The Obama campaign was also frustrated with former President Bill Clinton, for his compliments on Romney's business career, and Newark mayor Cory Booker, who said that criticisms of Romney's business career were 'nauseating'. Daley, Obama's former White House Chief of Staff, acknowledged that the Obama team considered proposing to the President a plan to switch running mates, but opted not to do so when they determined it would not provide an advantage. Īccording to the authors, senior advisers to Obama advocated replacing Joe Biden as nominee for Vice President of the United States with Hillary Clinton. The authors treated their interview subjects with alcohol in a private suite or restaurant to get them to open up. The book relies on over 400 sources, most of whom are anonymous. As they did for Game Change, Halperin and Heilemann conducted in-depth interviews with the candidates, their aides, and members of the Washington, D.C. Double Down was released on November 5, 2013.įollowing the success of Game Change, and its film adaptation, Penguin Press gave Mark Halperin and John Heilemann a $5 million advance payment in 2010 to write a book on the 2012 presidential election. It is the sequel to Game Change, which explored the 2008 United States presidential election.

The book, published by Penguin Press, is a behind-the-scenes narrative of the Obama and Romney campaigns. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann speaking about their book at Miller Center, January 8, 2014ĭouble Down: Game Change 2012 is a book written by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2012 United States presidential election, in which Barack Obama was re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Mitt Romney.

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