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Breaking the Deadlock

Whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins the election on Tuesday, on Wednesday he will face the same urgent challenge: how to stop the U.S. from falling off the...

Oh, No! We're Gonna Win!

Seventy-two hours after the first presidential debate, in which it's universally recognized that Mitt Romney cleaned Barack Obama's clock, I started to panic...

Briefing

'The ocean is in the road.' 1. DAVID ARNOLD, resident of Long Branch, N.J., commenting on the surge of water from Hurricane Sandy. Coastal areas saw massive...

Town And Country

Barack Obama speaks in a different dialect when he stops in Ohio, which seems to be every other day now. Even when delivering his basic stump speech, he will aim...

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Photo Essays

Growing Up Romney: Mitt’s Early Years

The childhood narratives that inform the public’s perception of so many political figures — Abe Lincoln’s log cabin; George Washington’s cherry tree; JFK’s...

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Time.com Specials

Mitt Romney's Top 10 Gaffes

The 2008 presidential campaign is just a few months old, but Republican fundraising leader Mitt Romney has already made a career's worth of memorable media...

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The Man We Never Saw

A five-minute video of Mitt Romney losing his temper has lit up the Internet. The clip, excerpted from an off-air conversation with an Iowa radio host in 2007, has been viewed...