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A series of audiobooks on the 2012 presidential election, Politico's Playbook 2012 provides an unprecedented real-time accounts of the competition for the White House. The 3rd edition, Obama's Last Stand, employs the reelection advertising campaign of Leader Barack Obama as it struggles to discover a winning formulation in a politics surroundings that has transformed dramatically since his history-making triumph in 2008. Though battered and bruised after almost four years in office, Barack Obama remains the most competitive player on the field in American politics today. In Obama's Last Stand, Politico White House correspondent Glenn Thrush chronicles the work of the leader and his team to secure a second term when confronted with a established opposition, unfavorable financial headwinds, and some missteps by his own team. This is a revealing family portrait of the leader at the most precarious second in his politics life, with insights and anecdotes attracted directly from the notebook of 1 of the very most perceptive reporters in America. The trash-talking schoolyard sportsman in Obama is very much indeed in evidence, especially when he speaks caustically about his Republican rivals, like the man he believes is trying to steal his legacy, Mitt Romney. Yet apart from Romney and the uncertain economy, Obama's greatest obstacle on the path to reelection may be Obama 2008. He and his team of skilled advisers must try to reconcile their nostalgia to the once-in-a-lifetime advertising campaign with the realities of the election fundamentally changed by the development of super PACs and the evaporation of Obama's superstar reputation. That concern has led a advertising campaign procedure that once prided itself on flawless execution of technique to commit some of the most dangerous unforced errors of Obama's politics career. Yet the game is definately not over. If Obama is sometimes his own worst enemy, he also has the skill and drive to reclaim this competition. Spurred on by the sensible prospect of getting rid of, and growing ever more impatient with the foibles of his advertising campaign personnel, Obama the competitor is gearing up for the most critical fourth one fourth of his career. This is actually the tale of the last stand that will either concrete his legacy forever - or consign him to a roster of once-promising one-term presidents.
