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Campaign '12 Photo November 7, 2012

Your Turn: Winning Figures

This photo by Andrea Bruce really captured me, but I'm not exactly sure why.

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The Romney Brain Trust and the Length of the Shadows

Having taken a weak product and injected new life into it, it would be a mistake to see the shadow here as blanketing the operatives equally.

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Re-Elected

If it's easy for him to feel proud of his family, it seemed last night he allowed himself to feel proud of himself, too.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 6, 2012

Over the Top … And What's Next

Celebration is easy. On the other hand, the Republicans have some decisions to make.

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Waiting on Those Returns

True to the standard he set all campaign, this is a wonderful Instagram photo from Charles Dharapak from Romney election central in Boston.

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The Last Slideshow: The Brilliant Stephen Crowley's So Long to Mitt Romney

In the last photo of the last slideshow before signing off on the Romney campaign, Crowley makes a sweet gesture.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 5, 2012

"Victory" at a Florida Election Office

If the photo is joyful, let's remember these images instead as a testament to lost ground, rights undermined and almost undone, and a scene we should never, ever have to see again in America.

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Larger Outlines of a Super Storm

In terms of the larger questions just now being raised the about longer term status of the island, it's one of the most incisive photos of the Sandy coverage I've seen.

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Can Someone Please Let Me Out?! — Instagram, Twitter and Those Freezing People Trapped at Romney PA Rally Last Night

I can't say I'm sorry Campaign '12 is ending. At the same time, however, given the wonderful Instagram window I had, I am going to miss it.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 4, 2012

Barack, Mitt and Sandy: Final Exam (or: Why My Friend Saw Obama in this Photo with the Joint Chiefs)

Now my question is, how do you get from a typical three officer tarmac greeting at a military airfield we've seen a thousand times to the Joint Chiefs?

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Disaster Focus Photo November 3, 2012

Some Thoughts on the Powerful New York Magazine "City and the Storm" Cover

With NY still struggling to get on top of the fallout, this cover more than delivers the sense of arriving there.

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Campaign ’12: The Scream

What a wonderfully visceral example of what close cousins passion and pain are.

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Campaign '12 Photo November 2, 2012

I Had a Sad Thought about TIME's Reversible "Election Final" Cover

As a last word culminating an exhaustive and consuming multi-year process, Campaign '12 was ultimately about keeping score.

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It's Global Warming, Stupid

The election next Tuesday is feeling a lot less real than taste of climate change right now.

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Disaster Focus Photo November 1, 2012

Sandy as Preview

Many aftermath photos from Hurricane Sandy seem to game out a future in which America's resources diminish but the gap between haves and have-nots persists.

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