Magazine Cover Portrayal of the 2012 Presidential Campaign

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Magazine Cover Portrayal of the 2012 Presidential Campaign

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The Nation	11/26	2012	BO and others riding wave crashing over MR and others	-	Illustration	Steve Brodner
The Weekly Standard	11/19	2012	from Edvard Munch "The Scream"	Four More Years	Illustration	Edvard Munch
The Nation	11/19	2012	family watching MR, BO, money on widescreen TV	-	Illustration	Steve Brodner
Time	11/12	2012	Venn diagram with blue and red circles and small purple area in middle	Vote Obama / Vote Romney	Illustration	nc
Sojourners	11	2012	BO, MR silhouettes	Choice	Illustration	Ken Davis
World	11/03	2012	MR on elephant; BO on donkey	Race to the finish	Illustration	Richard Cowdrey for World
The Economist	11/03	2012	BO, MR	Which one?	Photo Illustration	nc
The Week	11/02	2012	BO and MR tugging over Ohio	One-state solution	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
Metro Week (DC)	11/01	2012	BO, MR	The Choice?	Photos	BO iStockphoto by Sean Gallup MR iStockphoto by John Moore
The American Interest	11	2012	MR, BO, text	Romney vs Obama: None of the Above	Illustration	Lindsey Burrows
America	10/29	2012	PR and JB	A Historic Race	Photos	PR: Reuters/Mike Segar. JB: Jason Reed
The Week	10/19	2012	MR and BO basketball	Game Change	Illustration
The Weekly Standard	10/15	2012	MR, PR, BO and JB	Debate Smackdown	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
New Yorker	10/15	2012	MR, BO chair	["One on One"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt
Time	10/15	2012	BO, MR in text	The Fact Wars: Who Is Telling the Truth	Graphic design	Dylan Roscover for Time
The Economist	10/06	2012	BO, MR	Everything to play for	Photo	nc
The Weekly Standard	10/08	2012	BO, MR	The Real Debate	Photos	Newscom
In These Times	10	2012	BO, MR	Winning in 2012	Photos	Obama: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images; Romney: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
National Journal	09/22	2012	Post card-like images of Chicago, Boston	A Search for Home	Photos	Boston-Shutterstock; Chicago-iStockphoto
The Week	09/21	2012	BO, MR	Obama's bounce	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The Nation	10/01	2012	BO, MO, Bill Clinton, unid.; MR, PR, Clint Eastwood, unid.	Face-Off/Convention Dispatches	Illustration	Steve Brodner
The National Interest	09	2012	BO, MR struggling over globe	Politics & Geopolitics	Illustration	Chris Hiers
National Journal	08/25	2012	BO, MR head shots (blue and red)	Special Convention Supplement: A Clash of Ideas	Photos	BO-UPI / Brian Kersey; MR-Associated Press / Cliff Owen
Fortune	09	2012	BO, MR campaign buttons	Hey Washington: Enough Already	Photo Illustration	Photography by Sam Kaplan; button design by Gail Anderson and Joe Newton
Washington Post Magazine	08/19	2012	BO, MR faces on balloons	Dana Milbank's Don't Miss Guide to the conventions	Illustration	Andy Friedman
The Atlantic	09	2012	BO, MR as boxers	Obama vs. Romney	Photo	Alison Jackson
UTNE Reader	09	2012	BO, MR riding drone	War Games	Illustration	Tom Richmond
The Economist	07/28	2012	BO, MR as Laurel and Hardy	"Another fine mess"	Photo Illustration	nc
The Week	07/27	2012	BO as TSA agent, MR as passenger	Nothing to hide?	Illustration	Fred Harper
Washington Monthly	07	2012	husband and wife at table; BO and MR on TV	The Economic Debate the Politicians Aren't Having	Photo	image - Tina Schrider/Froghouse Photography. candidates - Getty Images.
National Journal	06/16	2012	scalpel, hatchet	[none]	Photo	iStockphoto
The Week	06/01	2012	MR, Joseph Smith, Jr., BO, Rev. Wright	Targets of Bigotry	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The Weekly Standard	04/30	2012	MR, BO	Face Off	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
The Economist	04/14	2012	MR, BO (baseball theme)	The hardball campaign	Illustration	Kal
third parties
Reason	12	2012	Gary Johnson	Can This Man Get 1% of the Vote?	Photo	Gage Skidmore
The Progressive	09	2012	Jill Stein; BO, MR	The Third Party Dilemma	Illustration	Zela Lobb
