Covering Barack: Lucky Number Seven

tm.jpgBarack Obama will be gracing the cover of Time…again. It’s the seventh time this year the magazine has put the senator front and center (McCain has only got the call twice).

Portfolio points to an interesting trend in Barack covers — it’s starting to appear as though magazine editors prefer to put him on the cover “without obscuring even a square millimeter of his face with cover lines.” And once again we wonder what the media will do if Obama loses.

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