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Notes Photo November 6, 2012

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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Notes 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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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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Notes 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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Notes Photo November 3, 2012

Campaign ’12: The Scream

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

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Notes 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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Notes 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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Notes Photo October 30, 2012

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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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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Notes Photo October 29, 2012

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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Notes 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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Notes 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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Notes 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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Notes Photo October 25, 2012

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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