The Weekly Standard	06/11	2012	convention crowd	Un-conventional (The Libertarian Party does Las Vegas)	Illustration	David Clark
The American Prospect	03/12	2012	elephant, donkey, pig	Wall Street's Third Party	Illustration	Victor Juhasz
General Themes
Time	11/05	2012	Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln	What Would Lincoln Do?	Photo	© DreamWorks Pictures and 20th Century Fox
Harper's	11	2012	workers painting USA states red and blue	How to Steal an Election	Illustration	William Duke; cover art direction Roger Black
National Journal	10/27	2012	two people in front of a shed	Off the Trail	Photo	Getty Images/Mario Tama
Reason	11	2012	campaign button	Your vote doesn't counts	Photo Illustration	jimmyi23/Dreamstime.com
Newsweek	10/22	2012	Lincoln, make up hands	The Great Campaigner	Photo Illustration	Dress Code
World	10/20	2012	roll of I Voted stickers	Inside Election 2012	Photo	Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The Week	10/05	2012	security guard checking id card at polling place	You got proof?	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
Harper's	10	2012	hand putting burning ballot in ballot box	Why vote?	Illustration	Arthur E. Giron; cover art direction Roger Black
The Atlantic	10	2012	battered and bruised bald eagle	You Call This an Election?	Illustration	Design by Darhil Crooks; photo illustration by MDI Digital
National Journal	05/03	2012	bridge	The Bridge to Somewhere	Photo	Getty Images/Thinkstock
Townhall	05	2012	8 vice presidential prospects	Who Will Win the Veepstakes	Photo Illustration	nc
American Spectator	05	2012	man faces split in the road	A Time for Choosing	Illustration	Dean MacAdam
Time	03/05	2012	faces of 20 Latinos	Yo decido.	Photos	Marco Grob
CQ Weekly	02/27	2012	feet in voting booth	The other election battle	Photo	Getty Images
New Yorker	01/09	2012	IA, NH, SC, FL, NV	[title "Chutes and Ladders"]	Illustration	Bruce McCall
The Economist	12/31	2011	strongman	The right Republican	Illustration	Kal
National Journal	12/	2011	Statue of Liberty in corn field	Field of Dreams [GOP candidates on immigration]	Photo Illustration	field-Thinkstock/Hemera statue-iStockphoto
The Economist	11/05	2011	two hamburger buns with no meat in the middle	The missing middle	Illustration	nc
Townhall	11	2011	youths	Winning the Youth Vote	Photo	nc
American Journalism Review		2011	reporters and Twitter birds	Campaign Coverage In the Time of Twitter	Illustration	Steve Brodner
National Journal	10/29	2011	seismograph line	Still Shaking	Illustration	Peter Bell
Newsweek	05/23	2011	woman	The Good Wife	Photo Illustration	Michael Elins for Newsweek
Money
CQ Weekly	09/17	2012	money and ads	The Year of Giving Secretly	Photo Illustration	Michael Stanaland
Time	08/15	2012	White House with for sale sign in front	For Sale - Asking:$2.5 billion	Photo Illustration	by Zeff Design for Time. White House Susan Walsh-AP
Sojourner's	08	2012	graphic of man in cowboy hat using roll of $ to light cigar	Who Owns Democracy?	Illustration	Ralf Hiemisch
New York Times Magazine	07/08	2012	White House in currency	Rent Hike!	Photo of model of White House	Model by Katrin Rodegast. Reinhard Hunger for The New York Times
Mother Jones	07	2012	man in dark overcoat	Wanna Buy an Election?	Photo	Dale Stephanos
The New Republic	05/10	2012	Simmons in cowboy hat	What Does the 2012 Campaign's Biggest Donor Really Want?	Photo Illustration	Sean McCabe
Harper's	04	2012	partial man in suit and tie, money in pocket	It's a Rich Man's World	Photo Collage	Michael Mitra. Photos by Image Source/Corbis and Ocean/Corbis
The Nation	02/06	2012	fist out of TV	The Assault of the Super PACs	Illustration	Milton Glaser Incorporated
The Week	02/03	2012	watching TV	The dirtiest campaign	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
CQ Weekly	09/19	2011	money	Bucks Unlimited	Photo	iStockphoto
Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan
New Yorker	10/29	2012	Romney being tatooed	["Skin Deep"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt [with apologies to Norman Rockwell]
The New Republic	11/8	2012	Romney family snapshot	Growing up Romney	Photo	Reuters
