In '08, We Could See Russia. This Year? I See London, I See France.
I think it's completely fair to say that this girl in Fairfield (the Romney campaign making late pitch to citizens coming of voting age around 2023) has caught the campaign with its pants down.
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The Priceless Privilege: Times Square Kiss and Sexual Assault
The real challenge here then is not so much to critique the blind sexism of an earlier moment in our history, however much it might be mischaracterized as a golden past, but to question why we continue to refuse to see what might now be before our eyes.
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Mitt the Real Person
I don't want to preclude the explanation that Romney is tapping into a deeper place in himself. Let's not forget, though, how much Romney's real core seems to involve sussing out what's most expedient and then being that.
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New Yorker's "Empty Chair" Cover: Nobama … But Also More Than One Romney
Well, you can't say Obama didn't bring this upon himself. What's interesting, though, is how this cover still speaks to the overarching question of the campaign, which is: who is Romney?
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Your Turn: Jenga
It’s the last photo of Romney before he came on stage to debate Obama in Denver. Photographers were ushered into the hold room to witness the scene. The photo got all kind of exposure yesterday. I’m wondering what its saying. UPDATE: Just added a second view: (photo: charlesdharapak/Instagram –...
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Campaign ’12 in the Social Networking Age: Photo Fanaticism
Okay, Campaign ’12 personal photography has just crossed into the realm of the fetishistic. Pretty in Pink? (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. caption: A debate spectator take photos with a smartphone of first lady Michelle Obama’s chair prior to the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012...
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The Optics of the First Romney – Obama Debate: Obama's Grin, and Paying For It
What with all the instances where Obama seemed to agree with Romney, or let him off the hook, I think what we were seeing in Obama was actually an obsequiousness.
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Obama – Romney: The Heavyweight Championship of the World
Far in excess of just a democratic exercise, the American presidential election process now is as much an extension of the sports or entertainment industry.
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Romney's Pre-Debate Rally: Anxious Last Gasp?
Seriously though, you would expect a lot of excitement from this crowd in Romney's last appearance before the first debate, but there is something unsettling, anxious, unnerving.
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MITT!/Women/MITT!
As we continue to sift through images for our Salon at Columbia on the 10th, this is one we've been thinking about.
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