Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Several staffers on Air Force One stopped shaving, like big-league hitters in the playoffs. He wanted to tell them what this victory meant, because it was very different the second time. That’s a pretty good argument for why we need to act on global warming—though it’s not really clear what the President would or even could do, especially faced with a divided and likely hostile Congress. He won many of the toughest battlegrounds walking away: Virginia by 4 points, Colorado by 5 and the lily white states of Iowa and New Hampshire by 6. “This one’s more satisfying than ’08,” he said. I think the President, like a lot of people, is overstating the geopolitical consequences of greater U.S. energy independence. All rights reserved. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. While TIME’s editors have the final say and don’t make their selection based on the poll results, “it’s always interesting to see where some of our preferred candidates end up,” says TIME executive editor Radhika Jones. TIME’s online voters have already revealed their choice for this year’s top newsmaker: Kim Jong Un. He stands somewhat shorter, having won 4 million fewer votes and two fewer states than in 2008. He untied Ohio’s knotty heartland politics, picked the Republican lock on Florida Cubans and won Paul Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wis. (Those last two data points especially caught the President’s interest.) “That’s a good thing.”, The Campaign Team: David Simas ran Obama’s opinion-research team, including focus groups; Stephanie Cutter managed the daily effort to defend Obama and dismantle Romney; David Axelrod, co-author of the Obama campaign story, oversaw the entire strategy from Chicago; Jim Messina, the campaign manager, designed, built and ran the whole campaign from scratch; Jim Margolis, the TV adman, relentlessly bombarded swing-state airwaves for months; Jeremy Bird, the grassroots organizer, created a smarter, larger Obama army than in 2008. HuffPost is part of Verizon Media. (Sorry, Kim Jong Un—it was a tough choice.) The winner of the people's choice for the person who most influenced the news this year for better or worse will be announced on December 14. 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President The campaign wasn’t pretty, and the economy worse. The short list rounds up an elite list of famous names in business, politics and science. Now he has ranked first in TIME’s completely unscientific Person of the Year reader poll, with 5.6 million votes. Hide other formats and editions. (Inside the White House: Never-Before-Seen Photos). So after his staff arrived, he left his family in the main room of the suite and stepped out to talk with his three top advisers, Axelrod, political strategist David Plouffe and Jim Messina, his campaign manager. © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. They turned neckties into magic charms and facial hair into a talisman and compulsively repeated past behaviors so as not to jinx what seemed to be working. Yes, it’s good for the economy and the country to import less foreign oil, especially from Russia or the Middle East. © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. Following last year’s group choice of “The Protester,” the only group to appear on this year’s list is “Undocumented Americans” — a pick that highlights the demographic growth and increasing political power of Latino Americans and the ongoing struggle over U.S. immigration policy. It could be seen in the new faces who waited hours to vote and in the new ways campaigns are run. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. More than 5.6 million people voted for the supreme leader of North Korea, although his results and those of other high scorers got a boost from members of Internet forums like 4Chan. See Every Person of the Year Cover from 1927 to 2011, Everything You Wanted to Know About TIME’s Person of the Year — Except Who It Is, 13-Year-Old Girl Finds Porn On New Cell Phone, Seven Score and Seven Years Ago: What You Don’t Know About the Gettysburg Address, The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time, Mountain Dew’s ‘Dub the Dew’ Online Poll Goes Horribly Wrong. Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2013. (Though he does have options—see this plan from the Natural Resources Defense Council that would use the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. Voting closes at 11:59 PM on December 12th. It was sent to me as advertised. All rights reserved. While TIME’s annual Person of the Year unveiling is a carefully choreographed dance with a secretive, often unpredictable result, this year TIME decided to narrow the field and reveal its shortlist -- just one day before the grand reveal. The unveiling of TIME’s Person of the Year is less than 24 hours away, and on the Today show Tuesday morning, hosts named the eight frontrunners for this year’s cover. Even the President succumbed, playing basketball on Election Day at the same court he played on before winning in 2008. "For finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union, Barack Obama is TIME's 2012 Person of the Year," Stengel explained in his note this year. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But his 5 million-vote margin of victory out of 129 million ballots cast shocked experts in both parties, and it probably would have been higher had so much of New York and New Jersey not stayed home after Hurricane Sandy. Nor, despite the BP oil spill of 2010, has the White House done much to restrict expanded oil and gas production, even opening parts of the Arctic waters to drillers. Managing Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why Francis is TIME’s pick for Person of the Year 2013, See what @TIME users have to say about Pope Francis being selected as the 2013 Person of the Year. This doesn’t mean Kim is TIME’s Person of the Year. Ever since the campaign computers started raising the odds of victory from near even to something like surefire, Obama had been thinking a lot about what it meant to win without the lightning-in-a-bottle quality of that first national campaign. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Two prominent business leaders also made the cut: Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, along with the Higgs Boson — the particle of the year — and the three scientists who discovered it. TIME Reveals Its Short List for Person of the Year 2012. Person of the Year is an issue of the United States magazine Time that has come out each year since 1927.

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