The Week	10/26	2012	Romney as accountant	Mitt's Math	Illustration	Fred Harper
The Nation	10/29	2012	handshake	Tagg Team		Milton Glaser Incorporated
New York Times Magazine	10/21	2012	Paul Ryan	Mr. Right	Illustration	Jaime Hernandez
Townhall	10	2012	Paul Ryan	Real Change	Photo
Time	10/05	2012	Romney	The Mormon Identity	Photo of stained glass art	Stained glass by Megan Caponetto for Time. Photo by Dan Forbes
New Yorker	10/1	2012	Romney on the back of a horse while chauffeur on front holds the reins	["Driven"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt
The New Republic	10/04	2012	Paul Ryan	The Ryan Plan (For Himself)	Illustration	Philip Burke
The Nation	09/24	2012	Paul Ryan and cricket (Romney?)	The GOP's Pinnochio Politics	Illustration	Steve Brodner
World	09/22	2012	From the Convention: The Romneys, the Ryans, delegates	Dead Heat	Photo	Jae C. Hong/AP
The Nation	09/17	2012	Man w/ cigar; Romney, Ryan, supporters	Greedy Old Party	Illustration	Omar Rubio
Rolling Stone	09/13	2012	Romney	Greed & Debt	Illustration	Richard Grossman
The New Republic	09/13	2012	Romney	Republican Convention Special	Illustration	Portrait by Bee
National Review	09/10	2012	Romney and Ryan	The Case for Romney	Illustration	Roberto Parada
The Week	09/07	2012	Romney and Ann	Unveiling Mitt 2.0	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The Weekly Standard	09/03	2012	Two elephants on beach	Greetings from Tampa	Illustration	Scott Brundage
New Yorker	09/03	2012	Romney and Ryan	["Bromance"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt
Time	09/03	2012	Romney	The Mind of Mitt	Photo	by Peter Hapak for Time
National Journal	09/01	2012	convention-type credentials	Home Stretch	Photo Illustration	Photo and illustration by Chet Susslin
CQ Weekly	08/27	2012	Romney and Ryan (rally in Norfolk, VA, Aug. 11)	United Front	Photo	Saul Loeb for AFP/Getty Images
The Economist	08/25	2012	Romney	So, Mitt, what do you really believe?	Photo	nc
Parade	08/26	2012	Romney and Ann	The Romneys	Photo	Ben Baker
NewsMax	09	2012	Romney and Ann	Saving America	Photo	Samantha Alyn Goresh
In These Times	09	2012	Romney	The Bain Legacy	Photo	Justin K. Aller/Getty Images
The Weekly Standard	08/27	2012	Ryan, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid	The Assault on Paul Ryan	Illustration	Gary Locke
The Week	08/31	2012	Romney and Ryan	A clear choice	Illustration	Fred Harper
The New Republic	08/23	2012	Romney strategist Stuart Stevens	The Most Interesting Man in the World	Photo Illustration	Jim Salvatti
National Review	08/27	2012	Romney with gold tooth	Own It, Mitt	Photo Illustration	Evan Vucci/AP
The Nation	09/10	2012	Paul Ryan	The GOP's Extremist Golden Boy	Photo	Cover design Milton Glaser Incorporated
Bloomberg Businessweek	08/13	2012	Romney	[The Interview Issue]	Photo	Ben Baker/Redux
Commonweal	08/17	2012	Romney (xcu)	The Difference	Photo	-
The Weekly Standard	08/13	2012	Romney at the Western Wall	The Real Romney Trip	Photo	Newscom
Newsweek	08/06	2012	Romney	The Wimp Factor	Photo	Mark Makela - In Pictures-Corbis
The Weekly Standard	07/23	2012	Paul Ryan, MR, Boehner, McConnell and Cantor	Leader of the Pack	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
The Nation	07/16	2012	Romney in top hat	Mitt Romney and the New Gilded Age	Illustration	Steve Brodner
World	06/30	2012	Romney, advisors	The Brain Trust	Photo Illustration	Kreig Barrie. Photos: Romney Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Advisors Josh Reynolds/AP
Time	06/04	2012	archival Romney and his mother	Raising Romney	Photo	Douglas R. Gilbert-Look magazine, courtesy Library of Congress
The American Prospect	06	2012	Romney	Meet President Romney	Illustration	Victor Juhasz
The Weekly Standard	05/28	2012	Romney	It's Etch-a-Sketch Time!	Illustration	photo The Weekly Standard; illustration Gary Locke
UTNE	05	2012	Romney	The Mormon Mystique	Illustration	DonkeyHotey
CQ Weekly	04/09	2012	Romney, Paul Ryan, crowd	Getting Behind Romney	Photo	Jim Watson for AFP/Getty Images
National Journal	03/10	2012	Romney	Don't Blame Mitt	Photo	Associated Press/Charles Dharapak
Reason	03	2012	Romney	Consultant in Chief	Photo	Chris Fitzgerald/Candidate Photos/Newscom
