Four More Years: Obama Wins Re-election
Americans re-elected Barack Obama on Tuesday, affirming the goals of the President’s tumultuous first term and giving him a second.
Adam Sorensen
Adam Sorensen is an associate editor at TIME and the editor of Swampland. You can e-mail him at adam_sorensen [at] timeinc [dot] com.
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Morning Must Reads: Election Eve
- Obama leads in the polls.
- Republicans are left arguing the polls are wrong.
- How Bill Clinton became the Presidents closer.
October Jobs Numbers Are Big News … for the Next President
The October jobs report is big news for presidential politics. But not in the way you might think.
Sandy Sidelines Obama and Romney, but Campaign Spins On
It takes a mighty big storm to close schools, tunnels and nuclear power plants along the East Coast. But it takes a true meteorological monster to slow down presidential-campaign operations a week before Election Day.
Morning Must Reads: Sandy
- Hurricane Sandy complicates the presidential campaign’s best laid plans.
- Bill Clinton says losing the election would be worse.
- The National Weather Service is not messing around.
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Romnesia: The Comedic Stylings of Barack Obama
The latest addition to President Obama’s stump speech, debuted Friday in Virginia, is a running schtick about Romney’s Etch-a-Sketching ways.
Want to Know Who’s Spending to Influence the Election? You Can Do Something About It.
On Monday, the non-profit news outfit ProPublica published a scoop: Defend My Dividend, a self-described grassroots organization backed by two trade groups with a vested interest tax issues, has been running tens of thousands of dollars in TV ads targeted at seniors in south Florida. In the vast world of outside political spending, such …
Morning Must Reads: Digital
- Bloomberg starts a super PAC for centrists.
- A brief history of trickle-down government.
- An annotated interview with David Axelrod.
Romney’s 12 Million Jobs: How to Lie While Telling the Truth
Mitt Romney’s pledge to create 12 million jobs is a cardboard cutout of a campaign promise. It looks great, even bold, from one angle, but there’s really not much behind it. As this publication and others have explained, economic …
Morning Must Reads: Town Hall
- If Obama accomplished anything in the first debate, it was lowering expectations for the second.
- Halperin gets a hold of the campaigns’ debate agreement, which includes a clause stipulating that neither candidate will make the other guy promise stuff.
- Beware the town hall format: open floor space is the enemy.
Morning Must Reads: Real
- Obama works on a new debating style.
- Reconciling the state and national polls.
- The New York Times in Real ‘Merica.
Morning Must Reads: Swing
- Swing state polls find Romney gaining, but Obama maintains a narrow edge. List via:
Colorado: Romney 48%, Obama 47% (CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac)
Florida: Obama 47%, Romney 46% (NBC/WSJ/Marist)
Michigan: Obama 49%, Romney 42% (Detroit News)
Ohio: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (NBC/WSJ/Marist)
Virginia: Romney 48%, Obama 47% (
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