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.