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November 2, 2013

Politics

The Intervention

He’d blown the Denver debate. Now he was on the verge of blowing the second and risking his reelection. “I just don’t know if I can do this,” Obama told his team. The story of how they turned things around, excerpted from Double Down: Game Change 2012.

John Heilemann, Mark Halperin New York Nov 2013 25min Permalink