The New Republic	02/16	2012	Romney (extreme CU)	Would He Beat Obama?	Photo Enhancement	J Heroun
National Journal	01/21	2012		Romney the follower	Photo Illustration	Romney: Associated Press/Charles Krupa; crowd iStockphoto
The Economist	01/14	2012	Romney	America's next CEO?	Photo	nc
Time	01/14	2012	Romney	So You Like Me Now?	Photo	Brooks Kraft-Corbis for Time
The Week	12/16	2011	Romney	Blowing a circuit	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
New York Times Magazine	12/04	2011	Romney egg toy	Why Mitt Romney Is Not Falling Down	Photo Illustration	Tom Schierlitz; Illustration Francesco Poroli.
Parade	12/04	2011	Romney and Ann	A Mitt Romney You Haven't Seen Yet	Photo	Ben Baker
Time	12/12	2011	Romney	Why Don't They Like Me?	Photo	Brooks Kraft for Time
The New Republic	12/15	2011	Romney	You Won't Like Him When He's Angry	Illustration	Guyco (Eddie Guy)
New York	10/31	2011	a younger Romney	Mitt Romney and the 1% Economy	Photo	nc
World	07/16	2011	Romney	Focus on Mitt Romney	Photo Illustration	Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call/Getty Images
Newsweek	06/13	2011	Romney's head on figure from the "Book of Mormon" musical	The Mormon Moment	Photo Illustration
Primaries - Multiple
The Week	04/13	2012	MR, Paul Ryan and RS	Last man standing	Illustration	Fred Harper
World	03/24	2012	MR, RS	The Battle	Photos	MR: Garald Herbert/AP RS: Charles Dharapak/AP
New Yorker	03/12	2012	MR (in car), RS (in kennel on top)	[title "State by State"]	Illustration	Bob Staake
World	02/11	2012	MR, NG, RS, RP and BO	Tour D'America Road Rage	Photo Illustration	Kreig Barrie
The Week	02/10	2012	MR, NG	Game over?	Illustration	Fred Harper
New Yorker	02/06	2012	MR, NG and BO	[title "The Big Game"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt
Newsweek	02/06	2012	MR, NG as gladiators	I Will Prevail	Photo Illustration	Sean McCabe
National Journal	02/04	2012	MR, NG	The Odd Couple	Illustration	Steve Brodner
New York	01/30	2012	MR, NG and BO	The Bloodiest Campaign	Photo Illustration	Darrow
The Week	01/20	2012	RS, RPaul, Republican elephant	The war within the GOP	Illustration	Harold McWilliam
The Weekly Standard	01/23	2012	MR, NG, JH, RPaul, RPerry, RS	Can the Romney Juggernaut Be Derailed?	Illustration	Gary Locke
National Journal	01/07	2012	RS and wife, MR and wife	Heart and Head	Photos	RS-Associated Press Charlie Riedel MR-Ralf-Finn Hestoft
Townhall	01	2012	NG and MR	Mitt vs. Newt	Photos
The Week	12/30	2011	incl. MR, NG, HC, BO and others	The faces of 2011	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The New Republic	12/29	2011	MB, NG, JH, RPaul, RPerry, MR and RS as dogs	Showtime!	Illustration	Pablo Lobato
The Week	12/23	2011	NG, MR (v.small)	Is Newt fit to serve?	Illustration	Fred Harper
The Weekly Standard	12/26	2011	MR, NG, RPaul in front and RPerry, MB in back	They're Off!	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
National Journal	11/12	2011	MR, RPerry	Two Governors, Two Styles	Photo	Getty Images/Win McNamee
American Spectator	11	2011	Paul Ryan, MR, RPerry	It's GOP Gut-Check Time	Photo Illustration
The Weekly Standard	10/31	2011	HC, MR	On a Roll	Illustration	Chris Morris
The Week	10/28	2011	MR, HC	Still not in love	Illustration	Fred Harper
New York Times Magazine	10/16	2011	HC, MR, MB and RPerry	Does Anyone Have a Grip on the G.O.P.?	Photo Illustration	Photograph by Victor Shrager for The NYT. (Perry) Joe Raedle/Getty Images; (Romney) Scott Audette/ Reuters; (Bachmann, Cain) Chris O’Meara/Associated Press.
Newsweek	10/3	2011	RPerry, MR	It's On!	Photos	Photo Illustration by Newsweek
The Week	09/23	2011	RPerry, MR and BO	Making Magic	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The Week	09/09	2011	RPerry and MB	A matter of faith	Illustration	Fred Harper
The Weekly Standard	08/29	2011	Perry big in foreground; MR and MB; TP leaving; Christie and Ryan	Rick Perry Enters the Ring	Illustration	Gary Locke
World	08/13	2011	MB and TP	Face-Off	Photos	MB-Bill Haber/AP TP-Scott Olson/Getty Images
New York	08/08	2011	MR and JH	The Cain and Abel of American Politics	Photos	Photography by Douglas C. Pizac/Associated Press
