UK: What really happened on the campaign trail

The Guardian

US election 2012: the inside track on Obama's victory and Romney's defeat

As the dust settles and the president gets back to work, we are starting to learn what really happened on the campaign trail

By Tom McCarthy

After the election come the backgrounders – thousands of words of meticulously reported (or briefed) explanations of what went miserably wrong or miraculously right. As some of the campaign's richer inside scenes and better kept secrets, here are some of the highlights...

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