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Campaign '12 Photo August 31, 2012

RNC: The (Dark) Morning After — With Hat Tip to Instagram

These three Instagram shots from this morning use the weather and security to capture the unsettled official launch of the Romney campaign.

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The Real Romney Keynote: Eastwood Renders the Invisible Invisible

People can fault Eastwood for his age or Romney's handlers over vetting, but marshaling his still formidable creative and directorial instincts, Clint merely (if unintentionally) blew the visual lid off the charade.

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Campaign '12 Photo August 30, 2012

Romney RNC Acceptance Speech: Not of This Planet

If there was one line and one moment that set off Mitt Romney and the GOP last night, it was this one.

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Romney's Pizza Depression

Just hanging out watching Condi with the babysitter.

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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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Campaign '12 Photo August 29, 2012

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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Campaign '12 Photo August 28, 2012

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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Campaign '12 Photo August 27, 2012

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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Campaign '12 Photo August 26, 2012

Milking Neil Armstrong

The obvious political icon of the day? Neil Armstrong.

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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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Culture Focus Photo August 24, 2012

Instagram and Murder

There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media the images were too immediate, too numb,...

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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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Campaign '12 Photo August 23, 2012

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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