The New Republic	08/18	2011	HC, TP, RPaul, RPerry, MB, MR	The Strange New World of Republican Foreign Policy	Illustration	Daniel Cowles
Time	06/27	2011	MR, JH, TP, wild card, NG, MB, RS, RP, SP, HC	Baracketology*	Photos
National Journal	06/11	2011	MR, NG, TP, SP, MB, JH, HC, RP, RS	First Heat	Illustration	Steve Brodner
The Economist	06/11	2011	towering Obama and tiny MB, NG, TP, MR, JH and SP.	...and yet I could still lose	Photo Illustration	nc
World	06/18	2011	10 candidates and potential candidates: front l-r RS, RP, MR, TP, NG, HC; back l-r SP, GJ, MB, JH	Tour d'America	Photo Illustration	Krieg Barrie
The Week	06/03	2011	Romney, Huntsman, Pawlenty	Waiting for Superman	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
The New Republic	04/07	2011	Bachmann, Boehner, Gingrich and McConnell	Can Health Care Reform Survive	Photo Illustration
National Journal	12/18	2010	Barbour, Daniels, Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Huckabee	Managers vs Populists	Illustration
The Economist	11/06	2010	On horses Palin, Romney, Huckabee, House Republican leaders	The Republicans ride in	Photo Illustration	nc
CQ Weekly	11/01	2010	16 very small photos of pres. prospects from Barbour to Trump	There Will Be Blood	Photos and text
Townhall	02	2010	MR, NG, SP, Pence, Huckabee, Jindal, Limbaugh and Beck	The Republican Challenge	Photos	nc
Ron Paul
Reason	04	2012	Paul	The Ron Paul Moment	Photo	Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The American Conservative	02/01	2012	Paul	Ron Paul and his Enemies	Illustration	Michael Hogue
National Review	09/19	2011	Paul	Ron Paul's Last Crusade	Illustration	Roman Genn
Newt Gingrich
National Journal	01/28	2012	Gingrich from time as speaker	Return of the Revolutionary	Photo	Associate Press/John Duricka
New Yorker	01/02	2012	Gingrich (1994) and Father Time (2011)	[title "Deja Vu All Over Again"]	Illustration	Barry Blitt
National Review	12/31	2011	Gingrich as cartoon space figure	Newt's World	Illustration	Roman Genn
The Week	12/23	2011	Gingrich as hot air balloon (MR v.small)	Is Newt fit to serve?	Illustration	Fred Harper
Newsweek	12/19	2011	Gingrich	The Audacity of Newt	Photo	Jake Chessum for Newsweek
CQ Weekly	12/05	2011	Gingrich	Running on His Record	Photo of Illustration	Portrait by Thomas V. Nash, CQ Roll Call Photo by Scott Farrell
The Weekly Standard	11/28	2011	Gingrich	The Comeback Kid	Illustration	James Bennett
NewsMax	2	2010	Gingrich	A New 'Contract with America'	Photo
Rick Santorum
The Advocate	05	2012	Santorum	Is This Rick Santorum's America?	Photo Illustration	source photos by Getty Images; photo illustration by Scott McPherson
The Week	03/02	2012	Santorum on elephant	Too far to the right?	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
National Review	01/23	2012	Santorum	The Rise of Rick	Photo	Patric Fallon/Zuma/Newscom
Rick Perry
xTexas Monthly	1	2012	Perry	Hey, Rick! [Bum Steers]	Illustration	x
The American Prospect	12	2011	Perry	Rick Perry's Articles of Faith	Photo	Melina Mara/Getty Images
Parade	10/23	2011	Perry	Rick Perry	Photo	Ben Baker
The New Republic	10/20	2011	Perry	What's Driving Rick Perry?	Illustration	Robert Hunt
NewsMax	10	2011	Perry	The Real Rick Perry	Photo	Courtesy of WhiteHouse2012.wordpress.com Composite Photos/Istockphoto
Townhall	10	2011	Perry	Rick Perry	Photo
Time	09/26	2011	Perry	The Rise of Rick Perry	Photo	Platon
National Review	04/04	2011	Perry	Giving Washington The Boot	Illustration	Roman Genn
Newsweek	04/26	2010	Perry	Don't Mess With Texas	Photo	Matthew Mahon-Redux
Texas Monthly	02	2010	Perry	Perry for President?!?	Photo Illustration	Dan Winters
Michele Bachmann
Newsweek	08/15	2011	Bachmann	The Queen of Rage	Photo	Chris Buck for Newsweek
CQ Weekly	08/01	2011	Bachmann	Raising Hell	Photo	Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla
National Review	07/18	2011	Bachmann	Daughter of Liberty	Illustration	Thomas Reis
The Weekly Standard	07/04	2011	Bachmann	Queen of the Tea Party	Illustration	Gary Locke
NewsMax	07	2011	Bachmann	Heartland Warrior	Photo	James Berglie/Zuma Press
Herman Cain
