Campaign photo diary: Bruising battle

Puppet candidates exchange jabs — and more revealing moments on the trail

Bruising battle
(Image credit: AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Lynn Armstrong Coffin and Eric Papalini (not pictured) of PunchingPoliticians.com hold puppets of Mitt Romney and President Obama boxing before a Romney campaign rally at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., on Sept. 20. The company also sells boxing puppets modeled after Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, an elephant, and a donkey.

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