• Garry Wills: Why 2012 Matters
  • Swingtime for Obama

    Michael Tomasky

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    The evangelicals on the right who will vote against Obama and the young people on the left who might be drawn to vote for him because of the gay marriage issue may, on balance, cancel each other out. The scales will likely be tipped depending on the views of voters in the center—a group including many who haven’t proclaimed any committed party allegiance, and see themselves as “independent.” Hence the importance, in this and every election, of those people in the middle.

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  • Sanford Schwartz: Surprising Young Lucian Freud
  • Diane Johnson: Mothers Beware!
  • Zadie Smith: The North West London Blues
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