Newsweek	10/24	2011	Cain	The Unlikely Rise of the Anti-Obama: Yes We Cain!	Photo Illustration	Illustration by Gluekit for Newsweek
Tim Pawlenty
National Review	03/07	2011	Pawlenty	Pawlenty's Shot	Illustration	Roman Genn
Not In
Sarah Palin
Portfolio	04	2009	Palin	Palin & Big Oil	Photo	Jonathan Becker
Time	07/20	2009	Palin	The Renegade	Photo	Brian Adams
The Weekly Standard	07/20	2009	Palin	Out of Alaska	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
The Progressive	08	2009	Palin	Naomi Klein on Capitalism Sarah Palin-Style	Illustration	Zina Saunders
The Weekly Standard	11/02	2009	Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Elephant	Is the GOP in Fighting Trim	Illustration	Thomas Fluharty
The Weekly Standard	11/16	2009	Palin, Andrew Jackson, William Jennings Bryan	Palin's Populist Pedigree	Illustration	Gary Locke
Newsweek	11/23	2009	Palin	How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sarah?	Photo	Brian Adams-Rapport [Runner's World]
The Week	11/27	2009	Palin, Chief Justice Roberts	Is this possible?	Illustration	Harold McWilliam
In Touch	01/25	2010	Palin, Bristol Palin, their two babies	'We're Glad We Chose Life'	Photo	Shealeh Craighead Photography
The Week	02/19	2010	Palin, two colonials	Mainstream Rebels?	Illustration	Fred Harper
The American Conservative	04	2010	Palin, elephant	Tea Totalers	Illustration	Chris Hiers
The Nation	04/12	2010	Palin, Limbaugh, Beck {Alice in Wonderland}	The Mad Tea Party	Illustration	Drew Freedman
National Journal	04/10	2010	Palin	No Dummy	Photo	Getty Images/Darran Hauck
New York	05/03	2010	Palin	PalinInc	Photo	Indep. Group Home Living Foundation/ PR News/ Newscom
The Economist	06/12	2010	Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Obama elephants {Alice in Wonderland}	What's wrong with America's right	Illustration	Kal
Newsweek	06/21	2010	Palin	Saint Sarah	Photo Illustration	Photo Jose Anderson Reuters-Landow
Utne Reader	07	2010	Palin holding tea cup	The New Face of Activism	Illustration	Zina Saunders
The Week	10/01	2010	Palin, O'Donnell, elephant	Calling the tune	Illustration	Howard McWilliam
Newsweek	10/04	2010	O'Donnell, Palin, Haley and Bachmann	The Bear Truth	Photos	[Palin by Sean Gardner-Reuters-Corbis]
The Nation	10/18	2010	O'Donnell, Palin, Fiorina, Bachmann	Sex and the GOP	Illustration	design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels
Bloomberg Businessweek	10/18	2010	Palin	Why Business Doesn't Trust the Tea Party	Photo	Martin Schoeller/August Image
CQ Weekly	10/25	2010	Palin and crowd	Revenge of the Right	Photo	Jason Andrew for Getty Images
Mother Jones	11	2010	Palin in style of 50s movie poster	Attack on the Middle Class	Illustration	Zina Saunders
New York	11/1	2010	Palin	President Palin	Photo	Rick Wilking/Reuters
The New Republic	11/11	2010	Palin	How the Age of Austerity will Remake American Politics	Illustration	Jim Salvati
New York Times Magazine	11/21	2010	Palin	The Palin Network	Photos
Time	12/20	2010	Palin	Palin in Progress	Illustration	Tim O'Brien
Townhall	05	2011	Palin	Will Sarah Run?	Photo	nc
The Week	06/11	2011	Palin	Hey, look at me!	Illustration	Fred Harper
Chris Christie
New York Times Magazine	02/27	2011	Christie	The Disrupter	Photo	Henry Leutwyler
John Bolton
National Review	12/31	2010	Bolton	Speak Boldly, And Carry A Big Stick	Illustration	Roman Genn
Mitch Daniels
American Spectator	11	2010	Daniels	Mitch Daniels Moment	Photo	Newscom
The Weekly Standard	06/14	2010	Daniels	Ride Along with Mitch	Illustration	Gary Locke
Donald Trump
Bloomberg Businessweek	05/02	2011	Trump	Seriously	Photo	Michele Asselin
The Week	04/29	2011	Trump	Shaking it up	Illustration	Fred Harper
Mike Huckabee
World	05/09	2009	Huckabee	A Day in the Life	Photo	Newscom
Haley Barbour
American Spectator	4	2011	Barbour	Haley Barbour, Wonk	Illustration	John Springs
The Weekly Standard	12/27	2010	Barbour	The Boy from Yazoo City	Illustration	Gary Locke
John Thune
The Weekly Standard	10/04	2010	Thune	Dakota Dreaming	Photo	Newscom
Jeb Bush
National Review	02/21	2011	Bush	The Jeb Model	Photo	Charles W. Luzier/Reuters/Corbis
David Petraeus
American Spectator	05	2010	Petraeus	President Petraeus	Photo	Newscom

