems there have been a number of signs (literally) in the last 24 hours suggesting Team Romney is identifying itself as the underdog again
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Reflecting on Campaign '12 and other Matters of Impact
This presidential marathon is going to end very soon, hopefully leaving us to reflect on other matters of impact.
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My Rock Star, My President
What's fascinating is that the celebrity versus substance argument, in Obama's case, is not an either-or proposition. The truth is: Obama is (also) a celebrity, a rock star, a cultural icon.
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