Your Turn: Jenga
It’s the last photo of Romney before he came on stage to debate Obama in Denver. Photographers were ushered into the hold room to witness the scene. The photo got all kind of exposure yesterday. I’m wondering what its saying. UPDATE: Just added a second view: (photo: charlesdharapak/Instagram –...
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Campaign ’12 in the Social Networking Age: Photo Fanaticism
Okay, Campaign ’12 personal photography has just crossed into the realm of the fetishistic. Pretty in Pink? (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. caption: A debate spectator take photos with a smartphone of first lady Michelle Obama’s chair prior to the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012...
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The Optics of the First Romney – Obama Debate: Obama's Grin, and Paying For It
What with all the instances where Obama seemed to agree with Romney, or let him off the hook, I think what we were seeing in Obama was actually an obsequiousness.
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Obama – Romney: The Heavyweight Championship of the World
Far in excess of just a democratic exercise, the American presidential election process now is as much an extension of the sports or entertainment industry.
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Romney's Pre-Debate Rally: Anxious Last Gasp?
Seriously though, you would expect a lot of excitement from this crowd in Romney's last appearance before the first debate, but there is something unsettling, anxious, unnerving.
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MITT!/Women/MITT!
As we continue to sift through images for our Salon at Columbia on the 10th, this is one we've been thinking about.
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Setting the Table for Wednesday: The Romney – Kennedy Debate
With all the pressure on Romney on Wednesday, I'm interested to see how much he can keep his tone and his mood in check.
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I Love Ann
While the comments in the TIME thread do battle over Romney's missionary work during the Vietnam War, I'm more interested in the meaning and effect of this photo emerging now.
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Through the Campaign ’12 Window: Obama, Women and the General Assembly
The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons. from: Obama’s speech to the General Assembly, September 25, 2012 If...
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Obama on The View, Romney's Whoopi Anxiety and the State-of-the-Art White House Pop Culture Machine
When people look back and ask how Obama defeated Romney, one of the more unsung reasons will be pop culture. Because Obama has done the TV circuit so many time, his appearance on ABC’s The View this week actually had to touted as “the President and the First Lady’s...
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Trappings of the Office: "Third Man" in the Campaign, and in Last Night's Dueling CBS Interviews
Looks like the the C.I.C. might be covering his flank a bit with this one, the fresh Flickr photo likely a response to the uptick in vulnerability lately on Libya, Egypt and foreign policy. Taken on August 1st and posted Friday, that’s an impressive landing party with all the...
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More "Shoot First, Aim Later": National Review's Obama Abortion Cover
The fact there are people who wouldn't figure out this was photoshopped is the least of the problem here.
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William Randolph Romney: More Dharapak Snaps from Fundraising Land
“Property up there is, I’m sure, very, very expensive. And we got to her driveway — it was at least a mile long, up and up, it’s like, Oh my goodness, how in the world?” Romney said. “And then we came to the home, and it was like San...
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F-ing With Your Mind: What Makes the Austin "Chair Lynching" so Brilliantly Hateful
I posted this on the Bag’s Facebook page yesterday not knowing how much the discussion and disturbance surrounding it would grow. As not just an analyst of visual politics but having done my doctoral dissertation on the psychological properties of effective metaphors, I wanted to explain in a simple...
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Stephen Crowley’s Ann Romney Diptych
What's fascinating about Ann, especially, is how much she's become more enigmatic than less.
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Fundraiser Access: Ask and You Shall Receive
So, yesterday Bag offered its latest lamentation regarding fundraising secrecy — with a few choice example of Instagramers knocking at the door. Then, what do you know. Not twelve hours later, MoJo releases the secret Romney fundraiser tapes without the faces blacked out, and Romney does a couple fundraisers...
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MoJo's Secret Mitt Videos: Pushing Fundraising Transparency in the Age of "Macaca Meets Micro Cam"
If you’ve been a long-standing reader, you know I’m continually on the lookout for images, purloined or otherwise, from these regular campaign shakedowns. (The photo below, from a post I did during the 2010 mid-terms, was taken by a Roll Call photog capturing Speaker Boehner in donor collection mode...
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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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