Notes:
-Dates above are issue dates which are often several days to several weeks later than when the magazine actually comes out.

-Inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie "Lincoln" starring Daniel Day-Lewis both Time ("What Would Lincoln Do?" Nov. 5, 2012 issue) and Newsweek ("The Great Campaigner," Oct. 22, 2012 issue) featured President Abraham Lincoln on the cover in the closing weeks of the campaign.

-Maclean's, the Canadian newsmagazine, put Romney on the cover of its Sept. 3, 2012 issue with a pull-no-punches subhead "How this gaffe-prone, flip-flopping, mega-rich elitist could still beat Obama" (cover photo by Andrew Tolson)

-The story behind The Atlantic's Sept. 2012 cover is rather amazing. Although the image looks like a painting it is actually a photo. Luke Hayman, a partner at the design firm Pentagram, described how it came about in an Aug. 22 article on The Atlantic's website. They found stand-ins for Romney and Obama, spent a full day in the gym, and British photographer Alison Jackson shot about 15,000 frames. (see: "Slugfest 2012: The Making of The Atlantic's September Cover.")

-Bloomberg Businessweek considered but did not run on its 01/16/12 issue a cover that showed a bruised and bloodied image of Romney. The magazine instead went with a cover photo of Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. Interestingly New York magazine did go with a somewhat similar image featuring Romney, Gingrich and Obama on its 01/30/12 issue. BuzzFeed and The Atlantic Wire reprinted this statement from Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel:

