class=”publishdate”> November 9, 2013 at 00:01 Non-fiction Double down: Game change 2012 Mark Halperin and John Heilemann 512 P. Penguin Press
United States Presidential Election 2012 was a political circus unprecedented. Republicans refused so far to agree on a candidate to the party’s split was a perverted reality show, with new television debates and scandals every week. Even when Mitt Romney scooped nomination ended the infighting. And with the Supreme Court’s deregulation of campaign financing had none, whether Democrat or Republican, no real control over what happened. The new “Super PAC ‘groups, led by eccentric billionaires, poured money into the campaign and bought tens of thousands of hours of advertising time on television.
Circus is perhaps wrong metaphor. As a veteran reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann see it touched it themselves instead of a drawn game of poker, where the two great players at every juncture decided to double the bet and continue to run as before. “Double down” is Halperin and Heil Mann’s sequel to the bestseller “Game Change” about the 2008 election, the one that became HBO movie with Julianne Moore in the role of Sarah Palin.
Their new long story is just as entertaining, with-jerking and revealing. The depiction is scenic structure and high efficiency in the vignette, especially when campaign contributors may rule on the other. Romney’s strategy officer questioned by a fellow like this: “You must never let the artist run gallery. Sends man Stuart to 7-Eleven and tell him to buy a loaf of bread and a packet of milk, it may take a week and half before you see him again. “Authors seem to have unlimited access. They have achieved the same level as Bob Woodward, the Washington Post journalist who all speak to the sheer terror to everyone else still does. The safest way to get its own version.
Perhaps the most sensational of the book is the portrait of the president himself. To begin with, you have to wonder how a man who is usually described as so confident yet spend hours plowing books about his leadership style and erupting over the content.
this as well in the rage of all types of leaks appear to Barack Obama at times as a sort of sunnier version of Richard Nixon (minus alcohol problems and criminal proclivities). In one respect, however, he corresponds to expectations: he really hate the political game. After his poor effort in the first TV debate against Romney he suffers a minor breakdown and exclaims:
-I do not know if I can do this.
He refers apkonsterna required in today’s media landscape.
Another revelation during the reading, of course, the venerable Republican Party’s long, acute crisis. You are amazed when you realize how weak header was actually 2012, and how close it was to be nominated someone who would have crumbled to grips with the Obama ruthless apparatus. Romney appears in retrospect that the given candidate – which is saying a lot considering how impossible he had to reach out to voters.
That I miss in “Double down” is, however, an image of the U.S. in any way resembles reality. When I traveled around the state of Pennsylvania for a month during the election campaign, I was struck again by the sheer choice that only ran on television. After the first debate in Denver, who are the backbone of the book’s dramaturgy, I sat on a bar in a medium-sized town and tried to get people to talk about their impressions. It was impossible, because everyone was preoccupied with the police just confiscated all illegal gaming machines in the resort. On the way home, I asked the taxi driver what he thought of the debate. He thought I meant local newspaper’s campaign to get young people in March in the neighborhood to stop committing suicide.
No, if you want to know anything about the real America should probably rather read George Packer’s earthshaking “The Unwinding” if a charter has completely eroded down. The problem with “Double Down” is that it portrays the power of the circus from the inside, without the slightest interest in the country’s population. It’s like trying to get a picture of Brazil by following some sportswriter blogs.
policy in the “Double Down” is a martial spectacle, a blood sport where players are measured by the ability to beat to death the opponent. The authors are half aware of this, they attract the term “freak” every now and then. But to dispel smokescreen are in this show, they lift nary a finger. We get a look behind the scenes, which in itself is brilliant entertainment. But no, we learn about the mil-lion and millions of people who were not even interested to go there and watch the misery.
I hope film version – it comes naturally – made by a director with broader interests. Allow the president to talk about the tormented middle-class student, followed by a rapid transition to the eighteen year old girl who toil for minimum wage at a burger stand and do not even know where the nearest college is located. Cut to Romney’s bantering about “the 47 percent” he does not care about. And so the end of the assembly: Election Day. There, eighteen-year-old stands at frittösen as usual. Her boss at the restaurant is the only one she knows who drag themselves to the polling station.
Thomas Engström is a writer and current with the political thriller “West of freedom.”
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