Biden Watch: Coming Out
With gay marriage on the table, this photo of Biden (and Lincoln) speaking out deserves second look.
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Reading the Pictures: McCain Puts Lid on Obama Defamer, Romney Doesn't
At this political level, the mark of an "A" game is to have the McCain precedent so embedded in your circuitry, you would identify the red flag when you heard it.
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Campaign ’12 Stereotypes: “Forward”-Thinking Women as "Stepford Voters"
Depicting women as enamored with the candidates for whom they vote is nothing new. If anything, though, what you're looking at is a policy swoon.
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Campaign 12 Optics: Stadium Wars
You really want to start a running meme with Obama comparing crowd size?
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Newsflash: Franco Still Dead and Obama Still Black
The real news here is that swift boat season is underway!
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No Bain, No Gain? — NYT Mag's Pro-Romney Cover/Story
New Yorker magazine asks a Bain Capital executive for his rationale on the validity of the 1%. The outcome is predictable. And, frankly, where would we be without a shoe to shine?
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Romney Watch: Ann's Coffee With the Nation in Her $1000 T-Shirt
Otherwise petty, the Romney's ability to relate to average American's makes Ann's designer t-shirt, as a symbol, more than just chicken feed.
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On Surprise Visit to Kabul to Wind Down War, Obama Has Better Toppings
On a day where Obama "won the internet" with smashing "victory" photos from Afghanistan, Romney gets "called out" for trying to leverage 9/11.
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Deconstructing Obama Campaign Launch Video. See a Pattern?
If Obama actually is up by 20 per cent in the polls with women, he's certainly not taken anything for granted.
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The Problem with Obama's bin Laden/Romney Attack Video – In Pictures
The problem with the Obama OBL Romney attack video is that it manages to confuse us with two different images of Obama, one the high-minded statesman and the other, a (yes, more Clinton-like) Machiavellian operator whose motivation in eliminating bin Laden was all too political.
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Obama '12: Head Scarves in the Rear View Mirror
This extended digression into the slime of Campaign '08 is inspired by the sight of President Obama warmly shaking the hands of a Muslim woman at the University of Colorado.
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Some NRA Convention Pics That Caught Our Eye
Certainly it's a shot the NRA has gotta love: girl power meets new fangled killing machine. And Ann Romney was firing well, too.
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O-Ba-Ma: White House 2012 Rocks Boca
Shades of Denver and Berlin, the "Buffet rule" blitz in the bizarro-land of Florida will serve, in so many single scenes, as a preview of coming attraction to be played and replayed from now until the last lever handle is pulled in November.
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Baby Bella and the Last Act of Santorum ’12
It seems any ability to tease out the emotional dynamics from the family's religious faith from hard (and bleak) political calculations in the ultimate decision is really not possible.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: The Body Men
Contrasting Barack and Reggie with Mitt and Garrett is one more way to see how the contest in November pits two men from drastically different cultural universes.
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Campaign '12: Obama Engages in the War on Women
The message of the photo is that Obama is not only standing up for women, but is pushing the point.
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Romney, Ryan at the Sandwich Shop, Part 1: "Sub Standard" Logic
I'm not sure how much Team Romney really thought through the symbolism here as he and Ryan spend the closing days of the Wisconsin primary working the fast food circuit.
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DMZ 2012
It's not like the photos of Obama at the Koren DMZ are particularly unique -- and that's exactly what accounts for their significance.
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