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The Perils of the Front-Runner in a Horse Race

Calvin Trillin

December 14, 2011

Though Romney was leading right out of the gate, He’s also a guy some conservatives hate. But all other entries they managed to find Were scratched from the start or have fallen behind. So now they’ve decided that Newt is a whiz— The horse that they’re backing, corrupt as he is. Thus Gingrich, now galloping (though he’s quite husky), May make Romney look like the late Edmund Muskie.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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