RNC 2012: Why Obama/Biden Should Be Worried About Paul Ryan (in 5 Pictures)
He might have made up half of it and denied the rest but last night in Tampa, Ryan proved himself a force.
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The White Party National Convention
To become a majority party,the GOP would have to learn how to live with the rest of the country, not just employ them.
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One Thing That’s Been Bothering Me No End For Years Now Re: Campaign Marketing
While we're talking politics, authenticity and the grassroots....
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Ann Romney With the Sound Off
Trapped between reality and the storybook, and she knows it.
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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: Imagining The Worst Thing That Could Happen
It looks like a noise caused everyone to startle for an instant. That's not what makes it a dramatic news photo, though.
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RNC Podium in Multi-Screen: 11th Hour PR Mojo or Metaphor for Man You Can’t Piece Together?
Considering convention-by-video montage, here are two questions to keep in mind over the next three days.
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The New Yorker Romney – Ryan Homosexual Cover
Just forgetting what Urban Dictionary says about piggybacks, I love the car guys and the milkshake.
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Concern for New Orleans/Katrina II Really an RNC Scheduling Factor? (Photos by Brendan Hoffman)
After canceling Day 1 of the Republican Convention due to weather, and with Tropical Storm Isaac now gathering steam with a bead on New Orleans, might further postponements have to do with basic compassion? the re-deployment of security resources?
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Of Birthers and Banners
A week ago, I would have skipped over this as petty. But with the Romney campaign that they aren't going to win without rallying white men, be careful what you ask for.
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Warm Milk and Cookies in the Search for Romney — Lauren Fleishman for TIME
I could use your help with this one. There is a quality that keeps turning up in Romney images that I can’t quite articulate. Depending on the specific scene, we’re offered a man and his image of life in America that is particularly straight-laced, clean cut, innocent, moralistic, 1950-ish, Andy...
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About Those Pics of the "Lottery Winner" Dinners with the Presidential Candidates
Isn't what we're seeing here, in fact, mostly the product of brilliant marketing, the President (or Romney) engineering the perception of participation and populism.
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Ryan/Akin
What's so compelling about the photo is how it puts Ryan and Akin together in a collaborative mode.
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Akin Nothing if fil-A Controversy
Having chalked up his "legitimate rape" bomb to having misspoken, these photos suggest perhaps a different agenda.
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Some Akin Photos a Little Closer to Home
These photos of Todd Akin puts his views about women, rape and abortion into more personal terms.
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Ryan and Medicare: Willard at the Drawing Board
If you step back and look at it, aren't the photos saying that the addition of Ryan has put Romney in a situation where, as opposed to focusing on Obama, he's now got a whole lot more explaining (and number crunching) to do?
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