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"[\n\n](http://blog.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/Alrod%20Full%202.jpg)\n\nThe two video clips below tell you just about everything you need to know about where the presidential slugfest stands at the moment. In essence, it\u2019s role reversal time: Team Obama, so often high-flying and heartstring-tugging, is going sharply negative on Romney\u2019s record as governor. Team Romney, so often negative and tactical, is taking a moment to saunter down the high road and bask in the accomplishment of becoming the official nominee.\n\nHere\u2019s Obama strategist David Alrod hammering Romney on the Today Show this morning. As I write, Alrod is holding a press conference on the same topic at the State House in Boston.\n\n\n\n And here\u2019s the gauzy, dramatic Romney video laying out his basic frame as the nominee. It\u2019s an uplifting bit of cinema that plays to our higher feelings about America\u2014and it\u2019s straight out of the Obama \u201908 playbook.\n\n\n\nWill these roles reverse again? Surely. And they will reverse back. But fighting about who\u2019s positive and who\u2019s negative\u2014at any particular moment\u2014is part of the fun for both sides.\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\nFive Points About Politico\u2019s Hatchet Job On NYT and WaPo\n\nHunger Reads: The Coming Koch Bonanza and Romney\u2019s Own Cronyism Issue\n\nSeven New Conspiracy Theories! How the Radical Fringe Will Freak Over the New Obama Biography\n\nThe Death Race Summer Field Guide: What You Can Ignore\u2014And What You Can\u2019t\u2014in Politics This Summer\n\nFollow Reid Cherlin on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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