Ryan/Romney One Week Out: Anchors A Weigh
Given the absence of military experience and the fact that Romney and Ryan are far prettier than they are foreboding, the phallic nature of the image setting up a potency that the team not only can't match, but isn't even about.
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Georgetown Revisited: Ryan Looks to the Heavens
What's interesting about the lobbying for Ryan for the second slot has been the need and desire to graft a real political philosophy onto the otherwise shape-shifting Romney.
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Tea Party Aesthetics and the 2012 Color Wheel
Looking at the color of politics (and the politics of color) Tea Party insurgents this season have been swimming in bright red.
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Video War: Romney Still Suffering Trump, Tarmac FAIL
It's easy to say that such slip ups are inevitable, and someone might respond to seeing this one that way. The point is, though, that this visual doesn't represent "one instance" so much as it stands for a pattern.
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Newsweek's Wimp Romney Cover
Wimp: a weak, cowardly, or ineffectual person — Websters Wimp: a weak, ineffectual, timid person. — Dictionary.com If you’re going to take as large and as low a shot as Newsweek does, you’d better be sure that your personality description counts for as much or more as your audacity....
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The Picture of Romney in London? Ouch.
Even if a situation is awkward or uncomfortable, an effective politician knows how to fake it. That's just Politics 101. Instead, Romney's day -- by his own incompetence -- went from bad to much worse.
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Kiss Cam: A Metaphor
During Monday's Olympic basketball game in D.C., Obama gets a test of passion he wasn't bargaining for.
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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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Obama: Re-birth of the Cool
Given his wonky governing style, it still seems like a surprise when the charismatic and fired-up Obama comes charging out.
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Businessweek Cover: The Mormon Empire, Burger King and Romney the Almighty
To the extent Romney and Bain Capital donated $2 million worth of Burger King stock to the Mormon Church, this almost doubles as a "church and treasury" warning poster.
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A Scanner Moment Just Waiting To Happen: Romney in Retail Land
As out of touch as he is with Main Street, the picture draws Mitt dangerously close to George H. W. Bush territory.
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Facing an Unfriendly Crowd Vs. Creating One: Romney at the NAACP
There's quite a difference between facing an unfriendly crowd and creating one. An analysis of the audience response to Mitt Romney at the NAACP national convention.
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Obama Finally Has the Beer Thing Down
I mean, if you didn't know he was the President of the United States....
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Fired Up; Ready to Go (Buy Another One)
Suggests how hard it is to get fired up for Romney.
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White House: Fresh Salsa
My dollar bet says that, between now and November, the White House Photo-of-the-Day largely morphs into an archive documenting how Team Obama eeked out a second term by way of the Rovian micro-targeting strategy.
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But Can He Bake A Cherry Pie?
What's going on here, though, is not just a nostalgia play associating Mitt to simpler times.
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