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2012: The political annus horribilis

December 28, 2012 07:15
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Oh what a year it was! Barely had the nation’s celebratory New Year’s hangover subsided when another headache hit the public consciousness: the Iowa caucuses, on Jan. 3, signaling the official start of the presidential campaign. It kicked off a year of finger pointing, backbiting, mudslinging and name-calling.
November 28, 2012 13:23
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Obama and Romney will meet for lunch tomorrow

Obama and Romney are doing lunch at the White House. The meeting is private.
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US President Barack Obama (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
"There will be no press coverage of the meeting."
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Ron Barber wins Gabby Giffords' Arizona seat in narrow election victory

November 17, 2012 17:51
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Barber won a special election needed after Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at Giffords public appearance on Jan. 8, 2011.

Haley Barbour: 'Proctology exam' needed for GOP post-election (VIDEO)

November 15, 2012 18:07
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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the GOP needs a "proctology exam" to figure out what went wrong in the 2012 election.
November 13, 2012 07:18
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Highway 2012: The end of the road

The campaign — and this blog — come to a successful close.
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Diverse support: A crowd at a rally for Barack Obama Des Moines, Iowa, listens intently to the president the day before Election Day. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
IOWA CITY — My car has traveled more than 50,000 miles since January, and my psyche has journeyed even farther. But after last Tuesday, I have changed my tune.
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Obama wins Florida, 4 days after re-election

November 10, 2012 14:25
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The state of Florida has officially been called for President Barack Obama, four days after he won the national election.
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Spider in voting machine entangles Massachusetts town election

A spider web was found in the Rehoboth, Massachusetts, voting machine after it stopped reading ballots.
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A spider is responsible for jamming up the voting machine in a small Massachusetts town, forcing staff to count ballots by hand. (Prakesh Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)
An itsy bitsy spider is to blame for jamming up a voting machine in Massachusetts on Election Day.
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Murray Energy lays off miners over Obama's 'war on coal'

November 9, 2012 17:27
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The nation's largest privately-owned coal company lays off more than 150 workers following the president's reelection, citing Barack Obama's "war on coal."
November 9, 2012 15:13
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US election: The (Grand Old) Party’s over

Analysis: The election gives a resounding ‘no’ to the politics of anger and division.
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A man on a friend's shoulders holds up a sign saying "We have overcome" — a play on a popular civil rights tune — at the Barack Obama victory rally in Chicago. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/AFP/Getty Images)
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Barely had the confetti stopped swirling on Election Night when the recriminations began. The howls of anger and pain from the political right almost drowned out the roars of jubilation from relieved and excited liberals. The challenger, Mitt Romney, was not conservative enough, they fumed. No, he was too conservative. It was his constant policy ballet that doomed his candidacy. No, Romney was too entrenched in unpopular positions to appeal to a wide enough swath of the public.
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