David Broder on Meet the Press, 2005. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images. It is not too much to say that the death of The Washington Post’s David Broder—at 81, after a long battle with diabetes—means the end of an era in political journalism and, in a larger sense, in American life. That is a cliché that David—with his passionate centrism, meticulous attention to detail, endless patience for probing the subtleties of public opinion, and determination to popularize the findings of scholarly political scientists—would undoubtedly have deplored as hype. But it seems the only reasonable thing to say all the same.
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