The Christian Science Monitor, responding to one of Obama's uses of the phrase, defined the expression in two ways. But the title also didn't make sense because: Who is doubling down, on what, and how? When the book was announced, the title was not embraced, being a weird merger of the title from the previous, successful book and this 'double down' mini-meme from 2012.

With the GOP convention in Tampa less than a month away, he was running four to six points behind Barack Obama in the national polls. In conventional political terms, Mitt Romney ’s challenge in picking a VP presented a complex puzzle. This new one, while not without good insider reporting, is somewhat limited by the fact that the 2012 presidential campaign was only the most exciting contest of the past four years. The following is an excerpt from DOUBLE DOWN: Game Change 2012 to be published Tuesday, Nov. That one, featuring an ingenue governor from Alaska, detailed the ups and downs of one of the most exciting presidential campaigns in decades. The book is the sequel to the pair's smash hit 2008 campaign book, Game Change. (Among those who are excited: toddlers, flexible women, redheads, and professional animal impersonators.) There's just one problem: a review of the evidence at hand suggests that Halperin and Heilemann may not actually know what 'double down' means. Īmerica is excited about Double Down: Game Change 2012, the new book about the Romney-Obama campaign from political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. 4.1 242 Ratings 14.99 14.99 Publisher Description.

This article is from the archive of our partner.

Double down game change 2012