The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012) Audiobook (Free)

The fourth and final eBook in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012 series once more provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute account from the race for the presidency. The End of the Range follows President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign teams move all-in to earn in the essential final weeks from the 2012 election.

From Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video to Clint Eastwood’s speech to a clear seat, the 2012 presidential campaign did not absence for memorable occasions. In about The End of the Collection: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 times that made a decision the election: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012) THE FINISH of the Line, POLITICO senior White colored Home reporter Glenn Thrush and senior politics reporter Jonathan Martin chronicle every hairpin turn in a competition that defied the predictions of pundits and prognosticators.

Although some political observers considered Barack Obama’s reelection far from a sure thing, the president and his team continued to be resolute within their belief that they might prevail. In Boston, Mitt Romney’s advisers were just like confident that their man was headed for the smashing victory. In the end, only one of these views will be validated by occasions. The outcome of this election was under no circumstances foreordained, however, and would eventually be dependant on two applicants, three debates, and a thousand small but crucial strategic decisions.

With an eye toward writing a “first draft of history,” Thrush and Martin survey for the intense internal debates over ad strategy that defined the parameters of the fall campaign-including an essential late-May decision from the Obama campaign that may have tipped the scales in the president’s favor. They offer a behind-the-scenes go through the applicants’ debate preparation sessions, and they reveal why Romney’s marketing campaign was so assured they were going to win.

The action climaxes on election night, as the opposing camps huddle nervously in their hotel suites to await the verdict from the voters. THE FINISH of the Range reveals for the very first time what the Obama brain trust really thought about the agonizingly long wait for Romney’s recognized concession-and what happened after Obama put calling to his ear and heard what “Hello, Mr. Leader, it’s Mitt Romney.”

Nobody could have predicted all of the twists and changes of the 2012 election-and no-one was better equipped to chronicle them compared to the POLITICO group. The End from the Line is certainly frontline campaign reporting at its finest, meticulously reported and compulsively readable.