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Bag’s Take-Away:
The still poignant but also familiar photo of the low wage worker sweeping up the campaign venue before or after the hoopla goes down. #TwoAmericas
via: Reuters
(photo: Adrees Latif/Reuters caption: A woman cleans the floor near the stage at McCormick Place, the site for U.S. President Barack Obama’s post election speech, in Chicago, Illinois November 6, 2012. Obama congratulated Republican rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday for running a hard-fought race for the White House and expressed confidence he would win re-election during a stop at a local campaign office to thank volunteers. linked photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Bag’s Election Day Take-Away:
One of the more poignant pics of the day (and a large focus of media coverage): voting in Queens by flashlight.
(photo: Jason Decrow / AP caption: Election workers help a voter, right, finalize his affidavit ballot at a consolidated polling station for residents of the Rockaways on Election Day, on Tuesday, in the Queens borough of New York.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Born in the USA: Pic of Obama w Bruce on election eve has decide Guthrie feel to it.
(photo: Jason Reed/Reuters caption: U.S. President Barack Obama is introduced by musician Bruce Springsteen during an election campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin, November 5, 2012. )
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Incongruously, the GOP pics from this weekend’s Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition get-together have a soup kitchen vibe. (Newt edition.) OWS now a filter?
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