Obama's decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty well. Its massive, high-rise headquarters in Chicago achieves a balance between 2008’s casual dorm room (there’s a ping pong table and homemade signage) and 2012’s systematized Death Star (work stations sub-divided as ever more employees are added). The place hums from early morning until late at night.
Demographics will doom Republicans in the out years, Democrats like to say. A coalition of Black and Latino voters along with the socially moderate youth bloc is quickly becoming the left’s safety net, even in tight elections. But as the Washington Post reported Friday, there’s a problem:
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
A gallery of winners (and losers) from the vice presidential vetting process through the years.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
For presidential candidates, posing with supporters’ babies is a rite of passage as important as eating deep-fried state fair food or enduring endless debates. TIME celebrates this hallowed tradition with 34 photos of infants in varying states of joy, indifference and abject terror on the campaign trail in 2012.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
