1. News in Focus: US ELECTIONS This PowerPoint on the US elections 2012 is part of the News in Focus series produced by the Guardian Teacher Network. You are welcome to use or adapt this PowerPoint in your teaching but please don't use the photographs within it for any other reason as this will breach copyright. In this PowerPoint you will find photographs the US elections and US politics by photojournalists. You'll find captions and picture credits on each slide in the notes section of the PowerPoint. If you can't see them immediately you will need to change the way you view the PowerPoint to include notes from your menu bar.

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16. ©Louise Murray, Rex Phtos “So Romney's foreign policy would be Obama's foreign policy, just with meaner things to say about Obama” Spencer Ackerman

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19. "Gut reaction, unarticulated, non-analytical, a product of the particular chemistry between the voter and the image of the candidate … [It's] not what's there that counts, it's what's projected."

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22. © Gary Hershorn/Reuters

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