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ABC reports that Obama has asked Rahm Emanuel to be his chief-of-staff. No word if Emanuel will accept. As I type this I’m in a bus heading for Obama’s home where we are told he’ll spend the morning taking his girls to school and running errands. And so begins the first day of in the life of Obama-president-elect.
And just to close the circle, here is my final dispatch from the campaign trail.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.
