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Campaign '12 Photo October 31, 2012

Obama and Sandy: Less is More

It's called leadership.

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Injury to Injury: After Ryan Soup Kitchen Deceit, Romney Stages Hurricane Relief Photo Op

The fraud is in the perceptual deceit -- and, in exactly the same mode as the soup kitchen lie, the exploitation of charity (and charitable organizations) to perpetuate the deception.

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Photo October 30, 2012

Subliminals: Romney's Ohio Jeep Ad Demonizes Obama?

Romney Team plays with the subliminals in late campaign attack ad.

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Pic of the Day: Romney's Hurricane Sandy Non-Political Political Event

It's Romney mixing campaigning with hurricane relief on a day that he pledged would exclude the former.

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Did Wire Services, Big Media Overlook Homeless in Sandy Photo Coverage?

One of the most troubling aspects of the Hurricane Sandy disaster in the onset, then onslaught of the storm is how little photo coverage there was of the homeless.

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Sandy 1: Political Contrast of the Day

Tracking images of Hurricane Sandy: Paul Ryan/Barack Obama edition

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Sandy: Mitt Gets It, Mitt Gets It

Bag tracks the visual coverage of Hurricane Sandy: Mitt Edition.

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Sandy and 9/11

More visual commentary on the Hurricane Sandy

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Disaster Focus Photo October 29, 2012

Sandy: Sin City

Mother Nature bears down on Atlantic City.

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Alan Chin Photo

Alan Chin in Nashua, New Hampshire: Pressing The Flesh

President Obama campaigns in New Hampshire, hugging babies and also adding exclamation points!

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Campaign '12 Photo October 28, 2012

I'm Mitt Romney and I Approve this Mourdock

Hingeing his campaign in the final weeks on a bipartisan vision while actively aligning himself with the Mourdocks -- not to mention, the Ryans, for that matter -- with a radical right anti-choice agenda is sorely hypocritical.

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Campaign '12 Photo October 27, 2012

Oh Doctor: Romney Instagram Etch-a-Sketches Campaign Photo

Talking presidential campaign optics, photoshop and desperation, of course we can talk about character, ethics and the compunction to mess with reality and digitally lie. If a wire photographer did such a thing, of course, he'd be headed for the abyss.

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Campaign '12 Photo October 26, 2012

Is Big Mo Evaporating, Even to Romney? Tell Tale Signs

it seems there have been a number of signs (literally) in the last 24 hours suggesting Team Romney is identifying itself as the underdog again

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Reflecting on Campaign '12 and other Matters of Impact

This presidential marathon is going to end very soon, hopefully leaving us to reflect on other matters of impact.

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BAGannouncements Photo October 25, 2012

BagNewsSalon: The Picture from Syria

"The Picture from Syria": An analysis of the media imagery of the Syrian civil war.

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Campaign '12 Photo

My Rock Star, My President

What's fascinating is that the celebrity versus substance argument, in Obama's case, is not an either-or proposition. The truth is: Obama is (also) a celebrity, a rock star, a cultural icon.

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Romney/Ryan: Overdone BFF Shtick Artfully Framed

Crowley is such a wonderful photographer. I wonder how he'd describe this. Perhaps as two unusually upright, upstanding, stand up guys having a straight up moment.

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Photo October 24, 2012

Painting the Deserts and Magic Castles: Romney's Mo

If Romney knocks off Obama, one thing we can expect is a radical, and probably oddly random shift in optics.

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