Each week we design a few cover possibilities for the upcoming issue. We see where the news is going and make a final decision about the image on Wednesday afternoon. Two weeks ago (January 16 issue, on stands January 13) we had two great pieces in the magazine: Ashlee Vance's profile of Steve Ballmer and his efforts to reboot Microsoft, and Peter Coy's Opening Remarks about how the GOP had turned on Mitt Romney and Private Equity. In the end, we went with Ballmer since the Romney story seemed to have already hit its peak. A lot of times these decisions are about all of us putting our finger in the air and trying to figure out which way the zeitgeist is blowing. It's what makes the job so fun and so challenging.

-The Sept. 23, 2011 issue of The Week, (mid-September), and the Oct. 3, 2011 issue of Newsweek (latter part of September) show how even months before the first votes were cast the race for the GOP nomination, the conventional wisdom media view had already narrowed the race down to Perry vs. Romney.

-Newsweek's 8/15/11 cover of Bachmann featuring a photo by Chris Buck created a bit of a stir. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart did a riff on the cover. "Be honest Newsweek. You used that photo in a petty attempt to make Michele Bachmann look crazy," Stewart said. "And that's what her words are for." Newsweek editor-in-chief Tina Brown said in a statement, “Michele Bachmann’s intensity is galvanizing voters in Iowa right now and Newsweek’s cover captures that." Some saw it as an example of "political gender bias in the media" (letter).

-For background and observations on Time's Perry cover see: Feifei Sun. "Platon on Perry: Behind the Scenes of the Cover of TIME." Time Lightbox, Sept. 15, 2011.

-Newsweek's 6/13/11 cover of Romney ("The Morman Moment: How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners") generated some controversy. The cover features Romney's head photoshopped on a poster for "Book of Mormon," the musical. Jim Geraghty writing in National Review online's "The Campaign Spot" put up a posting titled "Newsweek, Portraying Romney as a Dancing Lunatic" in which he described the cover as "appalling."

-Only three solo Ron Paul covers were found. In response to The Week's April 13, 2012 issue "Last man standing" showing a battered Romney, Paul Ryan, and a battered Santorum, Paul supporter TJ Riordan commented, "Do you see Ron Paul in the background with the large crowd around him celebrating freedom and liberty....oh wait that's not in the media, that's only in reality. Ron Paul 2012!"

-The list shows the pre-campaign fascination with Palin, who appeared as a central figure in eight covers in 2009 and 18 in 2010. In addition to those Palin covers on the list, she also appeared, although not as a dominant figure, in The New Republic 10/28/10 issue "The Republicans are Coming!" (illustration by Erik T. Johnson) which is a highly stylized Halloween image with Boehner, O'Donnell, Palin, and several others. She is included in The Week 12/25/09 issue "The faces of 2009" and 01/07/11 issue "The faces of 2010."

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