The Illusory Middle

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By Victor Navasky

This article appeared in the September 15, 2008 edition of The Nation.

August 28, 2008

Denver

Think of the Democratic convention as a series of circles. At the center is the bull's-eye: the convention itself, the delegates assembled at the Pepsi Center, where the public action takes place.

Among the circles, there are the funders (one of whom complained to me that "there is plenty of money at this convention--enough to make the difference in, say, twenty close Congressional races. The problem is, there are more than seventy-five close Congressional races, and there's no real forum here to work out a strategy on who gets what").

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About Victor Navasky

Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation, was the magazine's editor from 1978 to 1995 and publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. He is currently the director of the George Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism at Columbia University. His books include Kennedy Justice, the American Book Award winner Naming Names and, most recently, A Matter of Opinion. more...
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