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Notes Photo October 10, 2016

Clinton – Trump II: From Our Debate Tweet Storm

Here's what caught our eye during the second Clinton - Trump debate, an ugly spectacle we hope we never witness again.

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Notes Photo October 6, 2016

Trump, a Girl and a Big Purple Hat: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs

Beyond the campaign photos, we found a few other pictures with a little more heart.

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Notes Photo October 5, 2016

On David Butow’s “Trump Country, Michigan”

In that territory between fact and myth, what the photo brings up is "the silent majority."

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Notes Photo September 27, 2016

Clinton/Trump I: Debate Pix We Latched On To

With Clinton-Trump I in the debate record book, here's a group of pictures that caught our eye.

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Notes Photo September 26, 2016

Girl Power, Sexism and that Viral Hillary Millennial Selfie Swarm

Where is the passion for Hillary, you ask? It’s there in the photo, plain as day.

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Notes Photo September 19, 2016

The Hillary Optics, Seven Weeks to Go

If Democrats have been hoping Election '16 comes down to a referendum on Trump, these photos challenge that notion.

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Salon Photo September 15, 2016

Photoville ’16 Salon: The Presidential Campaign Through New Eyes

In this live Reading the Pictures Salon from Photoville, we'll be discussing unconventional Election 2016 images with and by four key photographers.

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Notes Photo September 14, 2016

What’s Not Deplorable About “Deplorable Lives Matter”

OK, Trump supporters are sporting this phrase out of spite. But, what about the truth underlying all defensive gestures?

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Notes Photo September 12, 2016

Clinton “Healthers” Infect the Visual Newswire, Cough! Cough!

These pictures provide a clear example how the politics of destruction, and malignant rumors about Hillary Clinton's health, infected the visual news.

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Notes Photo September 7, 2016

Trump’s Last Supper

You could imagine the photo, as he performs this incongruous campaign pivot, is a twist on the expectation of new followers and their allegiance.

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Notes Photo August 26, 2016

What Do They Have to Lose? And Other Scenes from the Trump Debacle

With Trump all about amplifying stereotypes, Reuters has surfaced an image that primes the palette.

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Notes Photo August 19, 2016

Trump Campaign Ad Puts Border Militia on Par With US Enforcement Agencies

To frame these militia types as equivalent to U.S. law enforcement personnel is its own form of terror.

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Notes Photo August 12, 2016

Trump: Understanding the Meltdown

Donald Trump is coming apart and the largest factor in the calamity is his crippling narcissism.

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Notes Photo August 9, 2016

Far Right Pounces on 6 Month Old Hillary (Porch) Stumble

Hillary haters love to pounce on every visible sign that Mrs. Clinton has an actual human body.

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Notes Photo August 2, 2016

The One Bit of Substance in Those Risqué NY Post Melania Trump Photos

In viciously beating up on people while bringing ultimate shame on himself for doing it, this picture fits the Trump M.O. to a T.

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Notes Photo August 1, 2016

Trump vs the Khans in 3 Pairs of Pictures

If Trump's attack on the Khans is beyond offensive, the pictures it conjures are just as outrageous and hypocritical.

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Notes Photo July 29, 2016

Hugs and Air Kisses: 2 Conventions in 6 Pictures

If the Democratic and Republican conventions produced thousands of media images, we've boiled them down to three pair.

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Notes Photo July 27, 2016

Bernie Or Bust? What the Pix of Defiant Delegates Really Have to Say

As much as the media sees the Sanders delegates calling it quits, anger and disappointment is not an obvious indicator of future behavior.

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