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Thirty-four times that chosen the election. The fourth and final installment in POLITICO's Playbook 2012 series once again provides an unprecedented minute-by-minute profile of the race for the presidency. The End of the Range follows Leader Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney as their campaign clubs go all-in to earn in the critical final weeks of the 2012 election. From Mitt Romney's "47 percent" video to Clint Eastwood's talk to an empty couch, the 2012 presidential campaign did not shortage for memorable moments. In The End of the Range, POLITICO senior White House reporter Glenn Thrush and senior political reporter Jonathan Martin chronicle every hairpin submit a race that defied the predictions of pundits and prognosticators. While some political observers considered Barack Obama's reelection definately not a sure thing, the president and his team remained resolute in their idea that they might prevail. In Boston, Mitt Romney's advisers were as self-assured that their man was going for a smashing win. In the end, only one of those views would be validated by situations. The outcome of the election was never foreordained, however, and would ultimately be dependant on two individuals, three debates, and one thousand small but critical strategic decisions. With an eyes toward writing a "first draft of history", Thrush and Martin statement on the intense inner debates over advertising strategy that described the guidelines of the land campaign - including an essential late-May decision by the Obama campaign which may have tipped the scales in the president's favour. They provide a behind-the-scenes go through the candidates' debate preparation sessions, and they reveal why Romney's campaign was so self-assured they were heading to earn. The action climaxes on election night, as the opposing camps huddle nervously in their hotel suites to await the verdict of the voters. The End of the Range shows for the very first time the actual Obama brain trust really considered the agonizingly long await Romney's formal concession - and what took place after Obama put calling to his ear canal and heard what "Hello, Mr. Leader, it's Mitt Romney." No one could have predicted all the twists and turns of the 2012 election - and nobody was better prepared to chronicle them than the POLITICO team. The End of the Range is frontline campaign confirming at its finest, meticulously reported and compulsively listenable.
