Obama vs. Romney: "The Take" on Election 2012

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential Campaign


The presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.


Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times.  Balz recounts the back-and-forth slugfest of 2012 in a single seamless narrative, including his hundreds of interviews with behind-the-scenes players who crafted both Obama’s scorched-earth re-election game plan and Romney’s audacious strategy for unseating a president. The result is a complete inside story of the campaign from the early days in both parties, through the dramatic ending that wasn’t written until the very last hours of the election.