Download Inside the Circus - Romney, Santorum and the GOP Race: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012) AudioBook Free

Two of America's most perceptive politics reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the competition for the White House in POLITICO's Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital literature on the 2012 presidential election. The second edition, "In the Circus", pulls back again the drape on the pursuit of the Republican nomination, as operatives jockey for position and strategists vie to fashion a message that can win over all factions of the fractious GOP. During the period of a long winter and in to the spring, the competition for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination compiled vapor and bubbled over with episode. At times, it seemed more like a soap opera or actuality show than a political advertising campaign. "In the Circus", the latest real-time digital dispatch from acclaimed politics correspondent Mike Allen and award-winning journalist and author Evan Thomas, chronicles each submit this endlessly unusual race with reporting straight from the advertising campaign warfare rooms of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and the other GOP contenders. That which was the thinking inside the Romney brain trust as what was once expected to be a simple trip to the nomination converted into what some have called a "long slog"? How does Newt Gingrich put the preternaturally poised Romney off his game in South Carolina-and who persuaded the past Massachusetts governor it was time to get started on punching back again? Why were the other promotions found flat-footed by the go up of Rick Santorum and what does his unlikely ascent mean for the prospect of the brokered convention? Through the Iowa caucuses to Super Tuesday and beyond, Allen and Thomas answer all the questions the headlines, polls, and delegate counts can't talk about. The stakes are high, the plotlines remain unfolding, and "In the Circus" is your fly-on-the-wall guide to the most amazing Republican presidential competition in recent storage area.

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Publisher	Random House Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2012-04
Author	Evan Thomas

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